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
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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
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Solitary Man
Former Detective John Mathews was still quick on the draw, only now it was with the handle of the tap of a domestic micro brew or an imported dark. He let the head foam up, his precision in the pull preventing any of the thick fo
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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In the effort to get the word out about the Darkside Trilogy, I am asking those of you who read Conception to drop by the Critters Writers Workshop and drop a vote for Conception for Sci-Fi Novel Of The Year; of course unless you read something bette
William Hayashi has given birth to an extraordinary story, defining a new era in the Black Science Fiction genre!
By Khafra K. Omrazeti "ancient text"
Hayashi's "Darkside Trilogy" is shaping up to be a masterpiece, one that provides an exciting reading
Read more…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
For those awaiting Conception to be available, it is now on sale at Amazon.com for under $20!
Conception: Volume 2 of the Darkside Trilogy
It makes a great Halloween Gift!
Read more…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
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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…A couple of things have been rattling around in my mind since the Zimmerman verdict in Florida.
The first is how this is still a white country, and that white privilege still rules over all other concerns except for cash. This is never more apparent g
First conceive of a story bigger than any other story about white and black America previously written. Set it in an alternative present so that the actions, characters and story line are all as plausible a reality as the world we live in today.
Next,
Discovery deals with America’s, and then the world’s, awakening upon learning of a group of people secretly living on the backside of the moon, and what happens when it is discovered that those living on the moon are African Americans.
Conception, d
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
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