I was born in West Palm Beach, Florida and partially raised in Winston Salem, North Carolina. I attended Palm Beach Atlantic University in beautiful downtown West Palm Beach.I currently serve the public as an appointed official at a local governmental agency. I am also a political columnist/editor for Word on Da Streez Magazine in Metro-Atlanta, Georgia where I now reside.Put very simple--I love to write! In fact, there is a purpose for every word that I inscribe in that words are very powerful! I firmly believe that words possess the power of life and death. Manly Hall once said, "Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad".To that end, I chose my words very carefully. I speak life; I speak love; I speak peace; I speak prosperity into my life and into the lives of those whom I come in contact with.My novel, The Shame I Carry, is full of unanticipated twists and turns as Zion learns of his mother’s dream to start a new life with West Palm Beach, Florida's No. 1 street hustler, Mason Nubbin, but the drugs he introduced into their relationship marked her for a fate more like death than life.Even after Zion's mother had been gone for several years, no one thought it was important enough to tell Zion that his teen mother had been arrested and sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for international drug trafficking. No one bothered to tell him if or when he'd ever see her again.
After years of physical and sexual abuse, Zion lands himself into adulthood, utterly befuddled about his sexuality. Zion introduces drugs and wild sexacapades into this already toxic equation.They say everything a person wants is on the other side of fear. Zion is afraid of being a father--he doesn’t trust himself around his own son. He is afraid of being a husband because of his shameful history with men, and he is definitely not certain if he is capable of loving a woman.Readers will be forced to speculate if the born-again Zion will resort to killing in exchange for his freedom and only hope to be pardoned by that old sinner man cliché that we all use too often, “God knows my heart.†or will he turn the other cheek.
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