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Love Pour Over Me, Portia, Love Has Many Faces, Spiral, Gada's Glory, Gregory The Lionhearted, Awaken Blessings of Inner Love, Rosetta The Talent Show Queen and Long Walk Up's book author, Denise Turney, has over 36 years of writing experience. She is a full-time writer whose works have appeared in: Essence, Ebony, The Network Journal, Madame Noire, America Online, Bahiyah Woman, Today's Black Woman, Parade, Sisters In Style, Your Church Magazine, Modern Dad Magazine, KaNupepa, The Trenton Times, Family Times, The Preacher's Magazine, Black Living, Princeton, New Jersey's Business and Entertainment Weekly - US 1, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Pif, Q, The Trenton State College Literary Review, North Carolina University's Literary Journal, Obsidian II and various other magazines and newspapers across the nation. African American author, Denise Turney, has appeared on radio and television stations around the United States. Denise has spoken at major festivals, conferences, colleges and universities, including Black Herstory, Spelman College, Emory University, Take Our Daughters to Work Day, Philadelphia Bible College and the Philadelphia Community College. She is a newspaper and magazine columnist and the editor of the literary periodical The Book Lover's Haven which you can subscribe to by clicking Subscribe BLH.

Denise host the international radio program Off The Shelf Book Talk Radio which airs on Blog Talk Radio live from 11AM-12PM on Saturday and 24/7 throughout the rest of the week. She has interviewed New York Times bestselling authors like Zane, Francis Ray, Roland Martin, Patricia Haley-Glass, Omar Tyree and Tracey Price Thompson and Grammy Award nominee, Awiatka.

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Denise is a mother and a co-founder of Bucks County Pennsylvania's first African American owned and operated drug and alcohol intervention program - No Longer Bound. She is a former volunteer in Big Brothers/Big Sisters and Girls, Inc. She is an entrepreneur, a businesswoman and a civic and community volunteer. Her current and former memberships include: The National Women's Executive Association, Black Women Entrepreneurs, You Are Not Alone (YANA), The Philadelphia Writer's Organization, The International Black Writer's Organization, and The International Women's Writing Guild.

Denise is listed in Who's Who, 100 Most Admired African American Women, and various novelists directories. She is the author of the new and emotionally gripping story - Love Pour Over Me, author of the motivational book Long Walk Up, author of the the historic mystery, Spiral, author of the young adult novel, Rosetta The Talent Show Queen, author of the multicultural celebrity mystery, Love Has Many Faces and the author of the story of a successful African American defense attorney dealing with breast cancer - Portia. Denise Turney is also the author of the non-fiction self-help book, Awaken Blessings of Inner Love. Additionally, Denise is a contributor to the book, Proverbs For The People. This passionate author is currently working on her eighth and ninth novels.

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EARLY YEARS: African American books and urban books author, Denise Turney, attended South-Young High School in Knoxville, Tennessee. While there faculty voted her to be one of four students to attend Girls' State in Nashville. An outdoors, nature and sports lover, Denise was one of Tennessee's top high school and one of the city of Knoxville's leading cross-country runners. After high school, Denise attended The University of Tennessee. She served on active duty in the United States Navy from 1984 - 1988. While serving in the Navy, she earned two Navy Achievement Medals within four years. She is a member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated.

BACKGROUND: Denise Turney is the third cousin of Norris Turney, a jazz musician who played lead saxophone in Duke Ellington's Orchestra. She is the great-granddaughter of Rueben Skinner, one of Ohio and Kentucky's early and top African American show horse trainers. Denise is the sister of Eric Turney, an actor and professional singer who makes his home Orlando, Florida. She is the sister Reverend Richard Turney, pastor of Rest Haven Baptist Church, and Reverend Dr. Clark Turney, youth pastor and family counselor. Her sister and super good friend, Adrianne, is a retired police officer and current school teacher. Denise is the daughter of Richard Turney, a pioneer and reportedly the first African American to successfully own and operate a business in South Knoxville. It was through her father that Denise first learned to dream. As a young girl, Denise loved going to NHRA drag races with her father and siblings and watching her father win races while driving his white Austin Healy. Her mother, Doris, transitioned when Denise was a young girl. Her father transitioned in 2011. Today they are among Denise's angels, the people Denise thinks about whenever she sees a butterfly or large birds.

KEEP IN MIND: YOU are VERY important to Denise! She loves to hear from visitors to the site.

Denise encourages you to treat yourself with as much respect, love and tenderness that you would give to your very best friend. Her favorite scriptures are: "He persevered because he saw him who is invisible." -- Hebrews 11:27b (NIV) , "You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised." -- Hebrews 10:36 (NIV) and Psalm 23.

Love Pour Over Me (New Book), Long Walk Up, Love Has Many Faces, Portia and Spiral and Rosetta's Great Hope are the beginnings of great works created by this exciting professional writer. To our customers - Thank you for supporting Denise's books!

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