ABOUT TRIPLE TAKE: After serving ten years for armed robbery, Jonathan “JC†Cole is about to get out of the joint, and he has one thing on his mind: revenge against the three men-former childhood friends, now powerful crime lords-who betrayed him to save their own skins. Richard “Richkid†Kidman is a Playa with a capital P, at one time controlling a stable of twelve women. Alonzo “Zo†Johnson is one of the richest drug dealers in the Windy City. And Eugene “Lil G†Pierce ranks among the most successful con men on the East Coast.JC feels that the time has come for him to claim what is rightfully his. His misfortune was his ex-friends’ stepping-stone, and now it is time for them to pay up-in spades. He doesn’t want to kill them, he just wants to take everything away.He does this with the help of his woman, Champagne; his best friend, Rat; and Rat’s girlfriend, Shaunna. They form a family of sorts, with JC as the leader and Champagne as the fierce mother hen, together embarking on an exciting journey into the underworld of Chicago. “Triple Take explodes off the page-a blood-soaked, guns-blazing literary assault on the senses. In Triple Take, novelist Y. Blak Moore proves himself the reincarnation of Donald Goines. In the years to come, this literary prodigy may just prove himself the voice of his generation.†-David Isay, public-radio producer and co-author of Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago
FANS OF STREET LIT/URBAN LIT/HIP-HOP LIT. Positive people on any level. Talented people. People that love and make good music. People that love and write good books. My people and others. An alien or two. A literary agent that's worth a damn. A publishing house that knows how to promote and believes in their authors.(Wishful thinking)
ABOUT THE APOSTLES: The Apostles run Chicago’s streets. Their leader, “Solemn Shawn†Terson, is the most revered-and feared-man in town. Because of his past exploits, the Apostles have a loyalty among its members that has reached mythic proportions.When Insane Wayne, a former member of the rival gang, the Governors, comes groveling for admission to the coveted Apostles, he’s quickly turned down. His reaction is violent: He shoots a Governor and plants evidence that lays the murder rap on the Apostles, setting off a bloody series of retaliations.Solemn Shawn is ready to give up the gang world. His pregnant girlfriend wants another way of life and the cops are hot on his tail; he knows the time has come to step aside. But he must fight one more street war before handing over the reins of his empire. The head of the Governors has a score to settle with Shawn that dates back to their prison days-and Shawn and the Apostles must fight or flee as the streets around them erupt in violence. . . . "Every nail-biting, adrenaline-laced, heart-racing page of The Apostles kept me on the edge of my seat." --Nikki Turner, author of The Hustler's Wife"Y. Blak Moore's The Apostles is the truth, naked and unashamed." -Solomon Jones, author of Ride Or Die
ABOUT SLIPPING:Growing up in a Chicago ghetto, seventeen-year-old Donald “Don-Don†Haskill has nothing but time on his hands-time he rarely spends in school, choosing instead to smoke weed and hang out with friends. As a child, he witnessed his father’s suicide, and today Don-Don’s relationship with his mother, a worn-down cop trying to keep the family together is tenuous at best. Then Don-Don meets a girl with a taste for crack-and his delinquent life turns violently criminal.Consumed with chasing his next hit, alienating even his best friends, Don-Don works the streets like a pro. In pursuit of the demon, no deal is too shady. But when a huge drug transaction goes terribly awry, a bloody chain of events is set off, as Don-Don becomes a moving target, not just for the Chicago police force but for the ghetto’s most hardened thugs. . . .
I'm a Law & Order, CSI, Cold Case Files, First 48, Orange County Choppers, Biker Build Off, Forensic Files nut. I dig on the History Channel stuff too, checking out bogus dudes like Hitler and Saddam. As far as sitcoms, Everybody Loves Chris(when I can catch it) Will & Grace, Sanford & Son, A Different World, Spin City, and Seinfeld. Wish they'd bring back Samuria Sunday. Watch cartoons with my son too.
MY BOOKS: TRIPLE TAKE, THE APOSTLES, AND SLIPPING.(Shameless self-plug. What?!) .. I used to read anything that I can get my hands on, especially conspiracy stuff but I've lightened up lately. By that I mean, I only read for entertainment's sake or unless it's a requirement for something I'm working on. I don't mind having other people's regurgitated ideas in my head, but I had to get to the point when I needed to find out what I think about things like world policy or whatever for myself. FAVORITE AUTHORS: Iceberg Slim and Donald Goines. Hate them if you dare.
Never thought about heroes much. I admire many people like Malcolm X, Russell Simmons, Tyler Perry, the Hughes Brothers, Khari B, Zo the Alkhemist, Big Rob, people that stand for something and sacrifice much for their crafts and way of life. If I had to pick a hero or shero it would be like Harriet Tubman and Nat Turner.