SCHEDULE

Even though the weather in LA doesn't reflect it, Summer is over.

I've got one and a half months left to promote the hell out of (get it) "THE BLACK ALBUM: A Hollywood Horror Story." I'm also busy promoting "SPOOK: Confessions of a Psychic Spy" my upcoming novel (out November 17th). I would rather just write, but what good does it do you to write a book if no one knows it exists (it's like a tree falling in the woods). So I've got to market these little gems.

On an artistic note, I am very excited to have cracked a brand new storyline for my next novel "THE MOON BEAM RIDER." This is being adapted from a screenplay of mine that I was originally taking out with some people from the animated world. They wanted to produce it as a 3D animation movie. It was very PG, which isn't me. But now, I'm planning on turning it into a novel. MY first YA (young adult) book. This should appeal to tween and teen girls first and foremost. It's a novel about an overweight fangirl who transforms into a streamline heroine (the first book of this kind that I know of). I don't really like saying it's in the vein of "The Hunger Games," because it's totally different. But it should definitely appeal to that demographic and touch on some of the same themes. Plus, it will feature a very different kind of love story.

Anyway, I'm very happy to begin work on it. I'm hoping to have it finished by early 2015!

http://www.brooklynapachepress.com/spook.html

FREAK KING REVIEW OF SPOOK

Below is a review of my novel "SPOOK: Confessions of a Psychic Spy" by my colleague Beauregard Freidkin of the Midnite Review. I was counting on a good review from him by virtue of the fact he had read and endorsed my book. However, when I read the very first sentence of the review, I got a little queasy. Then it turned into my best review ever. Very glad. I worked hard on this.

BOOK REVIEW

By Beauregard Freidkin



While at first glance of the book cover - an angry Black man holding a smoking gun behind the title Spook - you may gasp at the political incorrectness and dismiss it as a blaxploitation version of a genre thriller. But if you did, you would be so wrong. "SPOOK: Confessions of a Psychic Spy" is so much more than just a spy novel with a paranormal twist. It's a meditation on racism, the duality of man, and lose of innocence. This novel is social commentary at its highest level disguised as science fiction.

The protagonist, John, is an African American who is a powerful remote viewer. He is also a tragic creation of the author's in that John, although used by the CIA as a psychic spy, is despised and hated by the men he works for. At the same time, because of John's clandestine alliance with the government, Black men and women of the period - shoeshine boys, maids, bathroom attendants, the labor force of America - sensing his difference, fear him. John is an outcast at every turn whose only acceptance ironically comes from the foreign psychic spies he is pitted against across Europe and behind the Iron Curtain. Conjointly, this Cold War era is also the decade of the Civil Rights and Peace movements, as well as the Women's Liberation movement, adding to the unpredictable powder keg of a setting.

The author, Carlton Holder, promises a series of books taking our tormented hero through the Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties, right up to the end of the cold War. I can't wait to see how John changes and is changed by an America in upheaval. Thanks for something different.

http://www.brooklynapachepress.com/spook.html

ON SALE NOVEMBER 17TH!

COMING SOON

POWER TO THE PEOPLE! 

Check out my novel in November. 

Don't be no jive ass turkey!

http://www.brooklynapachepress.com/spook.html

BACK ON THE BLOG

Summer is over, my world sojourns - or at least nationwide travels - are over for the moment (sadness).

AND...

I'm back behind my laptop again - like a mad scientist in his laboratory - (happiness).

In other words, I'M BACK ON THE BLOG!

I'm putting the finishing touches on the SPOOK TV PILOT script and will be going out to Networks with it, as well as directors.

The SPOOK novel will be released NOVEMBER 17TH 2014 and will be available on both the Internet and in SELECT STORES IN LOS ANGELES.

There are a few other things in the works, but I can't talk about them just yet.

On HALLOWEEN I'll officially release the SPOOK BOOK COVER SPREAD.

I'll also soon begin work on my third novel and first YA: "THE MOON BEAM RIDER." So I'm very excited about that.

ONE LAST NOTE...

I'M MAKING ADVANCE COPIES OF MY NOVEL AVAILABLE TO PUBLICATION BOOK REVIEWERS AND BOOK REVIEW BLOGGERS! So let me know if you're interested in reading it. I'm also going to be setting up interviews regarding the book.

TO ALL YOU OTHER CREATIVES OUT THERE... HAPPY PITCHING!!!