Monday, August 8, 2011

Say it ain't so...



"L.A. Banks (1959-2011) —  Writer Leslie Esdaile Banks, 51, who wrote urban fantasy as L.A. Banks, died August 2, 2011 of adrenal cancer in Philadelphia PA. ..."   For more... 

I had not read her books, but I heard her read a couple times and greatly enjoyed it.  More, she was an awesome, very funny yet very down to earth GoH at Convergence just a couple of years ago, and gave some very good writing advice.  She was so young.  And there are not so many black folks who are SFF writers, period, especially so well-published.  Damn...

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