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Doug Brooks Mystery-suspense novelist, playwright, poet and innovator of hiphopetry

About Me

Doug Brooks
Doug Brooks
Huntington, WV
Member since: May, 2009
Last login: 11/22/2009
Last update : 11/18/2009
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photo credit: Doug M. Brooks

Birthday02/13/1975
HometownHuntington, WV
NicknameWater-Blakmon
EthnicityAfrican American
NationalityUnited States

About Me

  • Water Blakmon (D. M. B.) is a  featured artist in the Vibes Of Inner City Echoes movement.  We talk about current events, lifestyle, war, politics, racial discrimination using an artistic yet informative approach to reporting.  Doug M. Brooks the president of Chapter’s Advertising is the Senior editor and creator of  V.O.I.C.E magazine where we use the power of storytelling to produce and promote positive solutions and truth to real problems facing the world.

     I'm a writer of my times... I'm the soul food seasoning!

Interests & Hobbies

  • Reading, writing, boxing, working-out/running, movies, traveling and bike riding.

Favorite Books

  • The Holy Bible, Easy Rawlins Mysteries (Cinnamon Kiss, Little Scarlett), Repositioning Yourself, Joy, Cane, Impromptu

Favorite Authors

  • Walter Mosley, Eric Jerome Dickey, Cornel West, TD Jakes, Jean Toomer

EDUCATION

Undergraduate College/UniversityMarshall University, class of 2003
Undergraduate Area of StudyEnglish Writing
High SchoolHuntington High School, class of 1994

UPCOMING WORK

  • Split Ends (Mystery-thriller, Novel)-- A tale of 5 friends from different religions who find two common bonds survival and womanhood.

INFLUENCES

  • Tahar Djaout, Walter Mosley, Spike Lee, Maya Angelo, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Zora Neal Hurston, Toni Morrison

CAUSES I SUPPORT

  • Freedom Writer's Foundation, NAACP, Freedom of religion

UNIVERSITY AFFILIATION

  • Marshall University

AGENTS

  • Adonia Pearl

HOW TO CONTACT MY AGENT

  • hay.pearl@gmail.com

PUBLISHERS

  • Xlibris, VOICE publishing

HOW TO CONTACT MY PUBLISHER

  • http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.aspx?bookid=25721