Donald Peebles, Author of HIDDEN FIRES

About Me

My name is Donald Peebles Jr. and I am a resident of Jamaica, New York. I am a writer who had poems and short stories published in WRITES OF PASSAGE USA, SBC, SHOUTOUT! and URBAN DIALOGUE. My short story "Social Studies" is one of the inclusions in the gay anthology FLESH TO FLESH, edited by author Lee Hayes and published by Strebor Books. My first novel, HIDDEN FIRES, will be published by Deja Vu Publications and slated for release on December 19, 2008. I will be working on my second novel, THE SLAVE GIRL, very shortly. I am featured in the documentary "Being Proud Black & LGBT in America", which was written, produced, and directed by my good friend, Monalisa McCombs.
The front and back of HIDDEN FIRES (Deja Vu Publications, 2008). If you all want to unearth my HIDDEN FIRES before the slated publication date of December 19, 2008, please feel free to pre-order the novel at Amazon (www.amazon.com). By the way, it won't hurt to drop by the Deja Vu Publications website (www.dejavupublications.com).
The logo for Deja Vu Publications:
The ad of Deja Vu Publications:
My official literary coming out as the newest AUTHOR of the Deja Vu Publications Family. Pictured from left to right: Carmen Noboa-Espinal (author of UPTOWN MENACE: TO HELL AND BACK), Sexy (author of A BETTER TOUCH, TWOFOLD and CHAINED and the CEO of Deja Vu Publications), and myself (author of the upcoming HIDDEN FIRES):
The Deja Vu Publications advertisement will be featured in the December 2008 issue of Don Diva Magazine. Sexy, Carmen, and I are on our way! Thank you, Tiffany Chiles, for the love you are showing us:
I was at Borders at Columbus Circle (NY) getting my autograph of HOLLYWOOD WIVES and MARRIED LOVERS by Jackie Collins herself, one of my most favorite authors of all time and inspirations for my own writing.
I am at the book signing for Latin Temptress (Ana Rodriguez), author of the hot novel THE ENCOUNTER, at Sexy's corner on 106th Street and 3rd Avenue. I was playing Superheroes and Villains with Damion, Sexy's son. I look like I am 6 or 7 months pregnant with no clue of who the father is. Better yet, Jenny Craig or NutriSystem ought to pay me budda and chedda to become their newest spokesperson like Kirstie Alley, Valerie Bertinelli, Queen Latifah, Marie Osmond, and Jillian Barberie. I got to get my Black gay badookadunk back into Ballys in the mornings and work this fat off before my book comes out on DECEMBER 19, 2008:
This is the first version of the flyers made eloquently by Dashawn Taylor, Essence bestselling author of FROM POVERTY TO POWER MOVES and KISSED BY THE DEVIL and one-time contestant of BET's THE ULTIMATE HUSTLER. These flyers refer to the 1st Annual Deja Vu Publications Christmas Party and the book release party for HIDDEN FIRES on Friday, December 19, 2008:

My paternal aunt, Rogina Wanda Peebles (1961-2008), will always be missed.
My short story "Social Studies" is one of the featured stories in this gay erotic anthology.
Below is my first radio Internet podcast interview - Beautiful Boyz of Prides World Podcast Show hosted by BBOP (Craig Gipson) on Saturday July 12, 2008 and aired on Tuesday July 15, 2008: It is on Tantalizing Tuesdays (Episode 101)
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My Interests

Reading, writing, drawing, watching television, talking on the phone, working out at the gym, spending time with family and friends, gossiping, praying to my God, going to church, frequenting book and music stores, taking weekly trips to the library, history, listening to music, Afrocentricity, and African-American/Black History.

Although I am not Hispanic nor Latino, I do have nothing but love, peace, joy, and happiness for my Latino brothers and Latina sisters. I do know that African, African-American, African-Caribbean, and Latino peoples have more in common than apart. Please DO NOT listen to the mass media who want to DIVIDE AND CONQUER Blacks and Latinos because they see our unity and strength as a cultural, political, racial, and social threat.

I'd like to meet:

I want to meet writers, poets, authors, spoken word artists, screenwriters, television writers, soap opera scribes, journalists, tabloid writers, celebrity authors, playwrights, erotica writers/authors/poets, porn writers, editors, book reviewers, literary critics, librarians, archivists, historians, book club members, publishers, literary buffs, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, Same-Gender-Loving (SGL), queer, and questioning people, Afrocentric cultural nationalists, activists, stutterers, cartoonists, comic book illustrators and creators, spiritual people of faith, and liberation theologians.

Music:

R&B, soul, hip-hop/rap, disco, Oldies But Goodies, jazz, gospel, and house. I listen mostly to 98.7 KISS-FM, 107.5 WBLS FM, 105.3 WKTU FM, HOT 97.1 FM and POWER 105.1 FM.

Movies:

I love to watch films with good plots, characterizations, and acting, so I can say that I don't have any favorite movies since I watched so many. I am partial to African-American, LGBT/Same-Gender-Loving, and chick flick films, movies, and cinema.

Television:

All My Children, One Life to Live, General Hospital, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Eyewitness News, Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, America's Funniest Home Videos, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Desperate Housewives, Brothers and Sisters, Dancing With the Stars, The Game, My9 News, America's Next Top Model, Private Practice, Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy, The Women's Murder Club, The Biggest Loser, Family Guy, The Tavis Smiley Show, Soul Train, and Like It Is.

Books:

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My book reading list from July 2008 - September 2009

Heroes:

God, Jesus Christ, the African-American Community, the Black Community, the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Community, the Same-Gender-Loving (SGL) Black Community, authors/poets/writers/screenwriters/television writers, Elizabeth Leslie (my mother), Eugene Leon Peebles and Sally Slaughter Peebles (my late paternal grandparents), Rogina Wanda Peebles (my late paternal aunt), Cynthia Dotson (my 2nd grade teacher), Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Minister Louis Farrakhan, Ellen Holly, Diahann Carroll, Bill Cosby, Darnell Williams, Debbi Morgan, Vanessa Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, Halle Berry, Langston Hughes, Alex Haley, Jackie Collins, E. Lynn Harris, James Earl Hardy, Lee Hayes, Zane, Deborah Cardona (Sexy), Sheila Copeland, Senator Barack Obama, Bob Harper, Jillian Michaels, Kim Lyons, Ali Vincent, and all of the other Biggest Loser contestants from Seasons 1 to 5.

My Blog

Cliff and Clair Huxtables Grandson Plays Gay in Noah Arcs Movie

I wonder how Bill Cosby is responding to the fact that his former onscreen grandson, Gary LeRoi Gray, is playing a homosexual in the upcoming film NOAH'S ARC: JUMPING THE BROOM, which will premiere ...
Posted by Donald Peebles, Author of HIDDEN FIRES on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:46:00 PST

White America FINALLY Convicts O.J. Simpson In The Devilish 13th Anniversary of Murder Acquital

I am not surprised that former NFL star, Heisman Trophy winner, CBS Sports commentator, Hertz spokesperson, actor, and the most famous African-American Yet Colorless Personality of the 20th Century ...
Posted by Donald Peebles, Author of HIDDEN FIRES on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:59:00 PST

Lisa Raye Taking A Breather From Hollywoods Phonyness

I am going to say this and people can hate on me for stating the obvious but Black Hollywood is showing their true ass to Lisa Raye now that she is no longer married to Michael Misick, the premier o...
Posted by Donald Peebles, Author of HIDDEN FIRES on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:41:00 PST

Pepas New Tell-All Juicy Memoir

When I heard that Pepa Sandy Denton) wrote a tell-all book, I could not wait to put my hands on it. I have not read it though and plan to do so. I have been a fan of Salt'n'Pepa sin...
Posted by Donald Peebles, Author of HIDDEN FIRES on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:02:00 PST

Janet Jackson Needs Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis Back to Make Her a Phenom for 2009

I know that I am going to have some die-hard fans of Janet Damita Jo Jackson coming after me but I am going to say this: Janet needs to go back to her former producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis...
Posted by Donald Peebles, Author of HIDDEN FIRES on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:21:00 PST

Black SGL Author Married to the Urban Fiction World

Before I was picked up by Sexy to become her second author for Deja Vu Publications in June, I never thought that I would be an urban fiction author in my wildest dreams. Since the age of 12 ...
Posted by Donald Peebles, Author of HIDDEN FIRES on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:13:00 PST

MoNique Claims She Was Molested By Older Brother

I couldn't believe it when I read about actress/comic/author Mo'Nique confessed about being molested as a child by her oldest brother in the October 2008 issue of ESSENCE. I never knew. ...
Posted by Donald Peebles, Author of HIDDEN FIRES on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:24:00 PST

Seeking African Roots in Puerto Rico

I once stated that when my first book hits big, I would take a trip to Puerto Rico with my best friend, Chris. That was to sit in the sun. Years later, I still want to visit P...
Posted by Donald Peebles, Author of HIDDEN FIRES on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:39:00 PST

Hispanic Heritage Month Is Here

September 15 - October 15 marks Hispanic Heritage Month in the United States. Although I am African-American and not Hispanic/Latino, I do honor the achievements, accomplishments, and contribu...
Posted by Donald Peebles, Author of HIDDEN FIRES on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:30:00 PST

Tyler Perry Wants Wider (WHITE) Audience

Yes I said it! Tyler Perry does want a White audience after TBS ordered 100 episodes of the hit series THE HOUSE OF PAYNE and Lion Gate Films has made lots of money from the "Madea" films - "Diary o...
Posted by Donald Peebles, Author of HIDDEN FIRES on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:19:00 PST