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29 October 2010

How to Write Your Non-Fiction Book in 60 Days

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1. Decide on a Topic

Start by identifying your target audience. Who do you want your book to reach? Are you writing for your clients, single mothers, consultants, teenagers, retired baby boomers? Knowing your audience will help you make important decisions when building your content. You should always keep your audience in mind as you develop your book.

2. Know Your Book’s Unique Value

There were over 480,000 books published in 2008 alone, so if you’re worried that there is not enough room in the world for a book like yours, don’t be so sure. The key is to establish how your book will be different or better than the competition. Determine what unique value you will bring to your readers.

3. Choose Your Process

You don’t have to be professionally- trained writer to develop a book. Here are several options:

- Hire a ghost writer

- Enlist a co-author

- Dictate your book on audio and use software such as Professionally Speaking to convert it to text

- Get your thoughts on paper and hire a good editor to turn it into a manuscript

- Assemble an anthology of contributions from others

4. Leverage Content You Already Have

Your book may already be further along than you realize. If you have created content for your business, you may be able to use it for your book. Here are some places to look:

- Articles and blog posts you have written

- Hand- outs you have developed

- Surveys you have conducted

- Case studies and client success stories

- Seminars, videos, and recordings you have made that can be transcribed

- Contributions from others (articles, interviews, case studies, etc., with their permission, of course)

5. Get Started with an Outline

Everyone has their own unique process for writing, though most writers will tell you that they start with some sort of outline. I recommend using a storyboard process.

Start with a blank wall and a stack of Post- it notes. Write each and every topic idea you want to cover in your book on a Post- it and stick it to the wall. Once you have all of your ideas out, move the notes around until they form some kind of logical order. This is a great way to identify your chapters, how much content you have for each, and where you need to add more content. You can transfer everything to an outline or simply work off of your wall of ideas.

6. Begin the Writing Process

Once you know what topics to cover, you are ready to begin writing (or dictating, assembling content you already have, or inviting others to contribute). The idea of writing a book can seem overwhelming, but if you tackle it in small pieces, it can begin to come together quickly.

We are in a technology- driven age and most of us have short attention spans. Approach each topic as if you were writing a short article. To make it easier for you and your reader, break up the text. Use plenty of sub- headings and bullets for easier reading. Include quotes from people you have interviewed, provide resources for additional information, and compile brief sidebar tips to enhance the reader’s experience.

7. Make Time to Write

One of the biggest excuses that aspiring authors have is a lack of time to get a book written. Like anything else in life, if you want it badly enough, you have to find a way to make it happen.

You may want to plan your writing time around when you are most creative. Are you a morning person or a night owl? Perhaps you need to get up an hour earlier or stay up an hour later. It is important to discover your own unique process. Some writers are disciplined and write during a set time each day. Some schedule one or two days each week for writing. With my busy schedule, I actually check in to a hotel for a weekend and write, write, write! It’s all about what works best for you.

8. Cross the Finish Line

The average book manuscript is between 60,000 to 80,000 words. Two typed pages are the equivalent of around 1000 words. So if you wrote just two pages per day, your book would be done in 60 days!

Once your manuscript is complete, you will begin the editing process. If you are new to writing, it would be wise to hire an experienced editor to help. Of course you have many options for getting your book into print. Whether you want to pursue a traditional publisher or self- publishing, the options are abundant. A good book coach can also help you make some of these decisions.

No matter what publishing options you pursue, writing a book is a big achievement and can have a tremendous impact on your life. Set a goal to finally write that book this year and you will embark on a fantastic journey.

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28 October 2010

The Richest Man in Babylon Book Review

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The Richest Man in Babylon is an inspirational book that is derived from the Babylonian parables on personal wealth and financial planning.

That’s right kids, gather around it’s story time! You will get to hear the tale of Babylon, a city that lies on the brink of an economical recession, but due to the quick thinking of the King is able to find a solution to the economical disaster facing the city.

After the King’s major projects were finished, the workforce was unable to find employment to earn a wage. Because of this, farmers were unable to sell their produce to the local population and a few men with the “know how” were able to accumulate vast fortunes. The richest man in Babylon, Arkad, is summoned before the king to explain how he became so wealthy.

The King learns that this method is teachable to the local population and almost immediately Arkad begins his teachings.

Arkad’s teachings are about the “seven cures for a lean purse” which have such a tremendous resemblance to the advice given today make it uncertain why everyone isn’t rich.

As you read you will begin to see familiarity in these teachings but you will also become familiar with how much of the advice you didn’t take or use in your own lives. The seven principles taught in this book are the vital components of almost every fortune made, even in this new age.

This book is well worth the read but if you are used to receiving good advice and not acting on it, this book may not be for you. I give this book a 9/10 for the excellent reiteration of the stories of Babylon and the inspiration to use this advice in today’s world.

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27 October 2010

Book Writing - 5 Reasons You Should Plan While Writing a Non Fiction Book

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Good project management says that planning before you start a writing project is a good thing. And many writing systems say you need to plan your writing before you do it. But people seldom come out and tell you straight up why.

So here are five reasons you should plan while writing a non fiction book:

1. Provide focus for your book. If you start off just writing a non fiction book you could end up with just about anything. Your book could go off into a side discussion. You could end up repeating information three or four times from different viewpoints. You could end up with a whole different book than what you started from. While a fiction writer can live with this (but shouldn’t) since the story lives only in the writer’s head, a non fiction writer can’t. After all, a non fiction writer’s subject is well known by many people. And they will know where the book should go. Even if the writer didn’t.

2. Narrow down the options. There are a lot of options when writing a non fiction book. Even just in the physical form of the book. You need to limit those options or the tasks of designing and writing a book will become overwhelming. Besides, if you don’t plan you may find out that your book is outside the parameters your chosen distribution method can accept. Finding out your wonderful tome is too long for a publisher is not a good thing!

3. Ensure there is a market for your book. A book without a reader is a lonely, pitiful object without purpose or value. By determining your market before you begin, and then writing to meet that market’s needs, you will ensure that more than just your mother will read your book.

4. Keep your readers coming back for more. Getting an agent, editor and publisher interested is a good thing. But keeping a reader reading until the end is even better. That’s what will ensure your agent, editor and publisher talk to you again. The only way to keep a reader interested to the end with a non fiction book is to write what interests the reader from the start. You have to solve their problems or help them avoid a pain point. That’s the only way to guarantee your reader’s interest.

5. Identify alternatives to this book. Look, you’ve done all the research. You’ve spent a lot of time, effort and maybe money up to this point. You’ve identified your perfect reader. Maybe you’ve even written your book. And sold it. Wouldn’t it make sense to get as much out of this expense as you can? By planning up front, you’ll be able to identify where you can write a second book. One that doesn’t rehash the same information. Or you can identify where you can present a course. One that will help sell copies of your book. By identifying alternatives to this book, both up front and as you go, you’ll be prepared when opportunities knocks.

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26 October 2010

Writing Fiction - Can it Be Done?

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Writing means many different things to many different people, in fact it is hard not to love writing something. Of course most people would sooner be published at some point but then we would want to do more than one book, so the cycle will begin again. it is a rather fun cycle and one which can be fun and exhausting all in the same moment.

Still there is a subject which most people love to talk about. Writing fiction. It is one of the more challenging types of writing out there. As I normally write nonfiction, fiction seems to be harder and more intricate. Still I have to ask, writing fiction, can it be done?

Below are three reasons why I believe that yes anyone can write fiction, and many more can write a good fiction novel and more can write some great fiction novels.

1) When you do the research you can make a fiction book as realistic as you want. All fiction has some basis in the “real world.” It is simply you, the writer who adds the details, the spin which makes it fiction. The best fiction writers do this well, and make the readers fall in love with the people and places they create.

2) Fiction writing offers a creative outlet that nonfiction often does not: Fiction allows more creative room than nonfiction simply because the art is in the authors writing and not with the facts that they need to make interesting. This does not mean that they will simply write what they want, all fiction has a small basis in reality. This includes fantasy novels and science fiction novels. All writers need to research their work, and that includes fiction writes, but they do have a bit more leeway in terms of how they deliver the facts to their readers.

3) Yes there is a market for fiction writers: Although it is probably easier to break into the fiction market if you have a few nonfiction books, (having that fan base) it is still possible to sell great fiction books as a first time author. It has been done, and will be done again. A great book always rises to the top. Writers who have a plan for their fiction will find more success in the market. They have used the creative side of the brain and will find it easy to make a good marketing plan for the book they have written.

So yes, writing fiction is not only fun, but with time and practice it can be done. Just takes a few breaks in between to write it well. You simply need to keep on writing.

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25 October 2010

How to Write a Book Review (for a Fiction Book)

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One of the best gifts you can give to an author, to thank them for writing a book you’ve read, is to write a simple, one-paragraph review–good or bad. This kind of review is great for posting on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, GoodReads, Google Books, and other similar sites. You can even turn it into a quick blog post, with a little bit of enhancement.

Here’s how to write one:

First, ask yourself a few simple questions:
What struck you the best about the book? This could be one of the characters, the way the author tells her story, the quality of her prose, or anything else that strikes you in a positive way.
What struck you the worst about the book? Again, this can be any quality or characteristic of the book.
Do you plan to read more books in the series (if applicable) or by the same author?
How did the story make you feel? This is especially important for fiction, but a good non-fiction book should make you feel something, too: agitated, excited, hopeful, depressed, introspective, or whatever.
What one biggest lesson, discovery, or new idea did you take away from the book? This is especially important for non-fiction, but a good fiction book should expose you to new ideas and make you think, and so it too should have a take-away.

Write the answers down in paragraph form, using a word-processor or text editor… or using the “Stickies” application on your Mac. You don’t have to be fancy about what you write. Just write casually, as though you were telling a friend about the book, around the water cooler.
Rate the book on a scale of 1 to 5 stars. The rating system I use is very simple, and I can instantly come up with a consistent rating, based on my gut-reaction to a book. No complex analysis required.
1 star — I hated it. (And if I really hated it, ½ star, for those sites that support such a low rating.)
2 stars — I didn’t like, and didn’t hate it, either. (This is the worst rating, because it means the book didn’t even make enough of an impact for me to hate it.)
3 stars — I liked it, but I probably won’t be reading more books like it, if I can help it.
4 stars — I really liked it, enough so that I would like to read more books like it (or the same book over again), someday.
5 stars — I loved it, so much that I feel a sense of loss for having finished it, so much that I long to read more books like this (not “someday” but right now), so much that I can almost taste the next book in the series and can’t wait for Amazon to deliver it, so much that… Well, you get the idea, right?

Post your review on Amazon.comBarnesAndNoble.comGoodReads.combooks.LivingSocial.combooks.Google.com, and any other book sites you frequent that accept user reviews. Just log in to the site (if required), copy and paste your paragraph into the form on each site, select the appropriate number of stars according to your rating, and submit your review.
Bonus: Repurpose the review as a blog post for your blog. Entitle the post something like “Book Review: [book title]” or a similarly descriptive title. Write the words “Publisher’s description:” and copy and paste the book description from the publisher’s information at Amazon. Or alternatively, copy the book description from the book’s back cover, and preface it with the words “From the back cover:” or the like. After the publisher’s description, paste in your one-paragraph review. Then give your rating at the end.

If you’re an author, you probably appreciate how meaningful reader reviews are. We know that readers don’t always love our books, at least not as much as we love them. But always for an author, the challenge is to get noticed. And reader reviews not only help your favorite author get noticed, they’ll also comfort him that people are indeed reading his books.

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24 October 2010

Writing Your Book - How to Begin

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When I was doing publicity for my books, I met so many people at book signings, on television and radio shows - and believe it not, on the street or in a supermarket who told me the same thing.

“As soon as I have time - or when I retire, I am going to write a book. I have an idea that I think is very interesting.”

I always had the same answer for them. “Nobody has time. If you want to be a writer I have a one word for you. Write.” They always looked at me a little doubtfully and it occurred to me that people just don’t know where to start.

Starting is the hardest part. But, you have already started if you have an idea. Books are never written overnight. They develop as they go along. You could almost liken it to taking a whole steak and trying to swallow it. You have to cut it piece by piece to eat it. By the time you are finished, you have had dinner.

The other objection is that the starting has to be perfect. Every word, every punctuation mark. Most authors will tell you that you should not edit a book until it is finished. You are not going to be ready to show your new baby to the world until you give birth so the beginning is to write it for yourself.

Most books, except for novels have an introduction. So, the first step is to go to your computer and write what your book is about. Or, if you write like I do, I start with a yellow pad of paper.

The next part is why you are writing it? Who is it directed to? How will it benefit the reader? What will they find in the pages?

Here is an snippet from the introduction of my last book, Reflections from a Woman Alone.

“This is about women. Single women who are also perhaps mothers, friends, credit card jugglers, car-poolers, entrepreneurs, lovers, workers, gardeners, even grandmothers. In short-a person trying to be everything to everybody and still have a life. I know there are some serenely, happily coupled women out there who do all the same things, and if you are one of them, I don’t want to exclude you. You never know when you might need a reference guide to what it’s really like out there as a single woman. And - male readers? Sure. Come along. It wouldn’t hurt for you to learn something about how women really think.”

If you will notice it says right away what the book is about. And in general, who it is directed towards. Use this as a guide when you write your introduction. You may discard your first copy of your introduction later but this is not your final draft. This is to refine your purpose in writing your book. This is for you to get your head around what you will be writing. Remember, do not edit this. You do that later.

In general, if you are not writing an epic like War and Peace, aim for a book of approximately 200 -250 pages. Whether it is a novel or a memoir or a self-help book. A book longer than that is not as easily saleable. But, if you have a lot to say, this is only a suggestion. That usually breaks down to about 20 chapters with about ten pages in a chapter. That doesn’t sound so ominous, does it?

I suggest you make a tentative list of what each chapter will contain. But this is not written in stone either. The introduction is your guide. Next, after that first strict rule about the introduction, you have a lot of leeway. The book does not have to follow a prescribed sequence while you are writing.

Take the movies, for example. I was surprised when I found out that they did not shoot a movie in order starting from the first scene and ending with the finale. They shoot almost anywhere in the script and are mostly governed by the location of the scene. It is cheaper to do it that way. You have the cameras right there. So, you could literally write the last chapter next. Then, skip to the middle. Remember you are the architect. At the end, you will go over the whole thing and put it in the sequence that makes sense just as if you were editing a movie.And you do not have to write a complete chapter at one time.

My experience is that the “muse” shows up at odd times. When you are taking a shower, waiting for a long red light to change or on hold for the telephone company. Or even if you wake at night. Just make sure that you always have a pad and pen handy so you can write down your thoughts. I guarantee if you wait until later, they will have disappeared.

Put all these pieces of paper with your latest brilliant thought in an expandable manila folder. You could label each one according to the chapter you think it might fit in later but it is an inexact science. Just write down the fragments. Write stories about what has happened today. Especially, if they are unusual or funny. They will plump out your book. Or even be a springboard for a whole chapter.

Writing a novel is not much different. Your “introduction” will be the story you are telling. Who are the characters? What do they look like? What is the start of the book and how do they end up? What happens to them along the way? It is more of an outline. A rough sketch. A storyboard.

Writing a whole book can feel overwhelming. That’s why you are saying it takes time. We all have little pieces of time that we waste every day. Use them. You are a writer. You told me that. Write. A quote attributed to Goethe says it all -

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it;

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

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23 October 2010

Best New Fantasy Book Series

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Fantasy writing is probably THE example of imagination at its highest. The author is creating a whole new world - one filled with dragons, creatures, rules of magic - very different from the reality we know. Unlike science fiction which pushes the boundaries of physics and biology, fantasy pushes something more inward, belief and wishes. For the most part people don’t believe in elves, fairies or dragons in the day-to-day, but in the fantasy author’s world, those elements thrive…and the more fantastical, the better.

The battle between good and evil, right and wrong is the main theme of fantasy and of course magical solutions which replace the laws of nature as we understand them. Events occur, things appear, change just because they do. It’s all at the mercy of the author’s galloping imagination. For children in particular this works beautifully. They have very little hard fact for why things work as they do, making believing a fantasy story just another happening in their lives.

Five Arenas of Fantasy Fiction

Dividing fantasy up into categories is challenging and just asking for a battle to ensue…but I think these general arenas are a good start. Authors of fantasy fiction are quite free, and often do, choose elements of more than one category, after all, that’s what fantasy is..the author’s world.

High Fantasy:

These stories are generally about kings and queens, knights, castles, villagers, etc. Peaceful kingdoms are threatened by some great evil and conquering heroes ride forth. It’s not uncommon to see parodies on this theme, poking fun at it’s usual loftiness. (Adam Sandler’s Bedtime Stories comes to mind). For the most part, these stories come from mythology and European legend, particularly Britain.

Adventure Fantasy

In these stories our heroes are not really facing the “big” battle but rising to the challenge of smaller, more personal forays into fantasy worlds..and quite often having a darned good time doing it. We’ll commonly see a small group of friends and possibly their animal sidekicks working together for the common good. The Wizard of Oz is a fine example of this type of fantasy book.

Fairy Tales

Fairy Tales could never be left out in the world of fantasy writing and are probably some of the oldest examples. Fairy tales in general deal with a personal transformation of some kind. The ugly duckling becomes the swan, the poor maid becomes a princess and the frog becomes the prince. They are ’smaller’ stories, but by no means any lesser of a fantasy with any less number of fans. Older works of Hans Christian Andersen to the more modern tales from Jane Yolen and Patricia McKillip fall into this group.

Magical Realism

This type of fantasy fiction mostly takes place in the modern world, with magic oozing into one particular character’s life. And often without anyone else seeing the magic…just it’s effects. Like Water For Chocolate - A famous example of Magical Realism

Dark Fantasy

Dark Fantasy owns horror, gothic and erotic fantasy fiction from Bram Stoker (Dracula) and Mary Shelley (Frankenstein) to today’s Ann Rice Stephen King, Laurell K Hamilton and Dean Koontz. These stories are brewed in fear, terror and death. Definitely not for the faint of heart, these tales have millions of fans.

Some may ask..”What value is fantasy in our lives?” I believe Tolkien answered that best. To him, fantasy or stories set in ‘faerie’ as he put it had three very important aspects. Recovery, Escape and Consolation. Recovery is about re-examining the world with the wonder we had as children. Escaping is leaving this sometimes very difficult, day to day routine to a vastly more exciting and rule-breaking magical one. Consolation is about the fact that most fantasy and fairytales end in happy endings, leaving us with a ‘feel good’ sense of comfort. Fantasy then, allows us to leave this world, experience one of eternal possibilities and then return, renewed.

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22 October 2010

On Writing - A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

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I was lucky enough to pick up a good second-hand paperback from the local card shop last week. I finished reading the 367 pages by breakfast-time the following morning. The book, an international bestseller had the title On Writing - A Memoir of the Craft (2000) by Stephen King. The paperback was the 2001 New English Library edition published in Great Britain by Hodder and Stoughton.

Stephen King admits that he took more time to write this non-fiction book than most of the novels he is famous for, and have been turned into successful films.

The author begins by describing memorable events from his childhood and his first attempts at writing fiction, which started quite early in his life. Although Stephen King recommends reading voraciously as the best preparation for the novice writer, as a youngster he was hooked more on comics and the cinema than on literary works. “Horror movies, science fiction movies, movies about teenage gangs on the prowl, movies about losers on motorcycles - this was the stuff that turned my dials up to ten.” (p. 40). He talks of having hitch-hiked fourteen miles to the Ritz “during the eight years between 1958 and 1966″ (p. 40) until he was old enough to get his driver’s licence. He was born in 1947.

King describes meeting his future wife Tabitha (later also to become a novelist) and their continuing happy and fruitful relationship after marriage which contributed much to his success as a writer. However, he also describes a period in his life when he showed the symptoms of an addict to both nicotine and alcohol. While it lasted he was unaware how serious the addiction was. Compulsive addiction did not apparently affect his capacity to produce some major works during this period. Again, he attributes his rehabilitation to the cohesiveness of his family.

Stephen King introduces the idea of an appropriate toolbox for the craft of writing, by citing one of his uncles, who was a carpenter that one had to be ready with all available tools for a job, since one would not know in advance which tool(s) would be required. He starts with ‘vocabulary’ as the first essential tool and goes on to describe ‘description’ and ‘dialogue’. He deals with ‘character development’ but emphasises ‘honesty’ as the basic ingredient in all imaginative writing. He gives good advice on why it is not necessary to get too concerned with ‘plot’. He likens story writing to the unearthing of a rare ‘fossil’ from the writer’s imagination. Very often the plot only surfaces when the fossil is uncovered. Concepts like ‘theme’ and ’symbolism’ are dealt with simply, without fanfare.

Stephen King distances himself from the standard advice given to would-be authors that they should restrict themselves to writing ‘what they know’. This is an obvious inference which can easily be drawn from his work throughout his illustrious career as a writer.

While in the midst of writing ‘On Writing’, Stephen King met with a horrific accident. In June 1999, he was hit by a van while walking on a country road in Maine. It is almost a miracle that he survived. Finally, when he was able to sit up, he took up writing this book once again. He treats the accident and its aftermath in the same wry humorous manner that he uses throughout the book. An early example: “… in some company it’s perfectly all right to prick your finger, but very bad form to finger your prick” (p. 130). Later, after the accident, in hospital, Stephen King and a ‘wispy eighty-year-old woman named Alice who was recovering from a stroke” were “learning to walk at the same time”. Stephen takes up the story. “On our third day in the downstairs hall, I told Alice that her slip was showing. ‘Your ass is showing sonnyboy,’ she wheezed, and kept going.” (p. 319).

There is an added bonus to anyone buying this book which is the inclusion of the “winning short story from the ON WRITING competition”.

‘Jumper’ by Garrett Addams exemplifies the kind of writing that Stephen King excels in, where the “surprise ending did, in fact, surprise him. (p. 352)”. This book contains unique insights invaluable to any aspiring writer of fiction.

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20 October 2010

The Cutting Season by Arthur Rosenfeld

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“The Cutting Season” is the first novel I’ve read by Arthur Rosenfeld, and I really enjoyed it. It is called “A Xenon Pearl Martial Arts Thriller” and I’m already looking forward to the second in the series, “Quiet Teacher.” From reading the first, you do know what “Quiet Teacher” refers to.

I don’t like to give many plot details in fiction reviews, so I’ll start by saying I really like the character Xenon Pearl, or Zee for short, that Rosenfeld has created. Pearl is an accomplished surgeon who also happens to have trained in Chinese martial arts since his childhood. Now as an adult, Pearl wrestles with himself as visions of a long dead instructor remind him of past lives and how his training and being a warrior must be used for good, and sometimes for good also includes revenge.

There are elements of good mysteries and good thrillers in this book. It was well paced and a book I didn’t want to put down. Yes, you might figure out a thing or two before the author reveals them, but that didn’t detract from the story or the enjoyment of this action packed read. If you like medical fiction, mysteries, thrillers, and martial arts, you are most likely really going to enjoy this novel. If you like any one of the above, you are still going to like it.

It was the martial art connection that prompted me to read the book, and I was not disappointed with the marital arts portrayed in the story. The passages about martial arts, swords, and steel were my favorite aspects of the story. It was a fun and entertaining book, and that’s what I want out of novels. I’m really looking forward to the next one, and I hope Rosenfeld continues to write about Xenon Pearl.

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19 October 2010

Book Review - A Drug Dealer’s Dream

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Book Review - A Drug Dealer’s Dream by Tremayne “GS” Johnson

Debut author Tremayne Johnson scribes “A Drug Dealer’s Dream”, a cautionary tale about a drug dealer lost in the allure of the drug game. Titled after a Nas verse in the Mobb Deep song ‘An Eye for an Eye”, “A Drug Dealer’s Dream” examines the lifestyle of the drug dealer and the effect on his family.

The protagonist Ahmed Yung is fresh off a bid for a drug trafficking case that ended with the death of one of his friends. While Ahmed was away, his child’s mother, Christal took care of the business, educated herself in real estate and brought a house in the NY suburbs to raise their son Malique. She is waiting at the gate when he is released.

However, the moment Ahmed touches down on the homeland, he’s greeted by his right hand man, Fame. While Ahmed served his time, Fame built a sprawling drug operation, complete with a tight connect and a young goon squad, ready to take on whoever, whenever. Fame hands Ahmed a duffle bag full of cash and in an instant, Ahmed is on his way to what he dreamed: money, cars and hoes.

Christal watches. She wants Ahmed to do the right things and attempts to encourage him to dream different, invest in a business and do the things the “right way”.

Ahmed is torn between his love for the streets and the love of his family. He shuns his Christal and grinds harder. He comes across the number of an old connect and negotiates a better price to profit more than ever. When they finish the transactions, Ahmed is no longer on his way to the dream, he is the drug dealer’s dream. The drug dealers, women and the goons admire Amhed Yung. But can he bare the weight of his actions? Is he willing to lose everything else that is important to him?

“A Drug Dealer’s Dream” has an aggressive narrative plot, memorable characters and at its heart is a moral tale that questions the lifestyle that is adored the streets. Tremayne Johnson’s novel separates itself in that the protagonist does have to deal with his actions.

I recommend this book to street fiction readers and individuals that love fast paced, drama-filled, fiction.

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