I started writing early on in my teens (Journaling) I found it very relaxing and satisfying. I like to think of myself as a 'deep thinker'.

Actually, it started out as an entry into my journal. Journaling for me is to simply reflect; it keeps me centered. This book is not actually a story. It's a series of observations and conclusions I've come to concerning the notorious level of homophobia in the black community.

Oprah Winfrey believe it or not. I saw a promo for her network where she stated; "Everyone has a story, can you tell yours?". I was bit by the writers bug right then.

Well, this would be only my second book, the first hasn't done well at all. I'm learning as I go and having a blast!

I keep surprising myself. Writing is very entertaining to me because sometimes a paragraph will take on it's own life and begin to write itself. It's surprising to find out some of the things that's been running in and around my head.

I only have private fans now, and they are my pillars.

It's a work of fiction of about an African American gay man who's a veteran going to the rescue of his orphaned nephew, with the help of a phew close and new friends. It's mature reading with controversial subject matter; child abuse and molestation.

Stephen King, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Dean Coonts, to name a few.

Actually new ideas on a book I might be working on.

Playing chess.

I search.

Yes, it was about a farm where an old spinster turned young handsome men into farm animals.

A cup of green tea, a clear head and imagine a story i would love to read and just begin writing it.

It was a short story about Billie Holliday in my language arts class, I fell in love with her and biographies.

Biographies. I read my first biography about Marie Anttionette many years ago, and I was mesmerized by it. Not that her story was so compelling, it had more to do with the history telling from another point of view. I find real life stories more palatable than any other kind of story. It's just more engrossing to know what people can survive, and sometimes not.

The Nook. Only because it was the first device I've used, and now I'm just used to it. I'm sure all of the other devices are just as good, or maybe even better, but for my money it's the Nook.

Devising a provocative cover. You have to consider the title, the color scheme. For instance a children's book would have to colorful with bold shapes; Like candy, even though it something else all together different. The trick is to get their attention. You have to think this way also when marketing for a mature audience; subtle subject matter hints.

It's a wall unit actually. I keep a lot junk to play with within my reach when I get stuck on a story. Something will jog my memory of something and ideas spring from that. I spend most of the day there sometimes not writing anything.

I grew up in Brooklyn New York. Even though we wore the same clothes, ate the same foods, shopped at the same malls and spoke with the same Brooklynite accents, every body had a different story unique to them. Everybody has a story to tell that somebody wants to read about. And that what keeps me writing.

I peruse the internet for pictures that catch my attention. I scroll quickley and will stop to go back to something that caught my eye. I look at the colors and shapes of the items that catch me. It may have nothing at all to do with what I'm writing, but I'll juxtapose shapes and colors with words in the title and work from there. However when I'm writing gay erotica, I'll use stock photographs of men in compromising situations. Men are visual creatures, gay, straight or otherwise. The cover is the first impression, you have to throw the meat and potatoes out front.