Afro Nerd in Love

Ran Walker (he/him) is the author of twenty-nine books. His short stories, flash fiction, microfiction, and poetry have appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals. Prior to becoming a writer and educator, he worked in magazine publishing and practiced law in Mississippi.He is the winner of the Indie Author Project's 2019 National Indie Author of the Year Award (selected by judges from Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, IngramSpark, St. Martin's Press, and Writer's Digest), the 2019 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Best Fiction Ebook Award, the 2018 Virginia Indie Author Project Award for Adult Fiction, and the 2021 Blind Corner Afrofuturism Microfiction Contest. Ran is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Hampton University and teaches with Writer's Digest University. He lives in Virginia with his wife and much better half, Lauren, and his amazing daughter, Zoë.

In this sexy follow up to 30 Love: A Novel, Charles "Chucky" Buckner arrives at the wedding of his friends Dizzy and Lailah, but he has no idea of what awaits him.Almost immediately he finds himself connecting with Lailah's best friend, Marcia, a woman who opens him up to the best time of his life. There's only one catch: Marcia is on a temporary hiatus from her boyfriend to see if they have what it takes to get married, and that hiatus will end in two weeks.Undaunted, Chucky is willing to challenge the fifteen years of that relationship against the remaining time he has with her. But only time will tell if his gamble for love will pay off.