Satisfy My Soul

PRAISE FOR WAITING IN VAINA #1 Blackboard bestseller and a Washington Post Critic’s Choice“[Waiting In Vain] is in danger of remaining a work perceived primarily as yetanother black romantic tale… . The love story is interesting,but not the most compelling element of the novel: What is intriguingis the assurance of the voice, the strength of characterization,and the clear redefinition of the Caribbean novel.”—The Washington Post Book World“A STUNNING DEBUT…IF YOU’VE EVER DARED TO FOLLOW YOUR PASSION,THEN YOU MUST READ WAITING IN VAIN… .CHANNER HAS THE EAR OF A POET AND THE HEART OF A LOVER.”—E. LYNN HARRIS“A LAVISH AND LUSH READ FILLED WITH SPICE, SASS, AND PASSION.”—DIANE MCKINNEY-WHETSTONE“EROTIC AND SENSUAL … THE PROSE IS PASSIONATE, SEXUAL, AND HONEST.”—Today’s Black WomanWAITING IN VAIN “IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A GIFTED WRITERDECIDES TO GET ROMANTIC.”—Time Out New York

Colin Channer is the author of two novels, a novella, and many short stories. His first novel, Waiting in Vain, was selected as a 1998 Critic’s Choice by the Washington Post. It was also excerpted in Hot Spots- The Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction. His novella, I’m Still Waiting, was published in the bestselling volume Got to Be Real. Mr. Channer is founder and artistic director of the Calabash International Literary Festival, the only annual literary festival in the English-speaking Caribbean . A naturalized American, he was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and lives with his family in New York. He has taught fiction writing in London and New York and is the bass player for the reggae band Pipecock Jaxxon.

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