Award Winning Author Yasmin Shiraz to release YA Novel, Loyal, the prequel to Retaliation
Industry: Books
3rd book in Retaliation Series follows American Library Association Award Winner
Los Angeles, CA (PRUnderground) August 29th, 2016
Young adults and teen librarians across the US can rejoice because the Retaliation series has just given birth to its prequel, Loyal. Best selling Author, Yasmin Shiraz, recommits to the characters who were previously awarded when Retaliation was named a Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers.
Loyal tells the story of Tashera, a 13-year-old girl and her relationship with her brother Khalil who is 18. When Khalil is shot and left for dead at the front door, Tashera wants to know why and who is Khalil trying to protect.
“I wanted to write a story that honors the close relationships between brothers and sisters but also shows the challenges of those relationships. Knowing Khalil was shot as a part of a gang situation gave me the opportunity to explore how Tashera would react,” Shiraz states.
Loyal is shorter than the typical Retaliation novel by design. “Once Retaliation was recognized by the ‘Reluctant Reader’ community, I wanted to write an introductory book to make them love these characters enough to give Retaliation a try,” Shiraz states.
Loyal will be available as an e-book on Amazon.com on August 28th. Trade paperback as well as distribution through Barnes and Noble and Apple will be available in September.
Loyal is published by Rolling Hills Press, a Division of Still Eye Rise Media. E-book ISBN: 978-1-941797-07-5. Retail: $5.99
About Yasmin Shiraz
Shiraz is a best selling and award winning author of several books, including Retaliation: A Novel which was a Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers by the American Library Association as well as the critically acclaimed, The Blueprint for My Girls. She is the award winning Writer/Director of Can She Be Saved? and as an empowerment speaker and youth activist, she has spoken at over 100 colleges and universities as well as non-profit organizations. She is a trained sociologist having received her Bachelors of Arts in Sociology from Hampton University and her Masters of Arts in Sociology from Morehead State University.
About Still Eye Rise Media
Still Eye Rise Media is a multimedia production company that specializes in creating African American content in the form of books, films and digital media. We are the publishers of the best selling Tisha Ariel Nikkole series, the producers of the award winning Can She Be Saved documentary film as well as the award winning teen suicide prevention web series, Sources.
