JE Thompson's Blog – April 2013 Archive (6)

  Sitting in front of my computer slapping my head from side to side...

     Finding an agent is so difficult that at times you want to slap your head from side to side and commit physical harm to your body.

      Maybe, if I slap hard enough my brain will work in overdrive to figure out a way to make agents interested in my fourth novel: Purple…

     How to use subplots to your advantage in crafting a novel?

     Have you ever driven down one of those winding backwood roads in a rural area and couldn't figure out how to get back to the main highway? Well, that is the feeling a reader gets when they read your novel and get lost in a tangling subplot.

     Your goal as an author is to create a little…

I'm animated! I’m excited! I’m energized!

I walked into the Barnes & Nobles book store in the “The Shoppes at Webb Gin” shopping mall in Snellville, Georgia on Saturday.

I was walking down the Fiction & Literature aisle.  I was browsing and looking at the fiction books. The books were listed under the authors’ last names in alpha order. I…

    It is the time to start your spring and summer reading with an award winning author Julius Thompson novel: A Brownstone in Brooklyn and Philly Style and Philly Profile!

      Francis Grieff wrote after reading a Julius Thompson novel: “I like your crisp style, moving fast from one scene to another.”

A Brownstone in…

Please check out my new Philly Style and Philly Profile book cover and the new paperback: https://www.createspace.com/4236894

Philly Style and Philly Profile short synopsis: Philadelphia streets were never silent. Gangs wars on corners, screeching cars on avenues, and squealing steel trolley tires on…

I was asked to choose a quote from, A Brownstone in Brooklyn, to reflect on the unpredictable nature of life. How things are never the same and human beings have to adjust to life’s changing events. A Brownstone in Brooklyn is about growing up in the turbulent sixties, one of the most event filled decades in Black-American history.

A Brownstone in Brooklyn chronicles the…