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COUNTRY: United States
NATIONALITY: American
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Born in VA; married; has children.
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Writer. Former teacher of English in middle school and high school; instructional coach for virtual teachers; works as a freelance developmental and copy editor.
MEMBER:Crime Writers of Color, Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, and the Women’s National Book Association.
AWARDS:Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Emerging Writers of Color, Sisters in Crime, 2020.
WRITINGS
Her Name Is Knight is being adapted for television by Endeavor Content and Ink Factory.
SIDELIGHTS
Yasmin Angoe is a first-generation Ghanaian American who grew up in two cultural worlds. She is the daughter of immigrants from Ghana who came to the United States for college—business for her mother and architecture for her father. As a small child, Yasmin went to live with her grandmother in Ghana so that her mother could finish her education. After a couple of years, she returned to the United States and her parents.
Speaking with Jason Schott on the online Brooklyn Digest, Angoe commented on this episode: “I straddled between two very different worlds, deeply entrenched in my Ghanian culture, but yearning to be like my American neighbors and have Pizza Hut and mac and cheese for dinner instead of kontomire, spinach stew and rice, or peanut butter soup and fufu. I lost my native languages (ga, Twi, and Ewe—three of the many dialects spoken in Ghana). I attended the local school, made American friends, and became more and more assimilated.” Angoe went on to teach English in high schools and middle schools for a number of years before she tried her hand at writing, inspired by her Ghanian heritage.
Her first novel, Her Name Is Knight was bought by Thomas & Mercer in a six-figure deal, and the novel is in development for television in a further seven-figure deal. The thriller features the heroine Aninyeh, a chieftain’s daughter in Ghana who was kidnapped and sold into slavery when she was fourteen, following the slaughter of her family. She eventually managed to escape and was found by Delphine Knight then travelled to London. She was ultimately adopted by Delphine and Noble, her husband, who is the leader of the African Tribal Council, also called the Tribe. This business group is focused on uniting all the African countries in one strong economic power. Aninyeh shortens her name to Nena and is trained to become an elite assassin, who takes care of the enemies of the Tribe. Now living in Miami, Florida, Nena kills those listed as enemies of the Tribe without remorse. However, when she is charged with killing a federal attorney for whom she has developed feelings, she balks at the task. And then, learning that a recent member of the Tribe is the very man who attacked her village and killed her parents, she plots revenge on this person.
“Thriller fans will cheer Aninyeh every step of the way,” noted a Publishers Weekly reviewer of this debut novel. Similarly, a Kirkus Reviews critic termed Her Name Is Knight a “parable of reclaiming personal and tribal identity by seizing power at all costs.” Likewise, Schott, writing on the online Brooklyn Digest observed: “This is a character rarely seen in genre fiction, as she is a Black woman, written by a Black woman. Nena is a heroine on par with classic protagonists like Jack Reacher, Ethan Hunt, Jason Bourne, and Jack Ryan.”
In a Readers Entertainment interview with Jocie McKade, Angoe commented on her inspiration for the novel: “I always enjoy writing about women and for years I never saw women who look like me or are from other countries in the thriller and action genre as the lead person. Those are the genres I devour so I decided to create a woman who could move as well as any guy if not better. I also wanted a story that was culturally rich. I was also dealing with grief during the time I was writing this book, so I wanted to explore that as well. It’s a lot.”
Speaking on the Big Thrill website, the author further commented on what she hopes readers take away from this novel: “I’d like readers to close the book feeling introduced and intrigued with a new kind of leading lady in the action thriller genre: a Ghanaian Black woman who knows how to save herself…and others she’s not being paid to kill.”
(open new)Nena returns in They Come at Knight. In this volume, a mole has infiltrated the African Tribal Council and upends its plan to assassinate their enemy, General Konate. The fiasco leads to the deaths of many of Nena’s Dispatch team members. She is sent on a mission to Gabon, where she discovers more acts of betrayal. A Kirkus Reviews writer suggested that the book offered “a second round of action-packed, high-casualty intrigue for professional assassin Nena Knight.” A critic in Internet Bookwatch described the volume as “action-adventure at its very best.”
In It Ends with Knight, the final installment in the “Nena Knight” series, Nena comes face to face with someone from her past. Bridget is a Frenchwoman who turned Nena over to traffickers years before. Now, Bridget is married to Frances Dubin, who plans to develop a gem mine in Latema, Tanzania. Members of the Tanzanian government see the potential for a financial windfall, so they align themselves with Dubin. Nena is sent to oversee the negotiations between Dubin’s allies and the miners, but a series of tragedies occurs. In an interview with Chandra Sparks Splond, contributor to the Black Fiction Addiction website, Angoe discussed the challenge of writing the book, stating: “How should Nena be at this point in her life, after going through what she had in the last two books and making the hard choices she had to make? How do those choices affect her and the people around her? How has she grown? How has she stayed the same? … I wanted to explore those questions and to see how Nena comes out on the other end of it.” An Internet Bookwatch reviewer noted that the book would be “of special appeal to readers with an interest in novels involving assassination, serial killers, and political thrillers.” “This avenger is tough,” asserted a contributor to Kirkus Reviews, writing about the series’s protagonist.
Not What She Seems is Angoe’s first standalone novel. Set in the American South, it stars Jacinda “Jac” Brodie, who has come back to her hometown of Brook Haven to care for her grandfather. Her move comes after she is betrayed by her former lover, Conrad Meckleson, who sabotaged her fellowship opportunity and is writing a book about her father’s suspicious death. In Brook Haven, her grandfather unexpectedly dies, and she secretly begins investigating the woman who now owns the land where he father was killed. A Kirkus Reviews critic suggested that the book revealed “endless skeletons in the family closet, all disclosed by a protagonist who makes one reckless move after another.” “Angoe grounds the plot’s surprising twists with lovable, fully realized characters,” asserted a reviewer in Publishers Weekly.(close new)
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Internet Bookwatch, November, 2022, review of They Come at Knight;December, 2023, review of It Ends with Knight.
Kirkus Reviews October 15, 2021, review of Her Name Is Knight; July 1, 2022, review of They Come at Knight;August 1, 2023, review of It Ends with Knight;July 1, 2024, review of Not What She Seems.
Publishers Weekly, September 27, 2021, review of Her Name Is Knight, p. 54; July 22, 2024, review of Not What She Seems, p. 45.
ONLINE
Big Thrill, https://www.thebigthrill.org/ (October 1, 2021), “‘Her Name Is Knight’ by Yasmin Angoe.”
Black Fiction Addiction, https://blackfictionaddiction.com/ (September 21, 2022), Chandra Sparks Splond, author interview; (September 8, 2023), Chandra Sparks Splond, author interview.
Bold Journey, https://boldjourney.com/ (September 26, 2023), author interview.
Brooklyn Digest, http://www.brooklyndigest.org/ (November 1, 2021), Jason Schott, review of Her Name Is Knight and author interview.
CanvasRebel, https://canvasrebel.com/ (August 7, 2023), author interview.
Deadline, https://deadline.com/ (January 26, 2021), Denise Petski, “‘Her Name Is Knight’ Series Adaptation Of Yasmin Angoe Novel in Works By Endeavor Content & Ink Factory In 7-Figure Deal.”
Readers Entertainment, https:// readersentertainment.com/ (November 1, 2021), Jocie McKade, “Behind the Words with Yasmin Angoe.”
Sisters in Crime website, https://www.sistersincrime.org/ (September 13, 2024), author interview.
South Carolina Voyager, https://southcarolinavoyager.com/ (January 12, 2023), author interview.
Writer Unboxed, https://writerunboxed.com/ (September 2, 2021), Crace Wymer, “Author Up Close: Yasmin Angoe—Just One More Thing;” (November 7, 2023), article by author.
Yasmin Angoe website, https://yasminangoe.com (September 13, 2024).
Yasmin Angoe is the Anthony-nominated author of the critically acclaimed thriller Her Name Is Knight of the Nena Knight series. She is a first-generation Ghanaian American and, in 2020, received the Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Emerging Writers of Color from Sisters in Crime.
Yasmin’s books were an Amazon Best Book of the Month for Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, and an Editor’s Pick. Her work has received numerous recognitions, was on a billboard in Times Square, Best Of lists, and a Library Journal Starred Review. The Nena Knight series was also optioned for a television series.
Her Name Is Knight has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, OprahDaily.com, POPSUGAR, Nerd Daily, the Washington Independent Review of Books, The Guardian, and other platforms.
Yasmin is a proud member of several prestigious organizations, such as Crime Writers of Color, Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, and the Women’s National Book Association.
Yasmin is a former English teacher and instructional coach, and lives in South Carolina with her husband and their kids.
Hailing from Northern Virginia, Yasmin Angoe is a first-generation Ghanaian American who grew up in two cultural worlds. She taught English in middle and high schools for years, served as an instructional coach for virtual teachers, and spent time as a freelance copy editor.
Genres: Thriller, Mystery
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Author Yasmin Angoe Talks ‘They Come at Knight’
September 21, 2022 by Chandra Sparks Splond
Yasmin Angoe is back with her highly anticipated sequel to Her Name Is Knight. I recently spoke with her about They Come at Knight.
Tell me about your latest book.
They Come at Knight is the second book of the Nena Knight series. In this installment, Nena is back on a new mission after a violent siege by an unknown group throws the Tribe into chaos, and mysterious acts of violence plague the Tribe’s territories and people. As the assault on the Tribe increases, Nena suspects that the enemy is not an outside source, but rather lies within the Tribe itself and has their sights not only on the Tribe, but on the Knight family as well.
Why did you decide to write it?
This particular story was always part of the initial character arc I planned for Nena. Her first book is an origin book and about her dealing with the effects of her past. The second is her dealing with opposition that wants to undermine something good that she and the Tribe have been working to establish. The third will be a broader conflict and opposition. So in They Come at Knight, I really wanted to explore into what happens when people try to destroy something you work so hard to build, something that is good.
Who is your favorite character in the book and why?
I love all the characters, honestly, because each one has something that I (and I hope the reader) can connect with. Each character brings something to the…Council table. LOL. But I really, really love Keigle because he is a breath of fresh air that rides so hard for Nena. I love their relationships and what he does for her. And I love that he just says whatever he wants unapologetically. Even his name is inappropriate, and he loves it! He’s hilarious.
What was the hardest part about writing the story?
Oooh, the hardest part about writing the story was writing where the story ends up going. I still think about it. The hardest part about writing book 2 as a whole was writing it before book 1 was even released and I knew whether or not the readers would love Nena Knight and her crew. I am thankful and blessed that readers love Nena, and I hope that love continues on.
If you were to write a book about your life, what would be the title and why?
The Reintroduction of Yasmin Angoe. I’m horrible at titles, but I think maybe this because before I began writing Her Name Is Knight, I was really lost. I was trying to figure out who I was after losing my dad, after relocating with my two kids to a new state where we knew no one, after devastating life and marital changes….
Before all of that happened in rapid fire one right after another, I was a different Yasmin. And after all of adversity and learning, I had to find myself again and re-introduce myself not only to the world, but to me too. Like, hello world, this is me now.
What is something readers would be surprised to know about you?
I realized I like a creative in a lot of ways other than just writing. I went to school to be a culinary chef some time back but didn’t want to work in a restaurant after a bad experience. In 2020, I began teaching myself to braid my daughter’s hair because remarkably, braiding hair soothes and relaxes me! It’s mindless activity where my mind can just focus on making sure the part is just right (it’s never right for me!).
Tell me about a book that changed your life and why.
Many books changed me in different ways. There’s not one that changed my life entirely unless we’re talking about Her Name Is Knight, which is an obvious response. But Toni Morrison’s Beloved rocked me when I read it because of how [she]created the physical manifestation of someone’s grief and trauma. Octavia Butler’s Kindred for how she merged time travel and this woman learning about herself. Tananarive Due’s African Immortals Series as well as LA Banks’s Vampire Huntress series…all of those Black women writing stories so out of the norm of what was and is expected of a Black woman to write. Then there is Walter Mosely’s Fortunate Son, which I still think about because it was masterful. Kimberla Lawson Roby’s Curtis Black series had me yelling at the books. Sooo many books and authors sooo little space.
What’s next for you?
Next up is editing and revising Book 3. I will be writing a standalone thriller, so I’m thinking about what that story will be about. I have one in mind, but I am a slow thinker, faster writer, so I need to ruminate on that a bit. And then I have another project that is currently unannounced that I’ll be working on. I also have writing and reading conferences that I’ve been asked to speak at, so that’s going to be fun. But I’m ready to book more work, so load me up!
Do you have anything you would like to add?
I just want to say how very thankful I am for this opportunity. Being a published author has been my dream since I was little. Knowing my stories are being enjoyed by readers, reading their email messages when they write to tell me how the book made them feel, means the world. So, thank you.
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QUOTED: "How should Nena be at this point in her life, after going through what she had in the last two books and making the hard choices she had to make? How do those choices affect her and the people around her? How has she grown? How has she stayed the same? ... I wanted to explore those questions and to see how Nena comes out on the other end of it."
Yasmin Angoe Talks ‘It Ends with Knight’
September 8, 2023 by Chandra Sparks Splond
Author Yasmin Angoe is back with another installment of her popular Nena Knight series. I recently spoke with her about It Ends with Knight.
Tell me about your latest book.
The pitch for It Ends With Knight goes something like, “Until his untimely death, Nena’s mentor was the backbone of the Tribe. With his leadership position now vacant, and despite the Tribe’s misgivings about her, Nena has stepped into a new role she never wanted. Politics. However, during her first official assignment in her new position, one of the Tribe’s own has been kidnapped, and the only person qualified for this rescue mission is Nena Knight and her new team—forcing her back to her origins as an assassin. Determined to harness the power of her former role to succeed in her new one, Nena must also face what she left behind. Old fears, resentments, and anger threaten the precarious hold Nena has on her new life and position as she realizes that the past—and the people from it—are never far behind.” That’s it in a nutshell.
What inspired you to write it?
The natural progression of Nena’s story arc is what inspired me. How should Nena be at this point in her life, after going through what she had in the last two books and making the hard choices she had to make? How do those choices affect her and the people around her? How has she grown? How has she stayed the same? What happens when faced with a major setback that unravels all the good she’s done for herself. I wanted to explore those questions and to see how Nena comes out on the other end of it.
When did you fall in love with the written word?
I fell in love with the written word when I was a kid reading all these books from all these places. Reading elicited such joy, inspiration, awe, and hope from me that I wanted to be able to create something like that for whomever read my stories. I’ve always appreciated what a good story does for a person, and to be able to do that for others is my biggest achievement.
What’s the best part of being an author?
The best part is when a reader brings up elements of my stories or characters that I hadn’t really thought of myself. I love their different takes on my writing. It means I fostered thought and imagination. It means I hit hard in places I didn’t know I wanted to hit. It feels great because if there is one thing I love to discuss, it’s stories and the craft to write them.
What’s the hardest part of being an author?
The hardest part of being an author, for me, is juggling writing and non-writing stuff. Apparently, it takes more than just writing to be an author. There’s the business aspect to it, and that can take up a lot of time if you don’t schedule properly. Balancing both (plus life in general) is tough. But I’m thankful to be able to do it.
What books have you read lately and loved?
The last book I read and absolutely loved is Her Good Side by Rebekah Weatherspoon. It’s a YA romance. It was so lovely…the voice, the characters, everything. It was very different from what I have been writing and very much needed. I enjoyed it immensely. Another was an early read of Kellye Garrett’s Missing White Woman, which comes out next year and S.A. Cosby’s All the Sinners Bleed, which is as usual remarkable.
What book(s) are you most excited to read next?
This book has been out, but I’m excited to get to it, Terah Shelton Harris’s One Summer in Savannah. I’m also excited to read Angie Kim’s upcoming Happiness Falls and The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok.
Who would you cast in a movie to play your main characters?
I hadn’t really thought of who to cast for It Ends With Knight. For the first book of the trilogy, Her Name Is Knight, Idris Elba would be the perfect Paul…because he’s who I envisioned for him when I was writing him.
What’s next for you?
I’m currently writing my fourth book, which is a standalone. It is a thriller, not action like the Nena Knight books, but I think it’ll be something the readers will enjoy.
Do you have anything you would like to add?
Thank you for the questions and for your support of the Nena Knight series.
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Yasmin Angoe
Yasmin Angoe is the first-generation Ghanaian American and Anthony Award-Nominated author of the acclaimed action thriller Her Name Is Knight of the Nena Knight series. Yasmin is the proud recipient of the 2020 Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Emerging Writers of Color. She is a former English teacher and Instructional Coach and is a freelance developmental editor. When not writing or editing, Yasmin is devouring books and working to make the publishing world an equal and equitable place for all and enjoying quality time with her family in South Carolina.
Plotter or Pantser: Pantser
Early Bird or Night Owl: Night Owl
Favorite writing snack food: Sweet and salty mix from Circle K, yum!
Hobbies not related to writing: I like to cook and watch movies/TV. I like to dance and braid my daughter's hair which is a nice break from writing.
What are you currently reading: About a million things at once. Holly by Stephen King
What has SinC meant to you? SinC has meant a community and meeting lifelong friends. It's also meant opportunity and a great support system.
What else would you like people to know about you? I may be quiet and not say much but I'm always listening and when I have something meaningful to say, I'll say it. I do also like to be silly something and joke around. Then I'm back to being quiet again.
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August 7, 2023
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We recently connected with Yasmin Angoe and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Yasmin, thanks for joining us today. If you could go back in time do you wish you had started your creative career sooner or later?
The old saying goes when it’s your time, then you’ll get what you’ve been wanting, and I think it’s right. My time to be a writer was not right out of high school, when I really wanted to be an author, had no idea how one got started in the publishing industry, but rather after school, kids, and a teaching career. Then it was “my time,” and I came back to writing with the intent of getting an agent and becoming a traditionally published writer. I think the detour in my writing career allowed me to deepen my craft and prepare myself for the ups and many downs of publishing.
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.
I am a thriller/suspense writer and a developmental editor. I’ve been writing since elementary school but made a serious go of becoming traditionally published. I queried many agents and eventually got one who understood my work, voice and believed in me. From there, my agent submitted my finished manuscript, Her Name Is Knight, to publishers, and we were offered a two-book deal. My book was optioned for a tv series adaptation shortly after that. Since then, I’ve written the last two books of the trilogy, and I have realized I hate deadlines (but who likes them anyway?) and that writing is more enjoyable when it’s just for you. Nonetheless, I wouldn’t give up this opportunity now that I finally have it.
On the other side is developmental editing. I love to write, and I enjoy helping others get their work ready for the world. I think working as an English teacher helped me develop my editing skills. My clients either come to me through Tessera Editorial, with whom I work or are referred directly to me. I think what sets me aside from other editors is that I deeply enjoy the discussion around the plot and characters’ motivation. It’s a gift when readers pick up your story or book and give their time for you to entertain them with your words. So it’s important that what’s put out is to the best of that writer’s ability, and I want to help the writer achieve that.
Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?
I decided that in 2020, I would begin querying my manuscript, Her Name Is Knight, to agents. I queried, that is emailed and sent samples of my manuscript to over a hundred agents and kept getting rejected for various reasons. The majority of their reasons was that they could get into the voice. It’s devastating to receive rejection after rejection for work it took so long and so much of you to write. And I began to doubt myself. I thought all these people can’t be wrong. Maybe I’m a horrible writer after all and need to quit. So I decided that I would quit writer and continue to work in education.
One of my writer friends in a group I’m in, Crime Writers of Color, suggested I submit to the Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Emerging Writers of Color sponsored by Sisters in Crime. I figured why not because I wasn’t going to win anyway and so it didn’t matter because I was hanging up my pens and quitting. Even though I had every intention of quitting, something still compelled me to submit to the award.
Then near the end of May, I received an email from one of the agents who hadn’t yet replied. She wanted to get on a call which in publishing talk means I’m about to offer you representation. I couldn’t believe it. Sure enough, she offered me representation. And then another agent offered. I was floored. I went with the first agent and then received an email indicating I’d won the Eleanor Taylor Bland Award. I nearly passed out.
After many months of no’s, I’d finally received not one, but three yes’s back to back. I got an agent. I received a prestigious award named after a prolific Black female mystery/cop detective writer who wrote stories centered around people who looked like her just like how I wanted to write. Even though I received so many rejections I thought I was the worst writer in the world and was terrified to open up new email messages, I kept sending out queries. Even though I said I was going to quit, I made myself to try one more thing because I think inside I knew I’d never stop. Writing was life blood to me, telling stories is my love language and it was the only way that I could be true to myself. So I had to keep going. I had to be resilient.
Are there any resources you wish you knew about earlier in your creative journey?
I wish I had known and understood the power of community earlier in my creative journey. I didn’t have a group of people who understood the nuances of being a creative. I was surrounded by non-writers who thought writing or being an artist/creative was a hobby, not a real career. I was the child of Ghanaian immigrants, so my family definitely couldn’t imagine being an author as a career. If I had a writing group, critique partners, or anyone I could share with, I think my detour from writing would not have been as long.
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September 26, 2023
We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Yasmin Angoe a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Yasmin, so good to have you with us today. We’ve got so much planned, so let’s jump right into it. We live in such a diverse world, and in many ways the world is getting better and more understanding but it’s far from perfect. There are so many times where folks find themselves in rooms or situations where they are the only ones that look like them – that might mean being the only woman of color in the room or the only person who grew up in a certain environment etc. Can you talk to us about how you’ve managed to thrive even in situations where you were the only one in the room?
With the thriller genre being known for being overly white and male, how have you learned to be effective/successful even when you are the only one in the room that looks like you?
It really depends on the sub-genre of thriller. Psychological thrillers have more women writers coming in, which is fantastic. As for action/espionage it’s definitely heavily male oriented which is to be expected. I don’t know that I’ve learned how to be effective/successful in that genre except to be true to myself and my writing. I think my writing style differs from the guys. I may get deeper into the characters and their motivations than my male colleagues, I think. I try to write about what is realistic to me and to my characters because I believe they are what drive the story. I try to tell a complete story which involves talking about more than just the action. And I try to break free of the typical stereotypes we may see in the typical action thriller. When I write, it’s not about flying through the air and nonstop, pulse-racing action sequences, but about the story behind the characters performing those actions.
Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
I am a writer and freelance developmental editor. I am currently working on my fourth book and when I’m not on deadline with my publishers, I work on editing other writers, either self- or traditionally published. What’s most exciting about the writing side of my career is creating new worlds, new characters for the reader to fall in love with and a new story to wrap the reader up in. What’s exciting about editing is helping other writers create their own break from reality for their readers. It’s really fulfilling to be able to work with writers and help them polish their best possible stories. The third book of the Nena Knight series, It Ends With Knight, just recently released on Sept. 5th and I’m excited for it. I hope that the readers will love it as they have the first two books and that they get great satisfaction from it when they finish it. I have a couple of book events coming up that I’m excited about as well. I’ll get to chat with wonderful authors that I admire and fans of thrillers at Bel Canto Books Sept. 10th, and then 44th and 3rd Booksellers in Atlanta, GA on Sept. 30th so if any of you are in the area, hope you can come out.
There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
Three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful was tenacity, networking, continually learning the craft. Tenacity helped me persevere through all the initial rejections of my work and still helps me keep going. Networking has helped me get more opportunities and has helped me develop my community. And continually learning the craft allows me to not remain stagnant in my writing. The advice I can offer is to try to keep going on no matter the difficulty. It is not easy to get rejected or to have others be critical of your work, but if you believe in your talent, if you are open to accept positive and helpful feedback and be willing to look at yourself to put out your best possible work, finding success (and success can mean different things for different people) will be within your reach.
As we end our chat, is there a book you can leave people with that’s been meaningful to you and your development?
I don’t know that there is one book in particular. But growing up, the books that I carry with me today (all because of their characters) are The Outsiders, Kindred, and Beloved. Honestly, anything Octavia Butler and Toni Morrison wrote inspired me. Octavia Butler provided rich, high-level sci-fi/fantasy stories while Toni Morrison gave rich, meaningful characters you could empathize with. There are other authors I absolutely adore—Terry McMillan, Anne Rice, and Stephen King, for how they also craft their characters and tell a story. Each of those authors mean something to me in their own special ways.
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Crafting My Sweet Spot….Writing the Villain
By Yasmin Angoe | November 7, 2023 | 7 Comments
Do you have a writing sweet spot? The part of your writing that you just love to craft and bring to life to the reader. The place where you feel most at home and brings you joy when you’re deeply mired in it? Not too long ago, I wasn’t sure what my sweet spot was. I thought the overall joy of writing was enough for me, that there wasn’t one aspect of it in particular that I enjoyed more than everything else. But then people started asking me to present at workshops and conferences. There was one topic that kept creeping up in my mind. I thought back to a bunch of emails and social media comments I’ve received since Her Name Is Knight came out, passionately remarking about the characters in my book, especially the villains. Those visceral reactions to my characters, coupled with the presentation topic that nibbled at the corners of my mind coalesced together to one solid conclusion. My thing must be writing characters, but especially the bad ones.
I asked myself what it was about the villains, and characters in general, that brought me such glee and made readers reach out to tell me how they connected to them—or wanted them to die in a painful and horrible death. I went on to put my Power Point together, and I presented it with such gusto that by the time I was done speaking for an hour, I knew definitively that my sweet spot, what I loved the best about writing, was crafting the so-called villains.
I’m not evil. Let me put it out there for my religious family members. I’m not living vicariously through these villains or trying to kill people I don’t like through my characters. I like justice and get riled up when innocents are mistreated and abused. So, I’m not an undercover villain. But damned if I don’t love writing about one, making a character who gets down deep…to the reader’s very soul.
If I think back to, I see I’ve always been curious about character. What makes a person do horrible things. What motivates them. They can’t be all bad all the time. They are just like the heroes they fight (or should be): complex, fearful, wounded. Something has turned them this way and I have always aimed to figure out what. And because I believe that no matter the type of story, fiction or not, the characters on the page are what make the story invigorating. They bring the plot to life. If there aren’t interesting and engaging characters to manipulate reader emotion and drive the story in ways that make sense, then the story won’t land for your readers.
When I’m reading a book, the first thing I’m looking for is to be grounded in the character. When I’m writing, I have to connect with them in some way, even the minor ones. It takes me a while to fully realize a character and what makes them tick. Not every character who does wrong is a villain, and not every good guy is a hero. The labels of “good” or “bad” can switch around quite frequently.
Everyone has a story. Even the bad ones. Everyone has a reason for doing what they do, and it’s the figuring that out and penning it in a way that is compelling to the reader that is my love language. I don’t try to get the reader to root for what the antagonist does to achieve their goals. But I wonder if I stripped the villain’s motivation down to its barest level, the reader might understand what drove that “villain” to achieve those goals.
Don’t root for the method villains take to get what they want. Don’t root for their success because they’re, well, villains. But do create villains that are layered and complicated and make the reader question why. I want to write my bad folks in such a way that the reader must root for their downfall but can see, if not relate a teensy tiny bit, why that baddie turned out the way they did.
We don’t need to make excuses for our villains, especially if they’re really vile and do unspeakable things to other characters. But in creating that vile character, I’m going to provide a dynamic personality, a motivation that is wrapped tight in all the layers of their bad choices and horrible behavior.
Our readers want to be entertained, and it’s up to us writers to bring that entertainment with characters who resonate with them in ways they can’t even explain. Even if they’re the villains. Maybe especially if it’s them. I think that’s a good thing…or maybe a bad one. But I leave that up to you to decide.
Who’s your favorite villainous character? Why do you love them? If you write villains in your own fiction, how do you approach crafting them? The floor is yours.
Yasmin Angoe
Yasmin Angoe is a first-generation Ghanaian American and debut author of Her Name is Knight. In 2020, she received the Sisters in Crime Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Emerging Writers of Color and is a proud member of SinC, Crime Writers of Color, and, Southeast Mystery Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers.
Yasmin was a middle and high school English teacher and currently works as a developmental editor and sensitivity reader in South Carolina. When not writing or editing, she is watching movies, engrossed in a new audiobook, or daydreaming about the fact she probably should be writing.
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Today we’d like to introduce you to Yasmin Angoe.
Hi Yasmin, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
My basic story is that I have been writing since I was in elementary school. I was an only child of my mom who was working 2-3 jobs, so reading and writing were my babysitters, entertainment, siblings, and best friend. After graduating high school and eventually college, I couldn’t see a path to becoming an author. It took me over 20 years to become a published author, but the time between when I graduated high school and now was all a time of experiences that helped me to evolve as a writer.
I started off writing women’s fiction, but publishers weren’t interested in that manuscript then, so I put my writing away to focus on my family and finishing school. I became a middle and high school English teacher. And eventually moved to Columbia, SC in 2009 where I worked as an educator for nearly 10 years while raising my two kids.
I picked writing back up officially in 2011 when the idea of my main character, Nena Knight, started to formulate but I didn’t begin writing it in earnest until 2018, finishing in 2019 with the intention of querying agents in 2020 and hopefully getting an agent and then book deal. In January, I began reaching out to agents in hopes that one of them would offer me representation.
But again I was met with countless rejections. I began to doubt my writing ability. Even though they all said I was a great writer, that the voice of the character was great, etc., they wouldn’t represent my book. They told me they couldn’t connect with the character and I couldn’t figure out what that meant or how to fix it. I thought maybe everyone knew something I couldn’t recognize in myself, that I couldn’t write. I decided I was going to quit writing, to continue as an English teacher, be a mom, and give up on my lifelong dream of writing.
However one of my close writing friends, Kellye Garrett, suggested I submit for the Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Emerging Writers of Color by Sisters in Crime, a national writing organization. Even though I didn’t believe I’d stand a chance, even though I was set to quit writing altogether, I told myself I’d do “just one more thing,” and I submitted and forgot about it because I wasn’t going to win…and I was going to quit writing. This was in April.
In early June, I got an email from an agent who wanted to talk to me about “Her Name Is Knight”. I couldn’t believe it because of all the rejections I’d had. Melissa Edwards of Stonesong Literary made an offer of representation and I was on cloud nine. So then I was like, “Well, maybe I won’t quit after all.”
A week or so later, I was cleaning my mailbox and see an email saying something about being a winner and about “sisters”. At first, I thought it was junk and nearly put it in spam. But something told me to open it, something rang familiar. Turned out it was an email informing me that I’d won the Eleanor Taylor Bland award. I couldn’t believe it! My agent submitted the manuscript for Her Name Is Knight to publishers right after it was announced that I was the 2020 recipient and a week after that announcement, we were talking to publishers who wanted to buy the book.
I got a two-book deal from Thomas & Mercer in August. Another couple of weeks after that, we were talking to several Hollywood production companies who wanted to adapt the book into a TV series and now my book series is being developed for TV adaptation by Endeavor Content and Ink Factory. It all happened lightning-fast.
Mine isn’t a conventional story. People may think this is typical and that becoming a published author happens quickly.
But mine was decades in the making. It was a dream deferred and deferred again. And when it finally happened, when I got an agent, won the award, the book deal, and then the TV option it all happened so fast and back to back that I still have whiplash.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
It hasn’t been a smooth road at all. The onslaught of rejections from agents who couldn’t connect with my character’s voice or maybe didn’t get my story brought about nearly debilitating self-doubt. The life delays, changes in family dynamics, death of my dad for whom HNIK was written, juggling working full-time as a teacher, being a single mom and being present for my kids, and then trying to find time to write at night made the road tumultuous. Trying to find a community of writers who could encourage me and I could do the same for them was also a big factor in where I am now. You need a community, and I spent years looking for one…the writing community and also a community in this new town in which I knew no one…all of those factors were struggles I had to work through.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I am a writer. I write action/espionage thrillers, the Nena Knight series, which is published by Thomas & Mercer. The first book is Her Name Is Knight and came out in 2021. The second book is They Come At Knight which came out this year, 2022. The third book It Ends With Knight is set to release Sept. of 2023 and I have a standalone book coming out the following year.
I am most proud of writing books in which characters who look like me are doing things we aren’t typically known to do. I wrote Her Name Is Knight because, at the time, I first thought of the character, I wasn’t seeing many characters in books who were women that were Black and from foreign countries doing things typically expected of men. I wanted to highlight my Ghanaian culture as I am a first-generation Ghanaian American and I wanted to write about the power of a woman, of a Black woman, saving herself. I wanted to write about a culture of people many readers don’t know much about and I wanted to do away with some of the negative stereotypes placed on women, on immigrants, on African people.
I’m proud I was able to write the types of books I wanted to read, in a genre I devour as a reader and audience member which discussed the topics that mattered to me and many of the readers who connected with the books. I think that’s what also sets me apart from my counterparts.
What sort of changes are you expecting over the next 5-10 years?
In the next 5-10 years, I hope to see more shifts toward making the norm, books that are written by diverse authors about diverse characters and stories that all of the readers can relate to. There are a lot more books that bridge those gaps out there now, but they’re not the norm. Right now, they are the exception. But I hope that eventually, books aren’t considered prolific because the book happens to hit on the “trending” topic or trauma of the moment, but because the story is phenomenal and the author’s writing is exceptional.
When readers pick up a book, I hope the shift is that they can connect to whatever character speaks to them, regardless of the character’s race, sexual identity, culture, ability, etc.
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QUOTED: "Angoe grounds the plot's surprising twists with lovable, fully realized characters."
Not What She Seems
Yasmin Angoe. Thomas & Mercer, $28.99 (394p) ISBN 978-1-6625-0833-2
Angoe (the Nena Knight series) delivers an impressive standalone centered on research assistant Jacinda "Jac" Brodie, who returns to her Southern hometown to tend to her ailing grandfather. When 28-year-old Jac is passed over for a fellowship, she learns that her boss, bestselling author Conrad Meckleson, sabotaged her chances after she ended their affair. Even worse, Jac discovers that Conrad is preparing to write a true crime book about the death, six years earlier, of her father, South Carolina police chief MJ, who fell off a cliff near the historic Moor Manor while Jac was nearby, making her a prime suspect. The investigation made Jac an outcast in her hometown of Brook
Haven, but she returns after her grandfather, a retired cop, suffers a heart attack. Once there, Jac clashes with Faye Arden, a mysterious entrepreneur who's recently renovated Moor Manor. Though Brook Haven society quickly accepted Faye into its ranks, Jac senses something sinister about her. As Jac digs into the businesswoman's background, she comes to wonder if Faye is connected to her father's murder. Angoe grounds the plot's surprising twists with lovable, fully realized characters. Lisa Unger fans, take note. Agent: Melissa Edwards, S tones on g. (Sept.)
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QUOTED: "endless skeletons in the family closet, all disclosed by a protagonist who makes one reckless move after another."
Angoe, Yasmin NOT WHAT SHE SEEMS Thomas & Mercer (Fiction None) $28.99 8, 1 ISBN: 9781662508332
In a dramatic change from Angoe's trilogy about professional assassin Nina Knight, a disgraced daughter returns to her South Carolina family to find that it's in even bigger trouble than she thought.
Jacinda Brodie has already had quite the day before she learns of her beloved grandfather's heart attack. Conrad Meckleson, her ex-mentor and ex-lover, has persuaded the D.C. college where she's a teaching assistant to deny her a research fellowship she thought was in the bag. And he's landed a fat contract for a book he hopes will return him to bestseller lists, a story based on family secrets she confided in him, the most shocking of which is that Jac pushed her father, Brook Haven police chief Montavious Brodie Jr., over a cliff to his death. Resolved that her story is hers alone, Jac lets herself into Meckleson's place, packs up the notes he's taken over the years, and dashes off a series of bridge-burning emails to the college administrators on her way out the door. Back home in Brook Haven, things are even worse. Her grandfather, Montavious Brodie Sr., the only family member who hasn't judged Jac harshly, dies shortly after her arrival, leaving her to solace herself with old school friends Sawyer Okoye, now an administrator for the police, and Nicolas Tate, the mayor's son. Jac instantly takes against Faye Arden, the mayor's pushy fiancee, who's renovating the notorious Murder Manor, where the caretaker reportedly killed over a dozen victims 50 years ago, into Moor Manor. Her granddad's heart attack, Jac decides, was engineered by Faye. Just in case the enmity between the two women isn't fierce enough, Meckleson pops up to accuse Jac of theft.
Endless skeletons in the family closet, all disclosed by a protagonist who makes one reckless move after another.
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QUOTED: "This avenger is tough."
Angoe, Yasmin IT ENDS WITH KNIGHT Thomas & Mercer (Fiction None) $28.99 9, 5 ISBN: 9781662508288
Quite a change for professional Network assassin Nena Knight: Despite her protests, her father packs her off on a complicated diplomatic mission.
The Tanzanian village of Latema is sitting on an enormously valuable tanzanite mine that American entrepreneur Frances Dubin--a textbook racist and sexist whose French wife, Bridget, delivered Nena to traffickers when she still was a child--is itching to develop and expand. The national government, in the persons of Prime Minister Samwell Asogi and minister of mining Farida Odemba, wants a piece of the action. Councilman David Tegete is running point among Dubin, the government officials, and the miners, whose spokesperson is charismatic Robin Hood figure Judah Wasira. Ignoring Nena's apt observation that "she wasn't one for diplomacy or too much conversation," Noble Knight assigns her and her crew--Eritrean American Network colleague Femi, high-level South African op Billy Thom, and tech specialist Evers, ne Everlasting Nevermind Chinoba--to make sure the negotiations go smoothly, do their best to prevent the villagers from being cheated, and cover Tegete's back. Readers of the first two installments of Nena's adventures won't be surprised when everything goes wrong: A suspicious accident makes the mine distinctly less marketable, several important parties are shot, a child is kidnapped, and the ransom demanded, apart from a paltry $2 million, is a one-sided mining deal that's unfair to everyone but whomever hired the kidnappers. Luckily, Nena is now in her element, since every problem this new turn of events poses can be solved with condign violence, even though the story could well have ended before the last few twists.
Watch your back, Liam Neeson. This avenger is tough.
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"Angoe, Yasmin: IT ENDS WITH KNIGHT." Kirkus Reviews, 1 Aug. 2023, p. NA. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A758849163/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=1515c2ff. Accessed 25 Aug. 2024.
QUOTED: "of special appeal to readers with an interest in novels involving assassination, serial killers, and political thrillers."
It Ends With Knight
Yasmin Angoe, author
Tamika Katon-Donegal, narrator
Brilliance Audio
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9798400115554, $29.99, MP3-CD (12 Hours 59 Minutes)
https://www.amazon.com/Ends-Knight-Nena/dp/B0BLZ6QK6V
Synopsis: Until his untimely death, Nena's mentor was the backbone of the Tribe. With his leadership position unfilled and despite the Tribe's newfound misgivings about her, Nena has stepped into a new role she never wanted.
Politics is an entirely new venture for her, and now one of the Tribe's own has been kidnapped, forcing her back to her origins as an assassin. But the only person qualified for such a rescue mission is Nena Knight--and a new team whose trust in her continues to waver.
Determined to harness the power of her former role to succeed in her new one, Nena must also face what she left behind. Old fears, resentments, and anger threaten the precarious hold Nena has on her new life as she realizes that the past (and the people from it) are never far behind.
Critique: Of special appeal to readers with an interest in novels involving assassination, serial killers, and political thrillers, "It Ends with Knight" by Yasmin Angoe is now available as a complete and unabridged audio book deftly narrated by Tamika Katon-Donegal. A flawlessly produced audio book from Brilliance Audio, "It Ends with Knight" is especially and particularly recommended for both personal and community Suspense/Thiller audio book collections.
Editorial Note #1: Yasmin Angoe is the author of Her Name Is Knight and a first-generation Ghanaian American. She has served in education for nearly twenty years and works as a developmental editor. Yasmin received the 2020 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award from Sisters in Crime and is a member of numerous crime, mystery, and thriller organizations like Sisters in Crime, Crime Writers of Color, and International Thriller Writers. You can find her at www.yasminangoe.com, on Twitter at @yasawriter, and on Instagram at @author_yas
Editorial Note #2: Tamika Katon-Donegal (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1346532) is a seasoned professional vocal actor and audio book narrator.
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QUOTED: "action-adventure at its very best."
They Come at Knight
Yasmin Angoe, author
Tamika Katon-Donegal, narrator
Brilliance Audio
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9781713651956, $24.99, MP3-CD
https://www.amazon.com/They-Come-Knight-Nena/dp/1713651955
Synopsis: For elite assassin Nena Knight, eliminating dangerous players on the world stage is part of the job. The Tribe, a powerful business syndicate in Africa, ensures that she has those opportunities. But for Nena, the Tribe is more than just her employer; it's an organization that supports the African people--until it turns on itself.
As Nena embarks on a new mission, a violent siege by a paramilitary group throws the Tribe into chaos, and mysterious acts of violence plague the Tribe's territories. As the attacks escalate, Nena suspects a different kind of enemy at play: someone on the inside, determined to undermine the Tribe's leaders.
As this new threat closes in on her own family, Nena enlists a team to root out the danger. But as she gets closer to the truth, she will have to risk everything to protect the future she holds dear--even if it means facing off with an enemy she never expected.
Critique: Action-adventure at its very best, author Yasmin Angoe's "They Come At Knight" is now available as a complete and unabridged audio book that is magnificently narrated by the vocal performance of Tamika Katon-Donegal. A flawless performance from start to finish, this audio book edition from Brilliance Audio will prove to be an enduringly popular addition to personal and community library audio book collections.
Editorial Note #1 : Yasmin Angoe is the author of the critically acclaimed Her Name Is Knight, first book in the Nena Knight trilogy. She is a first-generation Ghanaian American and the recipient of the 2020 Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Emerging Writers of Color. Her Name Is Knight came in #1 on multiple Amazon Bestseller charts and is an Editor's Pick for Best Mystery, Thriller, & Suspense.
Editorial Note #2: Tamika KatonDonegal is best known for her roles in Veronica Mars (2004) Rocketboy (2006), and Agent Carter (2015). A talented voice over narrator she has a website page at https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21310256.Tamika_Katon_Donegal
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QUOTED: "a second round of action-packed, high-casualty intrigue for professional assassin Nena Knight."
Angoe, Yasmin THEY COME AT KNIGHT Thomas & Mercer (Fiction None) $17.99 9, 13 ISBN: 978-1-6625-0007-7
A second round of action-packed, high-casualty intrigue for professional assassin Nena Knight.
Happy families may be all alike, but the family of Noble Knight, who took Nena in after her birth father was killed, is something else. Noble plays a prominent role in the African Tribal Council; Nena herself, trained as a warrior, heads a Dispatch team of professional assassins targeting anyone who threatens the Council; and Noble's birth daughter, Elin, is pregnant with the baby of Oliver Douglas, whom Nena killed in Her Name Is Knight (2021). Now new threats seem to have reached a boiling point. Not only has someone been embezzling from the Council; rumors that someone has infiltrated its ranks and passed information to one of its many enemies are confirmed when the planned assassination of Gen. Konate goes south, leaving most of Nena's Dispatch team dead and Nena herself grieving and struggling to figure out who she can and can't trust. After a mission from Ghana to Gabon to strengthen a crucial alliance leads to more explosive violence, Nena thinks she's plumbed the depths of treachery, but she's only tasted its first fruits. Angoe, who seems to draw inspiration from a combination of Black Panther and Black Widow, keeps the betrayals coming as allies closer and closer to Nena show their true colors through their attempts to bend the Council to their own nefarious ends. Although Nena's surprised by every single one of these betrayals, savvy readers will wise up sooner than she does.
A lethal tale of an all-but-superhero whose author promises that "in this story, there are no heroes."
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