


Pepper became instantly popular and won several awards each year in which she submitted a story to the site. Too shy to share her work with anyone, Pepper stock piled her many stories into notebooks until she came upon and was compelled to share her craft.

Pepper wrote her first novel when she was 12 years old and had written 2 more by the age of 18. Soon writing became more important than the illustrations and though she still loved art, it took a back seat to her real love. At a very young age, Pepper had a gift for art and would spend most of her spare time drawing images that she later began adding stories behind. Born and raised in Cincinnati, she has always enjoyed creativity. Pepper Pace is the pen name used by the author. Out of a sense of loneliness and true friendship the two outcasts finally find something deeper than friendship and their journey to self discovery begins. Cracker.' After exploring mutual stereotypes and attempting to understand their differences, Juicy and Troy find themselves drawn to each other. After an altercation, Juicy finds herself rescued by an unlikely individual a white, homeless man that she has thoughtlessly nick-named 'Mr. Now, as an adult, Juicy has grown into a woman that is filled with anger and a distrust of whites instilled in her by her mother. And Troy, whose mental illness forced him into the streets. This interracial love journey is the tale of Juicy who has spent much of her adolescence being bullied because of her dark skin and her weight, until circumstances forced her to stand up for herself. Juicy Robinson was the color of sweet black licorice, of a charcoal briquette soaked in lighter fluid and no one was going to make her feel like she wasn't the sexiest thing around-not the white people that her mother had taught her to distrust and certainly not the homeless white man that has been watching her from the alley.
