Four years of relationships, pledging, classes, finals, partying, and friendship is what three of Change for a Twenty’s characters reminisce on while planning their college graduation. This is... More > Memo’s, Arnez’s, and Jermaine’s time to collect caps and gowns, pursue their careers, and celebrate their success. However, Memo is trying to pursue a relationship with Seleste while dealing with the backlash of his corrupt cop father being released from prison. Jermaine has decided to propose to Cara, but she can’t seem to decide between him and Arnez. Arnez is still flirting and floating away, but now he has to deal with rumors on campus that could ruin his swagger. With a potential wedding in Atlanta, a graduation in Chicago, and some unfinished business in the boroughs of New York, their journeys are nonstop.< Less
Growing up is hard enough, but when five friends argue, cry, laugh, pledge, fight, and hang together on an HBCU campus, a bond is formed. Seleste is a college junior studying criminal justice,... More > denying her feelings for Memo, and facing the pressure of being a virgin when temptation surrounds her. Her best friend, Cara, is a college junior who lives in the dorms and has a friend with benefits, Arnez, who is more concerned with pledging with Jermaine than Arnez is with Cara. Jermaine is caught between the two because Cara is his ex-girlfriend and Arnez is in his ship. Arnez’s friend, Memo, is a troubled senior from New York who came to Chicago to escape his father's past as a crooked cop. Change for a Twenty is a fiction novel set in Chicago about five college friends, two nemeses, and the path to adulthood.< Less
Four years of relationships, pledging, classes, finals, partying, and friendship is what three of Change for a Twenty’s characters reminisce on while planning their college graduation. This is... More > Memo’s, Arnez’s, and Jermaine’s time to collect caps and gowns, pursue their careers, and celebrate their success. However, Memo is trying to pursue a relationship with Seleste while dealing with the backlash of his corrupt cop father being released from prison. Jermaine has decided to propose to Cara, but she can’t seem to decide between him and Arnez. Arnez is still flirting and floating away, but now he has to deal with rumors on campus that could ruin his swagger. With a potential wedding in Atlanta, a graduation in Chicago, and some unfinished business in the boroughs of New York, their journeys are nonstop.< Less
Growing up is hard enough, but when five friends argue, cry, laugh, pledge, fight, and hang together on an HBCU campus, a bond is formed. Seleste is a college junior studying criminal justice,... More > denying her feelings for Memo, and facing the pressure of being a virgin when temptation surrounds her. Her best friend, Cara, is a college junior who lives in the dorms and has a friend with benefits, Arnez, who is more concerned with pledging with Jermaine than Arnez is with Cara. Jermaine is caught between the two because Cara is his ex-girlfriend and Arnez is in his ship. Arnez’s friend, Memo, is a troubled senior from New York who came to Chicago to escape his father's past as a crooked cop. Change for a Twenty is a fiction novel set in Chicago about five college friends, two nemeses, and the path to adulthood.< Less
Four years of relationships, pledging, classes, finals, partying, and friendship is what three of Change for a Twenty’s characters reminisce on while planning their college graduation. This is... More > Memo’s, Arnez’s, and Jermaine’s time to collect caps and gowns, pursue their careers, and celebrate their success. However, Memo is trying to pursue a relationship with Seleste while dealing with the backlash of his corrupt cop father being released from prison. Jermaine has decided to propose to Cara, but she can’t seem to decide between him and Arnez. Arnez is still flirting and floating away, but now he has to deal with rumors on campus that could ruin his swagger. With a potential wedding in Atlanta, a graduation in Chicago, and some unfinished business in the boroughs of New York, their journeys are nonstop.< Less
Growing up is hard enough, but when five friends argue, cry, laugh, pledge, fight, and hang together on an HBCU campus, a bond is formed. Seleste is a college junior studying criminal justice,... More > denying her feelings for Memo, and facing the pressure of being a virgin when temptation surrounds her. Her best friend, Cara, is a college junior who lives in the dorms and has a friend with benefits, Arnez, who is more concerned with pledging with Jermaine than Arnez is with Cara. Jermaine is caught between the two because Cara is his ex-girlfriend and Arnez is in his ship. Arnez’s friend, Memo, is a troubled senior from New York who came to Chicago to escape his father's past as a crooked cop. Change for a Twenty is a fiction novel set in Chicago about five college friends, two nemeses, and the path to adulthood.< Less
About Shamontiel L. Vaughn
Shamontiel (pronounced Shuh mawn tee el) Latrice Vaughn is the author of two novels ("Round Trip" and "Change for a Twenty"); the Chicago Tribune's Digital News Editor (Breaking News, Health and National Travel pages, previously updated the Food & Dining page and produced health chats); and has over 800 articles in various print and online publications, including Yahoo! Contributor Network (formerly Associated Content); and Examiner.com's Chicago Relationship Examiner, Chicago News and Events Examiner, Chicago Black Hair and Health Examiner and Chicago Fragrance Examiner. Her work can also be found in Spoken Vizions magazine, Underlined Magazine, Citizens in America magazine, Fate Magazine, AT&T, Redeye, TheFrisky.com, HyPaChicago.org, Yahoo! News and Yahoo! TV.
This Chicago native graduated Cum Laude from Lincoln University (MO) with a Bachelor of Arts in English/Creative Writing.
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