HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!! Holiday Economic Support Initiative/HESI

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!  For those of you that celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope that you had a great holiday, and were able to enjoy your families and loved ones in this crazy time of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Hope that you were able to enjoy a hearty meal with family, and have ease of mind, at least for one day during this trying year...

 

As Thanksgiving comes to a close, I would like to encourage everyone to participate in the Holiday Economic support Initiative/HESI.  I came up with this initiative back in 2016, as a way to help combat against the racial violence that was affecting and inflicting our communities by the powers that be through gentrification, and through physical violence through murders committed by the police, and vigilantes.  It is a financial call to arms to financially support our businesses, our entrepreneurs, and our creative artists (visual, musical, literary, etc.).  The initiative generally lasts from Thanksgiving/Black Friday through to New Years Day.

 

PLEASE help to participate in this initiative by supporting our indie artists, black-owned businesses, and our entrepreneurs.  If WE don't support our own people in these business and artistic endeavors, who will?  We are not taken seriously in this society, as is evidently proven just about every day, and was visible to all for the last four years, and MANY many more years, before then.  To support and participate in this movement, please use the hashtags #HolidayEconomicSupportInitiative, or #HESI for any business, entrepreneur, or indie artist that you support.  Include their Facebook page, Twitter or InstaGram handle, or a picture of their business, or product with the hashtag.  We need to help and promote our businesses and entrepreneurs in order for them to be able to survive, and remain solvent.  I also speak a bit about the initiative in my latest video of "The Rough Draft" posted to YouTube; Episode 27 to be exact.

 

Please participate, support, and help to spread the word!

 

Keep the fist raised.

 

#AlwaysOnMyLiteraryGrind

 

    

***NEW*** 2021 Book Release!!! :-D

 MARK....YOUR....CALENDARS!!!!

 

 

I've finalized my plans for my NEXT BOOK RELEASE!!!  I will be publishing my novel "Knuckle Up" (Kindle Direct Publishing, 2021) next year in 2021.  The date for the book release will be January 22, 2021!!!  This will be my THIRTEENTH book, and EIGHTH novel!!!  Yaaaay!!!

 

 

Set in 2005, the novel follows the boxing career of Mandinga "The Manhandler" Mason, a fighter from the streets of Red Hook, Brooklyn.  As she transitions from the amateur ranks into the pros, you see the trials and tribulations that she goes through in her career.  Will she be able to go on to have a successful fight career, or will she allow her inner demons to derail her boxing career?  What secrets is her new trainer, Yusef Johns, hiding?  What derailed his boxing career, to lead him into training?

January 22, 2021!!!  Mark your calendars!!!  There is already a Facebook Event posted online!!!

Keep the fist raised!!!

#AlwaysOnMyLiteraryGrind
 

November News....

 We have entered into the month of November.  The numbers of deaths from the coronavirus has reached 230,000+ people.  Also, the presidential election has just passed, as as of this post, they are still counting the votes.  The last time I checked, the Democratic candidate, former V.P. Joe Biden was ahead in the electoral college vote 263 to 214 against (so-called) President Donald Trump.  My nephew Enrique's birthday is this coming Monday, November 9th, and my childhood best friend from junior high school Alexander also has his birthday this weekend; Sunday November 8th, to be exact.

Yep...we're living in interesting times.  At least the year is almost over.  2020 has been a whopper of a year.  A lot of death, and a lot of other losses.

My web series "The Rough Draft" is going well.  I just posted Episode 26 on YouTube.  Wish that I could get a few more views and a lot more feedback for my online work.  Comments help, people!!!  A few purchases wouldn't hurt, either.  The books are available in both paperback AND eBook formats, so you have NO excuse for not supporting the writing career.  You'd think that, after doing this shit consistently for TEN years, people would actually start to take me seriously, by now....

Speaking of books...NEW PUBLISHING RELEASE!!!  :-D

I finished writing "Knuckle Up" (Kindle Direct Publishing, 2021).  The cover art is finished, the backcover synopsis is done, and the project is ready for publication.  I've finally chosen a release date for the book.  Be on the lookout for the book to drop on January 22, 2021!!!

That's all for now.  Looking forward to keeping you guys in the loop.  Catch you in the next post!

Keep the fist raised.

#AlwaysOnMyLiteraryGrind