Sep 24

WHY I WROTE: Dutch Chocolate6: Shutdown or Shutout; The Pirellis’ story

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In the sixth installment of the Dutch Chocolate Series, I wondered how Dutch would react to two more of her own crew members in serious trouble. This time the two super-size ex-cops also known as the Pirelli brothers whom she hired straight out of prison, are being targeted by an ultra-right hate group. The hate group was formed in prison and includes former members of law enforcement. 12 years ago, at the trial of the same hate group, murderous threats and vows to end the Pirelli brothers’ lives were made. Dutch receives a late-night call that could spell the end of the Pirellis. Dutch is on her way back to the farm upstate when she receives the Pirellis’ call for help. There no way she can make it back to the city in time to save them. She is out of options. What does she do? What do the Pirellis do? Will the Pirelli brothers survive the trap the hate group sets for them? Read the book to get the answers. I had so much fun writing the series. I hope you’ll enjoy reading the sixth novel of the Dutch Chocolate Series, Dutch Chocolate6: Shutdown or Shutout, the Pirellis’ story […]
Sep 17

WHY PEOPLE LIE

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For most of my life, I’ve been curious about something that seems to be a human phenomenon. Little kids do it. Teenagers do it. And adults do it. Even Disney characters (think Pinocchio) do it. It’s called lying. Lately I find myself wondering why people do it. Most people make such a mess of it. They tell whoppers that can so easily be uncovered. In this age of cellphone videos, body cams, social media, and information breaches, who doesn’t know your business? To me, lying seems worthless or at least more work than it’s worth. Yet people still do it. And I keeping asking myself, why do people lie? Experts Victoria Talwar and Kang Lee say that there are three types of lies. The first one is called a primary lie. This type of lie is told to hide what the teller did but fails to consider the mental state of the listener. Children as young as two and as old as four tell these kinds of lies. By the time children are four, they learn to tell secondary lies. These lies are more plausible. The teller has learned through trial and error to shape the lie to the listener’s […]
Sep 10

WHY I DON’T CELEBRATE 9-11

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I’ve had this ongoing argument with myself and others throughout the years, about celebrating 9-11. I never wanted to celebrate 9-11. By celebrate, I mean treat it like a special day, a day of remembrance. I’m or I was a city worker who worked four blocks away and two blocks over from the World Trade Center’s twin towers. I went to work on that clear sunny morning. I arrived at my office a little before 8 in the morning. It was the date for the Democratic runoff for mayor, Mark Greene VS Freddie Ferrer. Who knew the beautiful day would turn ugly so fast? A friend called me. We talked as we usually did until she told me to find a television and turn it on or listen 1010 WINS. The urgency in her voice made me do it. It was the second worst decision among many that I made that day. The first one was watching the twins collapse, one after the other, a sight I haven’t been able to forget in 15 years. They looked like dominos except they fell downward and not over. It was almost as if some giant hand was sawing away the legs underneath […]
Sep 01

Dutch Chocolate6: Shutdown or Shutout? The Pirellis’ story

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In the sixth novel of the Dutch Chocolate action series, the Pirelli brothers, Tony and Angelo, don’t know it, but they are about to be targeted for death. Former law enforcement officials, now in a gang, that the brothers testified against, have been released. The gang has vowed to kill the Pirellis. Meanwhile, love is in the air as each Pirelli brother meets the woman of his dreams, and each relationship is as tumultuous as their lives are about to become. Will the brothers be able to outrun and outgun the gang members? Or will they end up in trouble again, with their hopes and dreams destroyed? Find out in Dutch Chocolate6: Shutdown or Shutout? The Pirellis’ story. Available for pre-order 8/19/23. The release date is 9/02/23. ASIN:ASIN: B0CFW5WX5N (Kindle Version $3.99) ASIN: B0CFX2P2T8 (Print Version $12.99) ISBN-13: 979-8857722053 (Print Version $12.99) Here are the links for: Dutch Chocolate6: Shutdown or Shutout? The Pirellis’ story. Kindle USA: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CFW5WX5N Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0CFW5WX5N Kindle Print: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CFX2P2T8 Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1438164 Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/lz8XwoGEKGc Connect with BL Wilson at these links: My blog: https://wilsonbluez.com/ Linked-in: https://linkd.in/1ui0iRu Amazon author page: https://amzn.to/1y7Ncar Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10787497.B_L_Wilson Twitter: https://twitter.com/wilsonbluez Smashwords Interview: https://www.smashwords.com/interview/wilsonbluez Smashwords author Page: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/wilsonbluez IAN author web page: […]
Aug 27

WHY I WROTE: GREEN EYES: Molly & Juliane, a story of war, love and redemption

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I have always loved the movies. Since I was a child, my favorite movie types were. In order of favorites, here’s my list: Cowboy Movies War Movies Mystery Movies I loved watching any and every kind of Cowboy Movies. Westerns, they were called back then. I still believed the good guys wore white hats and the bad guys were black hats. That’s how they were easily recognized. The bleak dusty desert backgrounds of the wild west were wonderful to see as well. How the beiges, shades browns and cactus greens contrasted with the bright orange skies at just before sundown. My next favorite type were movies about war. Where the was war never matter to me. I loved the buddy, buddy stuff where tragedies of war brought soldiers together. I admired how the soldiers formed long lasting relationships. In the movies, those deep bonds always lasted longer than the war did. The war buddies stayed dear friends until they passed on. Their families knew each and always liked each other as well. As for mystery movies, I always tried to figure out before the hero did, who-dun-it. I sat there in the movie theater matching wits with him or her. […]
Aug 20

PLAYGROUND GAMES

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As a kid, if anybody asked me what my favorite elementary school class was, I’d always answer how much I loved recess. My mother would interrupt the conversation to correct me. She’d say recess wasn’t a class, but I remained steadfast. I’d mumble under my breath, “If recess isn’t a class, it oughta be.” The reason I loved recess in the wintertime so much was that I had the freedom to release the tomboy I felt screaming to be outside. That part of me wasn’t allowed be out any other time. I should explain. I came from a family and a time when young girls were expected to wear dresses to school, at home, at church, and even at play. Girls wore dresses everywhere. Of course, since girls dressed like miniature ladies, they were supposed to act like them as well. That meant no ball playing, including foot races, baseball, football, or basketball. In my elementary school, nobody knew what soccer was, so I didn’t play that game either. Girls could play dodgeball, red rover, jump rope, tag, hide ‘n’ seek, and jacks, but no marbles, a game in which I excelled, and other games that didn’t involve the running […]
Aug 13

Letter to my granddaughter

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The photograph on the left was taken on the way to my sister’s Going Home Service in Maryland in December of 2017. That’s my 100-year old mother reading a menu at a seafood restaurant. She has a cellphone in the pocket of the jacket she’s wearing. She never leaves home without it and the emergency medical alert chain around her neck. She uses her cellphone to call folks like me; her two other children; six grandchildren; her AKA sorority sisters; friends and her neighbors. The photograph on the right was also taken in December of 2016. That’s my 3.5-year old granddaughter in reindeer clown makeup. We’d just returned from the main branch of the NY public library at Fifth Avenue. We had gone to NYPL’s Christmas Open House for children. There she is relaxing with her mother’s cellphone in a chair made just her. (That’s what I told her as her mother; and I put the two chairs together). As she sometimes does, my granddaughter is watching one of her favorite movies. She loves Sophia, Frozen, Pound Puppies and so many more kiddie movies I can’t remember. At nearly four, she can scroll down screens; she can enlarge or reduce […]
Aug 01

Green Eyes: Molly & Juliane, a story of war love and redemption

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GREEN EYES: Molly & Juliane, a story of war, love and redemption. Somewhere in the conflicted Middle East, a badly wounded female transportation driver named Juliane Thomasina (JT) Epps nearly loses a foot and ankle in a rebel attack. As an army corporal, she’s been driving supplies from the local airport to the US Army encampments in the desert and the mountains for two tours of duty. After the attack, she manages to drag her passengers to safety in a nearby cave-like structure and steps on a landmine. Molly Running Deer, an ER Army field nurse, saves JT’s life. JT has lost so much blood, her heart stops. Molly stops the bleeding using a temporary fix until the doctors can operate. Molly develops a connection with JT and goes with her to Germany for additional surgeries to save her calf, ankle and foot. Flash forward many years later, and the two women, their lives now immeasurably different, meet up again by chance in New York City. Will their previous connection bind them together again, or has their mutual attraction faded with the passing time? Find out in Green Eyes: Molly & Juliane, a story of war, love and redemption. Green […]
Jul 23

WHY I WROTE: GREEN EYES: Molly & Juliane, a story of war, love and redemption

by B.L. in Other 0 comments
I have always loved the movies. Since I was a child, my favorite movie types were. In order of favorites, here’s my list: Cowboy Movies War Movies Mystery Movies I loved watching any and every kind of Cowboy Movies. Westerns, they were called back then. I still believed the good guys wore white hats and the bad guys were black hats. That’s how they were easily recognized. The bleak dusty desert backgrounds of the wild west were wonderful to see as well. How the beiges, shades browns and cactus greens contrasted with the bright orange skies at just before sundown. My next favorite type were movies about war. Where the was war never matter to me. I loved the buddy, buddy stuff where tragedies of war brought soldiers together. I admired how the soldiers formed long lasting relationships. In the movies, those deep bonds always lasted longer than the war did. The war buddies stayed dear friends until they passed on. Their families knew each and always liked each other as well. As for mystery movies, I always tried to figure out before the hero did, who-dun-it. I sat there in the movie theater matching wits with him or her. […]
Jul 16

SUCCESS MEANS LEARNING TO FAIL

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The picture above is a view of the Riverside Drive’s Park between West 144th Street and West 142nd Street. The strip park run along Riverside Drive and follows the Hudson River. Parts of the drive mingle with the West Side Highway and so the park overlooks the highway or 12th Avenue. Other parts of the park disappear and reappear further uptown and end somewhere in Inwood. The park still has uniquely antique elements. Note the water fountain, the cobblestone made of bricks, and the old-fashioned street lamps that work. What’s most interesting to me is the way one main road separates into two paths. It reminds me of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken. For the past six months, my niece and I have grown particularly close. One reason is that my sister, who was also her mother, died six months ago. I’ve always considered my niece like a daughter and so this was a natural progression of things. Another reason we’ve grown close, I’ve been giving her some advice about jobs. Lately, my suggestions have been geared towards her new promotion. A little more than a year ago, she took a job as an entry level employee with a […]
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