Author's Info presents Open Book with Envy Red & Q. This episode we feature Mizz Baltimore Michelle "Pebbles" Caldwell, Photographer. Mizz Pebbles or just Michelle commonly known, is a fan photographer who is coming up on the entertainment scene. Yes, she started as a fan photographer but under the study and guidance of Hip-Hop pioneering legend-The Chief Rocka Busy Bee, this charismatic personality is slowly becoming the "Baltimore" celebrity photographer at parties and concerts. Each one of her photos has a personal story behind them as she keeps it 100 with me. Currently she's working on publishing her memoirs titled "Memories of Pain" and she's a writer on imusiccentral.com. Here's a short list of her photo subjects Jamie Foxx, Trey Songs, Anthony Hamilton, Musiq Soulchild, Snoop Dogg, Estelle, Erykah Badu, Common, Redman, Method Man, Busy Bee, Red Grant, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Miguel, Amazin', J Holiday, Rakim, K-Swft and many more. Michelle is also managing her son's music group Amazin'. The music video for their new single "Keep Up" is in preproduction as I write and will be produced by Q. At the same time Michelle has Black Diamond Entertainment and Swagga Magazine for new and aspiring local artists. Michelle has been featured for her work with The Chief Rocka Busy Bee in the LA Times this month as well. The second part of this interview will be available soon. K-Swift Baltimore Club Mix Tribute composed by Q aka DJ KaNeckScratch Patterns performed by DJ Ant Love of the Mo' Nique Show.

Q Productions & Author's Info presents: Open Book with Envy Red & Q.  This is the premiere episode of Open Book.  In this episode hosts Envy Red and executive producer Q talk about her novel: Touch.   This is the book that made Envy Red a celebrity.  She has won 5 awards for Touch, and we talk about it in this 2 part interview.  Touch is an erotic thriller, based in Washington DC.  The story has a serial killer who stalks the DC "swingers" scene.  Yeah, that's what I said.   It's a must read!!!

Highlights include:

As a child Promise Brown lived the life that every girl in the ghetto would have loved to live. Her parents, Sweet Pea and Biggs, were the head of a fledging drug empire that stretched from coast to coast. They were way passed hood rich but refused to leave the hood—the same place that contributed to their downfall. The hood bred jealousy and envy which would ultimately affect the Brown's livelihood.

Just when Promise had gotten use to the good life things went downhill. Her parents were arrested and later imprisoned because of a snitch who hid behind false pretenses causing DEFACS to step in and make her a ward of the state.
Now all she wants is out! Escaping the clutches of the system, Promise runs back to her old hood. There she runs into her mother's childhood friend's nephew and together they devise a way to get paid.

Promise never imagined she would end up engulfed in a world of stripping and escort services. She took it all in stride for the love of the money but will the life she lead make her or break her?

For a girl her age, the resume keeps building. Eleanor Leonne Bennett is a 16 year old photographer and artist who have won contests with National Geographic, The Woodland Trust, The World Photography Organisation, Winstons Wish, Papworth Trust, Mencap, Big Issue, Wrexham science, Fennel and Fern and Nature’s Best Photography. She is the youngest artist to be displayed in Charnwood Art’s Vision 09 Exhibition and New Mill’s Artlounge Dark Colours Exhibition.

She has had her photographs published in exhibitions and magazines across the world including the Guardian, RSPB Birds, RSPB Bird Life, Dot Dot Dash, Alabama Coast, Alabama Seaport and NG Kids Magazine. She was also the only person from the UK to have her work displayed in the National Geographic and Airbus run See The Bigger Picture global exhibition tour with the United Nations International Year Of Biodiversity 2010.Only visual artist published in the Taj Mahal Review June 2011.

For a girl her age, it is amazing what she’s achieved. Going through an email sent by her, I remember being confused as to whether 16 years was her real age, or a typographical error. British born and Stockport based Eleanor best describes the reaction given her most times by magazine editors as regards being young and with so many accolades, “Quite a few editors have thought with my accolades that I’ve been photographing for 16 years and that is not actually my age.”

It becomes more amazing knowing that Eleanor was self taught. “There aren’t any artists in my family which can feel a bit lonely.” The only family member that shares the love for the Arts with her is her granddad. Residing in France, he was a producer for the BBC and is a writer. “He always wanted to be a photographer,” she says.

For some time, Eleanor managed her talent by being her own role model. Only when she met Reza Deghati and received a day mentorship did it register in her that her photographs needed to always mean something. “After seeing his work I know my photography needs to convey messages; it has to mean something.” Now, in her photographs are images of her being pushed down stairs, left out in the cold, sleeping in ruined rooms, and riding in battered cars.

With a common theme in her photographs being crime, abuse, destruction and health, Eleanor takes effort in sharing this message with her audience. “I search for calls for submissions and make contacts with publishers and editors.”

A stickler for hard work, for someone her age, Eleanor each morning wakes up at 4am “to keep in check with my deadlines”, and hardly gets breaks. She assures herself of working now so as to rest – but not retire – early. “I can see myself finally resting and chilling out in my 40s when I’ve finally made some money and can take a break.” Considered just starting, Eleanor looks forward to seeing the artist she’ll become, “creating art in my 70’s”.