KARLA DAVIS - EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW - FRI, APR 30TH, 2021 - 12:00 PM PST

KARLA DAVIS-LUSTER BIO

Chicago native Karla Davis-Luster is an entrepreneur who wears several hats. She has her own fashion line, leads a think-tank for small business owners to network and collaborate as well as served in the corporate world for companies such as Mrs. Fields, Burger King and McDonald’s. Karla’s mother instilled within her at a young age that taking the path towards having one’s own solid business is the way to go. After she attained those achievements, Karla has a “bucket list” of goals she wanted to tackle outside of work and at the top was penning her first fiction novel – the steaming, salacious tales of romance “The Woman Tells”.

“For years I always wanted to write a book but couldn’t figure out what I wanted to write about,” Karla explains. “I had thought of maybe writing an autobiography or memoirs but decided to create a book based on various experiences friends and others had in terms of love, relationships and how things can become quite complicated if not straight up messy in the romance department. This was after speaking with one of my clients who knew I wanted to write a book. So I had started writing ‘The Woman Tells’ a couple of years ago as an off-and-on thing. Then when the pandemic hit, I achieved two goals – I opened my consignment store and finished writing the book.”

One thing for certain when it comes to “The Woman Tells” is that Karla as a writer has a vivid imagination and incorporates that along with many sources of inspiration. Karla - “There are tales within ‘The Woman Tells’ that I had to embellish to make the stories really juicy and eye-opening without being far-fetched. I do say in the book that these stories are based on what could happen in real life yet make sure I don’t get too carried away within the storytelling process. I do really have a solid imagination!”

Without giving too much away, “The Woman Tells” gives perspectives from many points of view. “What I do within the book is not only explain what each character is doing but why,” explains Karla. “I want the reader to fully understand the mode of operation the couple as well as the other man and the other woman are coming from and what each wants within their own world when it comes to relationships.”

From the perspective of love between people of color, Karla exclaims boldly through “The Woman Tells” the following – “Black love is the most powerful and the strongest love two people could ever have – not taking anything away from other races. Black love is based on several principles – respect, honor, loyalty, support and code. When you find those factors in a soulmate, the love becomes deeper. It’s one of the most powerful things one can have once it enters their lives.”