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Writing Business

The business of writing is more fun than the writing business.  It is exciting to develop a character and have them come to life on the page.  It is a thrill to hear someone read your story and share it in their own way.  That is what motivates me to do the needful marketing things that make you wonder if you are being a pest to those that already know you.  It is that hope that someone out there in the great unknown of the internet or maybe ...

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Cosplayers Wanted

I love the fall of the year here in the Mid-Atlantic. Especially around the Halloween time. We start to see the Pumpkin lattes, muffins, and themed everything in the stores. It’s also the perfect time to do a book launch for the Solomon Love book number three, Love Never Dies. To make it fun, and memorable and fun. (so nice I did it twice) I am going to throw a series of Werewolf themed parties. Going to try to have a book signing at my friend...

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Five things you need to know to write a successful book

If you want to write a book or have one already that isn’t selling let me give you some insight.  If you are doing it to make money then I have some sage advice from Thomas Edison.   This week I received a proof of two books I published through Amazon’s CreateSpace program.  I am excited about it.  It looks great.  It was a side project that I had to do like a drug addict needs a fix.  I gave up sleep and money I didn’t have to do thi...

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Love Never Dies

Coming Soon Ever wonder what happened to Magdalena?  You’ll find out that and more in this third edition that promises to be the best of them all.  She is hot.  She is dangerous.  She is looking for Solomon. Follow the journey of Solomon Love as the monster that turns him finally meets him again in Love Never Dies.  ...

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Voodoo Child

Solomon Love finds himself in New Orleans after being warned never to go there.  Find out what happens when a werewolf that has been hiding in plain sight for centuries in nightclubs playing the blues finds himself in trouble with the practitioners of Voodoo seeking to kill him and take his life force. Voodoo Child....

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Where The Moss Grows

This is the first book of the series. These are the tales of Solomon Love. Who while escaping American slavery became bound to the world of the supernatural. Now a reclusive blues musician, he is haunted by his past, hunted for his curse and fighting for survival in the present. What would happen to a young African musician kidnapped and sold into slavery in North America, seduced by his slave masters Druid daughter, caught and beaten, presumed a...

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Solomon Love
/ August 8, 2018

Who is Solomon Love? Born in what is now the west African country of Gambia, Sulayman, an aspiring musician and storyteller, of the tradition of “akonting” was captured by British slavers and sold as a slave in North America in the 1700’s. Accused of raping his white mistress, the plantation owners’ daughter, he was publically whipped until presumed dead in the courtyard of a huge estate, to be removed in the morning. Barely liv...