Brooklyn Darkchild is a 47 years old mother of nine with a life long passion for writing. A New York transplant born and raised in the borough of Brooklyn, Ms. Darkchild has called Cincinnati her home for the past eleven years. Her debut novel, This Ain't No Hearts and Flowers Love Story won the 2008 Reader Views Book of the Year Award in the Great Lakes/Regional category as well as placing third in the Spiritual/Religion category. Currently a day care teacher, Ms. Darkchild is working on the follow up to her award winning novel in her spare time.