Jul 11

THE GOD THING

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I’ve been thinking a lot about God lately. I’m not sure exactly why, but I’ve been doing it. For example, two weeks ago, I went out to move my car from one side of the street to the other side. In New York City, we have something called Alternate Side of the Street Parking. Particularly in Manhattan, good legal parking spots are worth a car’s weight in gold. Even bad illegal spots are worth something until the traffic agents or the police discover them. Depending on the side of the street, the day of the week, and time of day, a car has to be moved or the owner risks a ticket, a tow, or both. I saw two older Black women in long-sleeved dresses that almost touched their ankles crossing the street as I double-parked. I immediately thought of old-school church sisters. The only thing the two sisters were missing were their Sunday-go-to-meeting church hats. They did carry copies of their religious booklets, face-out against their chests as if the papers could shield them against the sinning world they were entering. I watched the two women for a long while. They both took bench seats in the park across […]
Jun 21

Why I wrote: I Wanna Get Next To You

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In my series Forever Woman, I introduced a character Miss Nonni in Ferrelli’s Restaurant which was Volume 5. She was the elegant older woman who dispensed wisdom and sage advice to the rest of the women who inhabited the series. She was also the grandmother who raised Maria Ferrelli the current owner of the restaurant. While the reader learned she spoke a blend of Italian. She was born and raised in Sicily. She understood English but spoke a rudimentary form of it, leaving out adverbs and adjectives and sometimes even verbs. In the beginning, when I first added Miss Nonni, she seemed to float into a room make her pronouncements and predictions then leave almost like a spirit ghost. She was very elegant with her stark white curly hair almost arranged like a halo. She had an arrow straight posture that hopefully reminding readers of an ivory queen. When she extended a hand to touch people’s hearts, she seemed to read their deeply buried emotions. Later on, in future books, Miss Nonni liked to do interesting things. She drove a family bread truck in Sicily. She loved to garden. Her family grew its own herbs and vegetables in the old […]
Jun 14

RIB BONES & MY FATHER

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That’s a photo of my father in 1953 when we lived on Douglas Street which no longer exist as I knew it back then. My mother likes to tell two stories about me. One shows or purports to show how creative with the truth I was at a young age. As for the second of my mother’s tales, I’ll save that one for another time. I think I was five at the time. Apparently, we—meaning my parents, my sister who was seven, my brother who was three and I were enjoying one of my favorite dinner meals. We were seated around the dinner table in the dining room of our old house on Douglas Street. I should say right now, I don’t remember experiencing this tale myself, but I’ve heard the story so often, I could tell it in my sleep. Knowing my mother, the home economics teacher, believed in balanced meals, I’m sure we had string beans, a green salad, a starch—baked potatoes or something like it, meat or fish, milk for us kids and coffee for her and my father. My parents believed social graces at the dinner table. That usually meant my father would ask my mother […]
Jun 07

OUT AT 47

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I was forty-seven years old before I finally admitted to me that I was gay and then I admitted it to my family. Question: Isn’t 47 a little old to discover one’s orientation? Shouldn’t a person know before they reach 30 who or what they like? At 47, a person has lived over half her life in the shadows and maybe with the wrong gender as well. How’s a major life change possible at that age? Permit me to explain my situation. I’m a Baby Boomer. When I grew up, young women were just beginning to flex their muscles. They were thinking about working in non-traditional jobs and considered living non-traditional lives. Most of the women I knew when I was a kid wore traditional clothes to represent their by-the-book lives. Frilly blouses, below-the-knee donut skirts, tailored shirtwaist dresses, and A-line dresses were garb of that day. I rarely saw pants or slacks on my mother’s friends and only boys wore jeans. My mother and her friends allowed daughters like me to wear dressy dresses several inches below the knee with heels at sixteen. On very special occasions, we daughters wore lipstick, a little blush for our cheeks, eye shadow, […]
Jun 01

I Wanna Get Next To You; the loving story Miss Nonni & Courtney

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I Wanna Get Next To You; the loving story Miss Nonni & Courtney In the eleventh novel of the Forever Woman series, I Wanna Get Next To You: the loving story of Miss Nonni & Courtney, Miss Nonni meets Courtney aka Corky while babysitting Percy and MB’s new baby. Their attraction to each other is undeniable, but not everyone approves of this budding romance, least of all Maria, Miss Nonni’s granddaughter. Corky is hesitant to become involved with Miss Nonni, not because of their age difference, but because Maria is so against her grandmother becoming involved with an obvious playgirl. This infuriates Miss Nonni, who has to point out that she is a grown woman! Things come to a head between Maria and Corky, and, sadly, Miss Nonni is forced to take sides. Will Miss Nonni have to choose between family and love and marriage, or can Corky smooth things over? Read I Wanna Get Next To You and find out Available on Kindle and Smashwords for preorder on 5/16/21. Release date is 6/1/21 ASIN: B095283W6H (Kindle Version $2.99) ASIN : B0952QL5FN (Print Version $11.99) Here are the links for: I Wanna Get Next To You, the loving story of […]
May 23

DUTCH CHOCOLATE3; Blood Lust

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In the third action novel of the Dutch Chocolate series, it’s been four years since VP Judith Kerson’s death and Yolanda Riggins, aka Dutch Chocolate, still has a hole in her heart. After an incident with a bear, Dutch goes upstate to check on her cousin and her family. While deciding how to handle the possibility the bear’s mate will go on a rampage, Dutch meets the game warden, a somewhat strange woman, examining the dead male bear. The bear’s mate attacks Dutch and the game warden, but luckily, Dutch’s co-workers kill the female bear in mid-attack. The game warden, Linda Whitehawk, introduces Dutch to the world of poaching, trading and killing illegal exotic game for money that is happening in her own back yard. Linda is a staunch conservationist and finds herself tempering Dutch’s impulsive instinct to hunt the bears and poachers alike to protect her family, and the two bump heads. However, Dutch’s family and friends see love in the air between the pair of opposites. Will Dutch and Linda have a meeting of the minds or will their differences in ideology drive them apart? Find out in Dutch Chocolate3: Blood Lust. Available for pre-order 2/10/21. The release […]
May 16

DUTCH CHOCOLATE 2: JUDGE YE NOT

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In Dutch Chocolate 2: Judge Ye Not, a series of complications plague Judge Roy MacKay’s courtroom. He’s the sitting judge on an important criminal case against one of the world’s major drug kingpins, nicknamed El Jefe.  The judge and his courtroom staff have suffered through several bomb threats, armed guards and personal bodyguards, a courtroom filled with cameras, reporter wannabees, official reporters, and so many court watchers, daily seating lotteries are conducted before court begins. The jury finds El Jefe guilty on all counts. Now the judge must sentence the drug kingpin in eighteen days. Unfortunately, his daughter has been kidnapped to make sure he releases El Jefe. Judge MacKay hires Dutch to rescue his daughter. Now Dutch is racing against the clock. She has less than eighteen days to find the judge’s daughter and install her in a safe house before El Jefe’s minions deliver her to a fate worse than death. Can Dutch rescue the young hostage and keep everyone she holds dear safe? Dutch Chocolate 2: Judge Ye Not:  Available for pre-order 11/23/20. The release date is 12/02/20.   ASIN: B08P2GMX6Q (Kindle Version $2.99) ASIN: B08NZQCCM8 (Print Version $12.99) Here are the links for: Dutch Chocolate 2: […]
May 09

DUTCH CHOCOLATE1, The Vice President is missing

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A chance meeting in a public school bathroom rekindles old feelings in PI Yolanda “Dutch” Riggins for her former college friend Judith Kerson. Forbidden to Dutch twenty years ago, as Vice President of the United States, Judith is now completely taboo. Regardless, the two make a tentative dinner date, but fate intervenes and Judith goes missing. With one Secret Service person killed and another in critical condition, witnesses are scarce and Dutch and her crew take up the reins of the investigation. Why would anyone abduct the Vice President? Is it for money, fame, or something more sinister? Whatever the reason, it is up to Dutch to find her old friend in the first novel of the action-packed, suspenseful Dutch Chocolate Series: Dutch Chocolate1: The Vice President is Missing. Available now on Amazon and Smashwords! ASIN: B083Z5XWMB (Kindle Version $2.99) ISBN-13: 9781661886233 (Print Version $10.99) ISBN-10: 166188623X (Print Version $10.99) Here are the links for: Dutch Chocolate1: The Vice President is missing Kindle USA : http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B083Z5XWMB Kindle UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B083Z5XWMB Kindle Print: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/166188623X Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1000587 Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/g16HxtlL98A Ask David: http://askdavid.com/books/10892 Connect with BL Wilson at these links: Blog: https://wilsonbluez.com FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/patchworkbluezpress Goodreads: http://bit.ly/1BDmrjJ Twitter: http://bit.ly/11fAPxR Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B002BOJ19O […]
May 01

THE GUARDIAN & HER CAPTAIN, Agatha & Bonnie, a story of hate and love

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In The Guardian & Her Captain…, Dr. Sophie Jimson delivers a young woman’s baby in the rear of a taxi. Shortly after, the doctor is murdered by a phantom man that witnesses can’t describe. The Phantom, with the newborn in his arms, escapes, but an off-duty policewoman, Lieutenant Agatha Crist, grabs the baby from him. The baby is returned to the mother and the policewoman is hailed as a hero for rescuing the child. Agatha soon finds out that Dr. Jimson happens to be her fraternal twin. They were supposed to meet for the first time to end their lifelong estrangement. Agatha is distraught and insists on being part of the murder investigation team, despite her captain’s objections. As the investigation proceeds, it becomes clear the lieutenant needs as much protection as the new mother. The lieutenant’s supervisor, Captain Bonnie Smyth, steps into the case to protect both women. As the two women bump heads, sparks fly. Will they fall in love or continue the hatred they’ve been exposed to for generations? ASIN: B08D3WLFZ8 (Kindle Version $2.99) ASIN: B08CMF2CSR (Print Version $11.99) The Guardian & Her Captain: Agatha & Bonnie, a story of hate and love, (Jimson Murders Volume1), is […]
Apr 25

WHY I WROTE: Dutch Chocolate3; Blood Lust

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Years ago, long before the girl power, Black Girl Magic and the Me-Too movements, I watched Angela Jolie in the movie Laura Croft Tomb Raider. I was in love with movies again. I thought. Wow! Finally, an attractive woman in a lead role where she carries everything. She played the role of an adventurer, normally inhabited by a man. Think Harrison Ford in the Indiana Jones series or Nicholas Cage in the National Treasure series, both men played adventurer roles. Their movies were quite popular with moviegoers. While watching Tomb Raider again, years later, I thought to myself. How come there aren’t more action movies like this with women or minorities in main roles. Why aren’t they the stars of show? Is it because nobody would pay to see movies like this? I’d go see it. I bet I could find plenty of other folks would too. When Marvel brought Luke Cage to Netflix and it was so popular, I thought yay! Finally, a handsome Black man was starring in an adventure series that was popular enough to warrant a second-year renewal. Black Panther sealed the deal. It drew international appeal and acclaim as third most watched and popular movies […]
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