Today my guest is a little different from the romance authors I usually interview for my blog. This guy is tough, gritty, controversial and tells it how it is. Please meet Willie Scott.
In his own words:
Bio: "Born Willie Earl Scott in 1980 on the Allied side of the Berlin Wall and raised in the American South, I was the bastard child of a drug-addicted whore and an absent drunk of a father never known. Raised by heartless streets and the penitentiary beast, must say I’m still alive today."
Let's find out a little more:
About You:
• What
is your favorite food?
Pizza
• Where
would be your favorite holiday destination?
Seychelles, a
tiny chain of islands off the coast of southeast Africa, where they have
beautiful sex and non-extradition.
• Satin
or lace underwear?
Satin
• Who
would be your perfect hero/heroine?
I
would say Scarlett O’hara from Gone with the Wind
• Sum
yourself up in three words.
god, Gangsta’, and a Gentleman
• What
is your favorite colour?
Red
• What
are your aspirations?
To
save the world someday
• Do
you have any hobbies (excluding writing)?
Reading
and watching news under the influence.
• What
sort of music do you prefer?
Alternative
Rock and Old school R&B
About Your Writing:
• For
how long have you been a published writer?
I
was signed to Editions du Seuil in 2005 by famed editor Herve Hamon, who
authored some twenty bestsellers (for du Seuil) and literally ran the place
before he was practically forced out the following year. That same year, they hired another new guy
(their third), Davis Jeambar, or Dennis Jeamber, or something like that, and he
was adamantly opposed to releasing a major debut novel originally written for
an English-speaking audience (the French hate our language for some reason) and
by a scandalous 26-year-old street kid from the states.
So in December of ’06, the company
cancelled my contract (fuck you very much Dennis Jeambar!) and returned my book
to me. Surprisingly they let me keep the $4,000 advance though, which to them
was only a little over $2,000 in euros, but still- Merry Christmas!
That year I begin writing work for other
more accomplished writers and selling under pen names. I do okay.
The novels I want
you guys to cop and read is “Heaven and Hell on Earth” and “Candles Under the Crescent" me as Willie Earl Scott and available at the Kindle Bookstore. “Candles Under the Crescent” is a taboo erotic thriller that’s been harshly
edited
to please Amazon but is still too taboo for some.
“Heaven and Hell on Earth” is one of those forbidden philosensational epic
tomes that will probably get me killed, shot or
stabbed to death by a faceless villain offended by something or another I
wrote.
• How
many books have you written?
12
• What
kind of books do you like to read/who is your favorite author?
The classic and the greats
I have more than
one favorite author: Earl Thompson, Sidney Sheldon, Donald Goines, and Jean
Genet
• Sum
up your writing in three words.
Taboo,
controversial, and sensational
• If
you didn’t write erotic fiction, what other genre do you think you would
write?
Dark
fantasy/Science Fiction
• What
length do you prefer to write your novels?
Full length
80,000 – 150,000
About Your Books
Heaven and Hell on Earth, an intellectually
gritty tome in the vein of Dan Brown and Donald Goines, is a dark
genre-blending thriller of approximately 120,000 words that mixes street, taboo
erotica and crime fiction with black history, urban theology and sociopolitics.
A pair coming of age characters, Gabriel and Lucifer are twin phenoms separated
at birth and raised in totally different circumstances. Good one. Evil the
other.
Gabriel Goodwyn is brought up a saintly child of sorts, having been not just abandoned
on the doorstep of a historic Philadelphia church but found and begotten an
only son by a prominent northeastern couple with direct lineage to Old Society
Europe. Brilliant to the point of being manifested prophecy, Gabe’s mission is
one to do with poverty and the poor, from Detroit to Dakar to Darfur. But he’s
an unlikely savior, plenty young and human, challenging the ancient
conspiracies of his own affiliation as well as the unsolved mysteries of the
day, threatened by personal scandal – and public assassination.
Lucifer, the spiteful survivor of a house fire that sparked the redhead’s
legend in the first place, is the cold clever lieutenant of a notorious
underworld crime posse. In a ghetto sphere stretching from Miami to New Orleans
and brimming with some of the most colorful characters as well as those not
uncommon in urban lit – Jamaican druglords, fiends, bangers, block-huggers,
immigrant terribles, etc. – the diabolic street chieftain otherwise known as
Lucy is relentlessly pursued by a pair of hard-boiled Birmingham detectives,
one a seasoned yet washed-up drinker with demons of his own, the other a
street-wise young local made good, both with motives for this one no less
personal than they are emotional.
Heaven and Hell on Earth, an intellectually gritty tome in the vein of Dan Brown and Donald Goines, is a dark genre-blending thriller of approximately 120,000 words that mixes street, taboo erotica and crime fiction with black history, urban theology and sociopolitics.
A pair coming of age characters, Gabriel and Lucifer are twin phenoms separated at birth and raised in totally different circumstances. Good one. Evil the other.
Gabriel Goodwyn is brought up a saintly child of sorts, having been not just abandoned on the doorstep of a historic Philadelphia church but found and begotten an only son by a prominent northeastern couple with direct lineage to Old Society Europe. Brilliant to the point of being manifested prophecy, Gabe’s mission is one to do with poverty and the poor, from Detroit to Dakar to Darfur. But he’s an unlikely savior, plenty young and human, challenging the ancient conspiracies of his own affiliation as well as the unsolved mysteries of the day, threatened by personal scandal – and public assassination.
Lucifer, the spiteful survivor of a house fire that sparked the redhead’s legend in the first place, is the cold clever lieutenant of a notorious underworld crime posse. In a ghetto sphere stretching from Miami to New Orleans and brimming with some of the most colorful characters as well as those not uncommon in urban lit – Jamaican druglords, fiends, bangers, block-huggers, immigrant terribles, etc. – the diabolic street chieftain otherwise known as Lucy is relentlessly pursued by a pair of hard-boiled Birmingham detectives, one a seasoned yet washed-up drinker with demons of his own, the other a street-wise young local made good, both with motives for this one no less personal than they are emotional.
The first in a landmark trilogy, it is the shockingly dark and gripping tale of
Oxford grad and royal heir Kamram Khan, who after the assassination of this
insurrectionary father, returns home to taboo romance, traitorous relatives and
all out tyranny by the Republic.
A row in deathly sexy blockbusters written by a sexy former blockhugger now on death row, Candles Under the Crescent is an otherwise lusty flame of literary art that burns raw, earthy, and joyously obscene in painting the sensuous and seamy side of a motley social milieu.
A row in deathly sexy blockbusters written by a sexy former blockhugger now on death row, Candles Under the Crescent is an otherwise lusty flame of literary art that burns raw, earthy, and joyously obscene in painting the sensuous and seamy side of a motley social milieu.
Thank you, Willie, for being my guest today.
Please join me on Monday to find out what's been going on in Bella's World, and then on Wednesday Jennifer Denys will be talking about Bondage for my Writng; The Alphabet series. Until then have a great weekend and enjoy whatever you are reading and/or writing.
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