We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Eric AKA Cinnamon Brown a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Alright, Eric AKA Cinnamon thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Let’s jump back to the first dollar you earned as a creative? What can you share with us about how it happened?
I has struggled for years as a writer and none of my books sold. I have written woman-centric books and being a man I had no creditability. I needed money as my wife had breast cancer at that time and bills were piling up. I began studying the market and realized I needed a female persona and pen name to connect with the audience. Once I became Cinnamon Brown my books gained traction and my book, I am That Bitch went to number one on Amazon.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
I have written for over 20 years largely unsuccessfully. The key is to write everyday even if its for 10 minutes by putting notes in your phone. Keep up the exercise of developing ideas. I am most proud of my first film Cuffed now on YouTube film entirely in Richmond, VA.
Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?
I want to create juicy and engaging stories about black americans that don’t feed into traditional stereotypes.
We’d love to hear the story of how you built up your social media audience?
You have to really engage, talk to people to build a following and it takes a year or two of consistent talks, lives, memes that people want to talk about and raise their interest in you.
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George Murrell Thru.da.eye.of.g