THOUGH DEBORAH L. KING has been a writer and storyteller her whole life, publishing her first short story at seven years old, she took only 32 years to complete the story of Glory Bishop. The novels were published in 2019 and 2021 as Glory Bishop and Glory Unbound. The two-part story tells the coming-of-age of a Chicago teenager growing up in the 1980s. Glory Unbound is a finalist for the CWA 2022 book of the year. Deborah’s third novel, Mary Not Broken, is the prequel to Glory Bishop and tells the story of Glory’s mother. Mary Not Broken has been published on Amazon’s Kindle Vella, one episode at a time, and is due out in paperback in 2023.
Deborah loves storms, champagne, Old Time Radio, and 70s Blues and Soul. As a fiction writer, she loves the work of Octavia Butler, classic Stephen King, Peter David, and the illustrations of Dan DeCarlo. Thanks to an interesting childhood, she’s afraid of escalators, bill collectors, and sometimes fresh produce.
Along with being a Vulcan and a bread-bender, Deborah enjoys cartoons, baking, photography, and Star Trek. Born and raised in Chicago, she has managed to achieve all of her childhood dreams—artist, teacher, baker, photographer, model, truck-driver, writer— and still lives in the area with her husband and two youngest children. According to her daughter, she has “literally aced her life!”
Hi Deborah L. King
My name is Elijah King. I’m a literary assistant at P English Literature (PEL). It’s a pleasure connecting with you, and I would like to introduce you to our literary organization.
Established in 2020, P English Literature is an art and literary organization officially registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission – RC 7923553. It was founded by Peter Okonkwo, whose literature works, was in November of 2024, endorsed under Global Talent by Arts Council England as “Exceptionally Promising” in the field of literature. Since our inception, we have interviewed over 800 authors from different parts of the world, including prominent and emerging ones, covering all genres of literature, and have featured in total of over 1000 literature works.
We’ve been recognized as the first-ever international BookTube show in Africa that features authors from around the world. We have been a voice to authors seeking exposure for their works, and we promote literature through our extensive literary activities including organizing book festivals, book club meetings, author interviews, book reviews, literary competitions, feast of books and cultures events, opinion commentaries, writer’s conferences, open mics and a host of other literary activities. You can check samples of our interview with the renowned 13 million plus bestselling author of the holocaust survival story, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, by Heather Morris, and many more samples on our channel’s page.
I’m writing to you because we are currently looking for authors to get featured in the September/ October’s Edition of Author Interview on our show. I’m curious to know if you would love to come on our show in an interview to talk about your book(s). If you are interested, you can respond to this message, and Kenny Elisha, the Head of Literary Assistant, will send you a detailed author interview invitation and a form to schedule an interview. You’ll get interviewed by our founder and host, Peter Okonkwo, or the co-host, Cyndi Brec, or both of them. While our primary interview is conducted via Zoom, you may, however, want to schedule a physical interview with Peter if you are located in the UK, or with Cyndi, if you are in the United States.
I would like you to look our show up on YouTube by searching “P. English Literature” and let me know what you think of it. Plus, if you have any questions. Also, because the interviews on PEL are promotional interviews, we recently waived our appearance fees and encouraged our featured guests to consider donating to support our literature course.
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Thank you,
Elijah King
Literary Assistant VI, PEL