Readers In Motion Bookclub is a place where the readers’ passion is appreciated. RIM is a place where known authors as well as aspiring authors can come and get honest feedback by people that respect their work. We are a family and we want every member to feel welcome and important.
My grandmother always told me “You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself”. The people in Rodney’s neighborhood called him “Savage” because of his poor appearance, but unknowingly those same people turned him into the Fierce, Violent and Uncontrollable force or simply put the Young Savage he would become.
Young Savage is a gripping tale of a young man’s survival in a world where only the strong survive. With no real male guidance and a mother chasing her next fix while her revolving door of men came and went, Rodney was left to fend for himself. His only real companion was his dog Bam, another stray left alone in the world. His days are filled with hopeless dreams and hungry nights. ...
Rodney while playing in the park notices the action of the local hustler and ends up befriending the leader, Pookie, sending Rodney on journey he will never forget. I loved Rodney’s character because despite everything he was still loyal to his mother. There were a few grammatical and editorial errors that did take away from the story slightly, but overall I give this 4 stars. I would recommend this to anyone looking for a fast paced and highly addictive read.
Reviewed by: Kecia
Rating: 4 stars ****
For: Readers In Motion Book Club
We are kicking off an exciting membership drive contest today that we wanted to let you know about. The new member winner and the most referred winner will both receive three autographed books from various authors along a $10.00 gift card to Amazon.com.
Readers In Motion Bookclub is a place where the readers’ passion is appreciated. RIM is a place where known authors as well as aspiring authors can come and get honest feedback by people that respect their work. We are a family and we want every member to feel welcome and important. We have monthly chats on featured books which we collectively chose. We try to have authors attend the chats if possible. Our past guests is essence bestselling author, Wahida Clark, author of the highly acclaimed book, Thug Lovin’, which is the fourth addition to her Thug series and Mike Sanders, author of the highly acclaimed book, Thirsty. At the end of the day I want RIM to be known as the place where readers, authors, and poets can come and share their excitement for literature.
TO ENTER THE DRAWING, get your friends, family, or colleagues to join the Readers In Motion Bookclub between now and March 31. They can sign up by sending an inbox message to readersinmotion@yahoo.com with the subject line being membership contest. In the email make sure that you include your Facebook address and also the name of the person that refer you. For every person that joins Readers In Motion (refer by you) will give you an entry in the drawing. For every 5 members you will get an extra entry along with pervious stated one. Every new member that joins by March will be entered to win a prize. There is no limit to how many times you can be entered. More who join because of you the more chances you get
I am a Father of "several" wonderful kids. I have been writing for most of my life because my parents got me started reading and writing at a very young and impressionable age... and currently, I am in remission from an acute form of Leukemia which I must honestly say I’m still trying to get used to.
What inspired you to write your
first book?
Well first you have to understand, My first book was written and completed when I was about 16 years old. I had found my love of sci-fi/fantasy and began reading everything I could from mythology to middle ages stories and just loved the idea of swords and sorcery and dragons...etc. So after reading about Conan the Barbarian and similar stories and playing Dungeons and Dragons I began to write along that genre. Sadly that book was recently lost when my mom's house flooded and a lot of my papers and some of my books were destroyed. Since those days I’ve allowed myself to explore different means of literary expression just because I do love to write and I try to write daily.
How much of the book is realistic?
-Of My two new books, Liquid Eroticism & Pitch Darke: the Poetic Chronicles of Damien Darke, both of which have been recently published; Pitch Darke is more like My Darker side as it conveys several years of my life over the course of relationships from friendships to marriage and of course several other moments from pains to moments of levity through my use of poetic prose. A lot of these poems were written years ago and saved over the course of time in the hopes of one day putting together this book and I have to say thank you to my publishing company for believing in my work with this book as well as Liquid Eroticism.
What books have most influenced
your life most?
To be truthful, the books that influenced my writing life the most I read when I was younger and pushed me into my first genre of writing which was sci-fi and fantasy. I am a huge Robert Howard fan and I do believe I have read just about every Conan the Barbarian book he wrote. I have a collection of his Conan books in my library including some that were copy written back in the late 60s. The overall influence was that those books allowed me to use and then expand my imagination and opened my mind to my own thoughts were my writing was concerned. It was as if a floodgate had been opened and once I began to write it was impossible to stop and to this day I’m still that way. I love to write and I love that when I do get into that zone it’s like watching a movie in my head and then putting it all into words. Mr. Howard opened that zone for me and if he was still alive he would definitely be one of those persons Id love to meet.
What are your current projects?
-Currently, I am quite busy with a couple of different projects, but my most important one is my very first Urban (I do hope this is politically correct) Lit book that I have named Tainted: the Book of Revelations. This is the story of a young bride who is pretty much "innocent" in the ways of the streets and she finds herself caught up in her new husband's true business nature after he decides he is going to groom her to take over operations when he realizes he has been poisoned by is business partners. Now she has to grow up and find her ruthless side in order to take over the business, and in the end a few things are going to be revealed to those she must now deal with in order to survive. If all goes well with this book it will be the first of 3 in a series. I am hoping to have the last of the book written by the end of March with editing and proofing done for an April or May release.
Name one entity that you feel supported you outside of family members.
Her very first words to me when we finally introduced ourselves to one another was, "I've been watching you and your work for quite a while," and she had been. I went back into my fan page on Facebook and I found where she had initially liked it almost 6 to 8 months prior to us talking for the first time. She could tell me about some of the poems and short story works I had on the page. After talking for a little bit, which we did at a Starbucks in Jacksonville, FL, she told me that she would love to help me do something she could tell I wanted and that was get my work published. That's exactly what she did, Dawn Rivers has definitely been one of the most influential people I know where my writing, graphics, and my life overall is concerned. She has become a great friend and an important part of my life and I would never want to replace her. Thank you Ms. Rivers for everything.
Do you have anything specific that you want to say to your readers?
What I would tell readers would depend on 2 things... 1 if you are a writer and you’re reading this please do me one big favor... write...write... and write some more... even if you feel that you don’t have anything to write or what you’re writing will make no sense still write. the more you write the more you’ll find you have something to say. and 2. If you are a reader please let those whose material you’re reading know what you think of what you read, good or bad, most of us really do want to know that way we can improve on what we have to offer.
For Me, I do not write because I have to, I write because I love to... I write because it is a part of who I am. Many call themselves Authors ... I call myself a Storywriter, a Minstrel, I am a Scribe of words...I write because to do otherwise would mean I’m not being true to myself.
Gerald Johnson's steamy hot novel Liqiud Eroticism can be found on Amazon and Barnes and Noble in both paperback and ebook version.
This month we are giving away a free autographed copy of his novel Liqiud Eroticism. The winner of the novel will be chosen at random at the end of the month. Sure make sure you leave a comment to be enter.
Young Savage by Rasheed Carter
