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- Julius Thompson grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York and attended Bushwick High School. The sixties in Brooklyn was an era that had a personality, a feel, and a life-force that changed a generation. Mr. Thompson felt this energy and experienced these fires of social change.
After high school, Mr. Thompson spent the next four years riding the "A" train to Harlem, in upper Manhattan, to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree from the City College of New York. At CCNY, which was located just a few blocks from the famous Apollo Theater, Wednesday afternoons were hard on the undergraduates. The matinee performances of the major R&B groups of the times was more tempting than attending a boring college lecture. Most of the time Mr. Thompson succumbed to the temptation, but still earned a college degree from one of the best universities in the country.
At CCNY, literature instructors like Prof. Thomas Tashiro, fueled the fire in him to become a writer!
Mr. Thompson’s journey to compose a trilogy began in 1995. The fourteen year fictional journey of character Andy Michael Pilgrim from Brooklyn, to Philadelphia and finally Atlanta is now complete. In this pilgrimage, readers experience places that are filled with hopes, dreams, challenges and fears that make us human.
The novels that make up the trilogy are A Brownstone in Brooklyn which was published in 2001, Philly Style and Philly Profile in 2007 and Ghost of Atlanta in January 2011. Mr. Thompson won the 2011 Readers Favorite National Gold Medal Award in General Fiction for Ghost of Atlanta. Mr. Thompson also received the Georgia Author of the Year nomination for Philly Style and Philly Profile, from the Georgia Writers Association, in 2007, and Ghost of Atlanta in 2011.
Mr. Thompson’s fourth novel, Purple Phantoms, which is a story about the haunting of a mythical high school basketball team, will be published by Passionate Writer Publising in 2012. Mr. Thompson is currently a Creative Writing/Publishing Instructor at Atlanta’s Evening at Emory’s Writers Studio.
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It finally happened...Barnes & Nobels Customer checking out Julius Thompson's Novels!
I walked into the Barnes & Nobles book store in the “The Shoppes at Webb Gin” shopping mall in Snellville, Georgia on Saturday and saw customer Nyadi Abasto checking out my two novels A Brownstone in Brooklyn and the National Award winning Ghost of Atlanta.
I’ve been waiting fifteen…
Posted on May 4, 2013 at 4:57pm
Novel Writing...The Setting!
Where am I?
This is a question you DON’T want your readers to dwell on as they turn the pages of your novel.
Picking the setting of a novel is obviously a critical step.
You must craft a vivid and realistic setting to act as a canvass for your characters to perform. This…
ContinuePosted on May 1, 2013 at 10:34pm
Is Finding a Literary Agent an Impossible Dream?
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…
ContinuePosted on April 28, 2013 at 11:30pm
Thompson On..Subplots in novels!
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…
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Hi, Julius!
Welcome to Book Blogs! I'm Kate, a young adult author published by Crescent Moon Press, Entangled, and Omnific. When you have the time, please come and visit me at Reads, Reviews, Recommends by clicking on my blog button below to learn more about my writing:
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Hi, and welcome to Book Blogs! I'm new here, too, but I love the place already. If there's anything you want to know, feel free to ask me! (:
Anyway, I have two blogs: {This Girl Reads} and [Cover to Cover], and I'd love it if you'd check them out. I'd love to follow your blog, so leave my a link to it!
Hope you're having a great day. (:
AuthorRoberta Goodman said…
Welcome to Book Blogs, Julius :) This site can be a bit overwhelming at first, so if you have any questions please feel free to ask me. I’ve been a member since October and have found the resources on here to be excellent. When you get a chance, please stop by my blog http://rogoodman.com/. If you decide to follow me, please let me know and I will return the favor :)
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Hi Julius and welcome! Hope you enjoy Book Blogs as much as I do. If there’s anything I can do for you, please let me know. Also, when you have the time, please check out my blog at irregulartherapy.blogspot.com and website at http://www.irregulartherapy.com.
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