A long time ago, on a planet really nearby, I started a list of actors who I thought would play the characters in the first installment of The Darkside Trilogy were it to come to the screen.
I have a page from my Daytimer dated November 21, 2009. In i
Read more…Chapter 2
Good Vibrations
The takeoff from Los Angeles International Airport was as smooth as it was familiar. Patrick Jensen had been back and forth between LA and Houston more times than he could count. On most flights he spent the time working on hi
The final installment of The Darkside Trilogy is on its way.
Editing of the manuscript is in its last stage, and cover art by Winston Blakely is shaping up well.
For those few of you who have read the first two installments of the trilogy I offer a pee
Read more…In an effort to give readers a little better look at the second installment of the Darkside Trilogy, as I did for Discovery: Volume 1 of the Darkside Trilogy, I'm including the second chapter of Conception.
Chapter 2
Nitty Gritty
The silent trip through
Yes, I officially put the final chapter to bed tonight.
There's still the formidable task of editing the story, maybe moving a thing or two around, but I'm very happy to report that the long slog is done.
Read more…I am scheduled to appear in my old neighborhood at the DuSable Museum Gift Shop on February 8, 2014 from 1-4 PM to autograph copies of both Discovery and Conception.
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As most or all of you know, the road to getting the second installment of the Darkside Trilogy published and on sale is over, and frankly I'm relieved.
I had finished the manuscript last July or August and getting it edited and dealing with the fulfil
As of 17:20 CDT, September 7, 2013 all the files for Conception have been completed and converted for upload to be assembled into the finished book.
As I sit here, I marvel at the fact that I have actually written a second novel. Though when you set
Read more…Looking for some input...
In advance of the release of Conception, Volume 2 of the Darkside Trilogy I am toying with offering autographed, high-res, suitable for framing prints of the Conception and Discovery book covers.
I'm also looking into acquirin
Read more…For those who have read Discovery, and await for the publication of Conception, your wait is almost over.
The artwork has been started for the cover, I had to wait for the artist for Walking Dead to complete that work before he could begin to work the
Read more…The second installment of the Darkside Trilogy is due out soon. The book is written, awaiting final edits and artwork.
The issue that our technologically advanced Black Separatists, who hid from humanity on the backside of the moon while they built th
Read more…Just last night I was in a discussion with a racially mixed group of middle and upper middle class folks at, of all places, a tennis club. The discussion got around to my series of novels and I asked everyone, regardless of color, "If offered the opp
Read more…I had the good fortune to speak with one of my last readers for Conception, Volume Two of the Darkside Trilogy. Good fortune in that he's well over eighty years old, and a white man.
His perspective is valuable because he's one of the few white men of
Read more…As I've mentioned before, Conception, Volume 2 in the series tells the 40 year story of those discovered in volume one, Discovery.
I have several readers who have been given copies of the Conception manuscript; black, white, men, women, older, younger
Read more…I posted a link to the YouTube video of the screen adaptation of Sam Greenlee's novel The Spook Who Sat By The Door in the Videos section here. I read the book in high school and was immediately intrigued by the idea as well as the execution of the s
Read more…For those who would like to get a peek at the first installment of the trilogy, I am posting the first four chapters to whet your appetite, beginning with Chapter 1.
Would you like to swing on a star,
Or carry moonbeams home in a jar?
Swinging on a St
I Said Shotgun,
Shoot It For They Run Now
Shotgun
Written by Jr. Walker, performed by Jr. Walker & The All Stars
CHAPTER 2
The world press only reported on the political and military situation in Iraq from the perspective of the West. At this time no one
Different strokes for different folks,
And so on, and so on, and scooby, dooby, dooby
Everyday People
Written by Sly Stone, performed by Sly & and The Family Stone
CHAPTER 3
Detective John Mathews had been working in the Atlanta Police Department’s Missin
