Linda Dominique Grosvenor was born and raised in New York by a parent of Caribbean descent. She has cornered success and an attentive audience with her novel Like Boogie On Tuesday. Her highly anticipated novel, Like Boogie On Tuesday won her a legion of new fans.

The author confides that she has always used writing as a way of dealing with her teenage angst. She is well known for her poetry that has an enormous presence in popular African American publications such as Rhapsody Magazine and Mosaic Literary Magazine as well as on the world wide web.

Dominique was inspired to write Like Boogie On Tuesday when it seemed that people in everyday conversation still didn't realize how deeply family and upbringing rooted itself and affects them in life, love and other instances. Thus she wanted to tell a story from four perspectives, allowing the actions of both the men and women in the story to unconsciously convey the residue their upbringing left on each of their lives.

Life, love and family have always been extremely important for the author who normally finds herself lending her time to domestic violence causes and spearheading other sock/food/clothing drives and fundraising efforts that give back to the community at large.

She relocated to North Carolina, has a college age son, still considers herself a newlywed and is at present awaiting the return of her estranged cat. For fun she likes to paint and coins herself as "one of those hopeful romantics who sit around on park benches in the rain and toss breadcrumbs at the pigeons to keep them away from my pad when I'm writing."

Dominique is currently working on the sequel to Like Boogie On Tuesday and concurrently working on a screenplay. Her website averages one thousand hits per month and hosts her monthly column on love and relationships as well as a relationship discussion group.

Confidently she says of her work, "I pass on the fluff, I don't write to entertain, I write to change lives." And she hopes you like that just fine.

Ms. Grosvenor believes that there is a need to deal with the struggles that people contemplating divorce and remarriage face. She also believes that we need to loose the negative stigma attached to remarriage. "We need to embrace each other lovingly and receive what is His individual will for our lives."

She believes that her hands are anointed to write about touchy subjects such as divorce and remarriage, and willingly allows the Lord to minister through her. She also believes that many people have the wrong concept of marriage and thus engage in it blindly and foolishly, creating not only an unstable environment for themselves, but their children.

Ms. Grosvenor is pleased to have her book crossing the line into mainstream fiction, as she feels that many will be touched and emotionally healed reading her book. She is working on many project but chose Sometimes I Cry as her debut because she felt the urgent need to confront the divorce and remarriage issue.

She is a member of the African American Online Writer's Guild and the Poetry Society of America.

The Hamptons
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ISBN: 0974171425
Format: Hardcover, 198pp
Pub. Date: July 2004
Publisher: Sadorian Publications, LLC

Joelle Sinclair is a self-professed art lover who is determined to start over after her divorce becomes final from her philandering husband Arnez. When she leaves New York City and moves into her sister's lavish beachfront home in the Hamptons, she takes a managerial position at the posh, upscale Kenneth Oberlin Gallery to busy herself and determine what she really wants from life. The last thing on her agenda after losing her ball and chain is a man; until she meets eligible bachelor Jabari Mitchell. What starts out as a mere summer fling turns into something hot and heavy. But life is about to teach Joelle a crucial lesson; when something seems too good to be true...it usually is.

Pretty Boys
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ISBN: 0974171492
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: February 2004
Publisher: Sadorian Publications

In Pretty Boys (three sassy and entertaining novellas) Linda Dominique Grosvenor gives readers a look into the lives of three different classes of women with one single dilemma; pretty boys.
In "Sweet Tooth," Shanta Barrett and her sister Abby listen to the popular call-in radio show Thirty-Something religiously. On a dare she's fixed up on a blind date with an eligible caller. He's good-looking, charming and self-employed, but Shanta is a determined woman with high expectations, will her gorgeous date be able to live up to them?

"Indian Summer," finds Phyllis Henderson struggling to get rid of her on again off again boyfriend Rod, when she meets her single neighbor, handsome biker Levi Jones. She's had her fill of men, but when her apartment is burglarized, her neighbor chivalrously comes to her rescue. However, Phyllis is still convinced that all men want one thing. Will Levi disprove or confirm her suspicions?

In the title story "Pretty Boys," Phaedra Dean finds that even when she's made the transition from unknown to the glamorous life of a supermodel, one thing didn’t change, her affinity for scrumptious-looking men. Men have always been plentiful in her life, but when her ex-photographer is murdered and she becomes the prime suspect, her boy toy Julian proves one thing, loving the one she’s with may not be the best option.

Like Boogie on Tuesday
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ISBN: 1583144420
Format: Mass Market Paperback, 448pp
Pub. Date: December 2003
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation

Like Boogie on Tuesday is the story of 2 sisters, Nina Madison and Troi Singleton who struggle to leave behind their oppressive upbringing and their dissatisfaction with life that includes an alcoholic mother and sometimes absent father. Nina and Troi are left wondering who they can trust. Nina finds herself in one compromising relationship after another and vows to never love again until she meets womanizing pretty-boy Tim Richardson. Troi believes that her marriage of 3 years to her husband Vaughn will last forever until his devastating secret is uncovered. Tim Richardson is a catch for sure, but while balancing his goals and his craving for companionship, he allows Nina to touch places in him once forbidden. Is Tim enough to renew Nina's faith in men? And will the revelation that Vaughn shares with Troi waver her faith in love?

The Plural Thing: Spiritually Preparing for Your Soul Mate
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ISBN: 0974171433
Format: Hardcover, 185pp
Pub. Date: November 2003
Publisher: Sadorian Publications, LLC
 

The Plural Thing: Spiritually Preparing for Your Soulmate is the highly awaited non-fiction title by author Linda Dominique Grosvenor. Grab a copy of The Plural Thing and you'll be enlightened by moving topics such as "One Lonely Road," "Mirror Mirror," and "The Spiritual Rules" for dating. Appropriate for Christians of all ages.

The Cradle Robbers: Bloom
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ISBN: 0974171417
Format: Paperback, 125pp
Pub. Date: October 2003
Publisher: Sadorian Publications, LLC

Lily Manchester's husband wooed her with carnations up until the day that he enlisted in the Army and never came back. Eleven years later she has picked up the pieces of her life and is quite content with her floral shop Bloom in Bliss, North Carolina until an irresistible young delivery man named Alex James set his sight on her. This is book #2 in The Cradle Robbers series (first in the series is The Cradle Robbers: Misdemeanor by Tanya Marie Lewis).

Fever
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ISBN: 1583142614
Format: Paperback, 352pp
Pub. Date: January 2003
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
Barnes & Noble Sales Rank: 387,802

Troi finds her loyalty to her best friend Carla on the line when an inappropriate attraction to her friend's husband spins their world out of control. Nina is married to the man she loves but will ghosts from his past come and uproot their sensative future? Sam is a family man who fears he may have married the wrong woman, but will a secret that his wife's been hiding be the demise of his second marriage.

Sometimes I Cry
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ISBN: 1886433933
Format: Mass Market Paperback, 288pp
Pub. Date: August 2002
Publisher: UpStream Publications

Read the first chapter (text from Original Self Published Version

Aaliyah Barnwell in her tumultuous quest for love finds exactly what she doesn't need, "a married man!" Benjamin Braithwait is charming, articulate and very much married. Their worlds collide when a trip to the bookstore sends them down the aisle of curiosity, self-discovery and infidelity. "There's nothing a married man can do for me," Aaliyah says adamantly, while struggling with her desires and her spirituality in a way that is open and honest. It was not her purpose to have an affair. So, how did it happen? How did she fall in love? Wasn't God enough? "Love always comes with sacrifices." Would she have to give up the one thing she wants most? Without coming across as preachy, this story touches on the theme of adultery, divorce, remarriage and the struggles that a multi-faceted woman (who in the midst of all this turmoil, rededicates her life to God) suffers. This refreshing story allows "the other woman" to tell what she feels, what she thinks, while fighting to keep the one thing she desires within her grasp, love.

Love Lingers
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ISBN: 0970010265
Format: Paperback, 110pp
Pub. Date: February 2002
Publisher: Sadorian Publications, LLC

Love Lingers is a collection of love poems by bestselling author Linda Dominique Grosvenor. In it she prefaces the collection by sharig, "although some naive souls say that  I'm too intense and tend to lay it on a bit thick, lose yourself in my words and allow them to erase some of your preconceived notions about me, yourself and someone you love. Allow the words to tear down the walls that surround you until they are low enough for someone to peel back the layers, see inside your heart and love you terribly."
 

Related Links

Read Ms. Grosvenor's AALBC.com Book Reviews of:
Temptation by Victoria Christopher Murray

The Lady, Her Lover and Her Lord by T.D. Jakes

Shoes on the Otha' Foot by Hunter Hayes

No More Sheets - Juanita Bynum

Linda Dominique Grosvenor Official Homepage
http://www.grosvenoronline.com

 

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