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Leigh McKnight also known as Minnie Dix and author of From My Front Porch is launching a brand new book due out in October 09! Based off of the hit, From My Front Porch, Sinners Never Sleep is bound to rock the boats of love.
For those who missed From My Front Porch, a southern lady falls in love and then loses her heart when she finds that cheating is the name of the game. This first book has been mentioned on The Oprah Winfrey Show as well as made the Ebony Magazine bookshelf, and that means that it must be good!
Now, Leigh McKnight is bringing the power of relationships back to us in Sinners Never Sleep. She has agreed to check INN THE BASEMENT with me to discuss this upcoming book and more!
Mirika (ITB): Thank you, Leigh, for checking INN THE BASEMENT with me. 
I am so very excited about this new book, Sinners Never Sleep, and I can’t wait for the release. Now for everyone who doesn’t know, I love my girl, Leigh whom I refer to as Minnie! She is actually one of the authors that I met prior to the authoring of my own books, and Leigh gave me such a big hand it things…amazing and truly a blessing.
Now off of me and you, and just about you! Leigh, the title Sinners Never Sleep is an earful, and it already has my senses alert! Rayanne is the character in the first book, From My Front Porch, and it looks as though she is getting ready to find herself the man of men! What made you decide to continue on in this second book with Rayanne’s love and life?
Leigh McKnight (Minnie Dix): This is the easy question. Front Porch originally started out as one large, self-published book, 458 pages in fact. Back in the year 2000, Pool and Smith Publishing Compan
y, a small family owned business located in Richmond, Virginia, signed me to a contract to put Front Porch in hard cover but unfortunately the owner and financial backer for the company died which rendered contract null and void. In November of 2006 My agent telephoned me and asked me how long would it take to write a synopsis for From My Front Porch, I asked why, that the book was almost ten years old at that time. Her answer was that Urban Books was interested in buying the rights to the book. My response was that I could probably do it in 30 minutes. Once contract was signed and work began on book, I had a choice of trimming 90,000 words or turning original book into two books. I opted to turn book into two books. That’s really how Rayanne’s story continued into the second book.
Mirika (ITB): Okay so now I am going to get personal! Don’t hate me, but just wondering, Leigh, have you suffered through any type of relationship heartbreak, and if you have, how did you shake the sucker off? Was it through the love of another man?
Leigh McKnight (Minnie Dix): Yes I have suffered through relationship heartbreaks, and though many have said ‘the quickest way to forget one man in a relationship gone bad is to be with another, I haven’t thought that rebounding was the healthiest thing to do. I try to keep busy reading, watching movies and writing. Although, writing may not have kept me warm on those cold and lonely nights, if only for a moment, writing had a way of propelling me into a place that was comfortable for me. Being creative, I get so involved with my characters that find myself being in that place and that time as I said, even if only for the moment. And really, that really is what it is all about…Time. Time is a great healer until I am ready to commit tot another relationship.
Mirika (ITB): Sinners Never Sleep is obviously the stone cold truth. ‘Sinners’ don’t sleep! Though a fiction novel, do you find a correlation between it and your own life deeply within the pages at all? Does your own background - being from the south and moving to NY - actually help you to write such a novel?
Finish the interview at http://innthebasement.com/index.php/inn-the-basement-exclusive-2009-interview-with-leigh-mcknight-aka-minnie-dix-the-new-book-sinners-never-sleep/
