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    Hot Like Fire

    I happened to see a fantastic sports graphic design of Gonzaga’s Jalen Suggs by Hoops, and I loved the composition and colors so much I tried to re-create it for my fictional basketball player:

     

    Sports Graphic of Jalen Suggs, Point Guard from Gonzaga

     

     

    Yul Sukari, power forward for Big Nu. Yul is Indonesian American and the leading man in my upcoming New Adult novel. I used the freeware Paint.net for this.

     

    Congrats to Baylor (mens basketball) and Stanford (womens) for their NCAA title wins this year. 

     

     

    Lilith on fire. Edited purchased stock photo.

     

     

    Lilith does Magic GIF

     

    Shoutout to the original artist named syaifulptak57 from Indonesia. Illustrators and Photographers post royalty free creations on Pixabay. They don’t require attribution, but its only right to give credit where credit is due. Here’s the original artwork from syaifulptak57 that I edited in order to create the above GIF for Lilith:

     

    fantasy-5758199_1920 by syaifulptak57 from PIXABAY.COM Click the image to go to artist’s PIXABAY page.

     

    If anyone knows the original author of this GIF please let me know:

     

    Found it on Pinterest and Twitter but without an attribution.

     

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    A Discovery of Black Witches

    Lilith makes an entrance:

    Lilith at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. This is page one of her Graphic Novel, a promo for her ebook.

     

     

    Lilith is from West Africa. Ondine is from the US. Pagan is from England.

     

    The name of this erotic paranormal series won’t be revealed yet:

    Pictured: The Gargoyle Karnage, the Vampire Yuri, the Warlock Ronin and who they’re paired with.
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    Showing some South Asian Luv

    My next books will feature South Asian leading males:

     

    Power forward Yul Sukari going for a dunk. He’s an Indonesian American Leading Man.

     

    NCAA elite athletes and college sweethearts Rhea Chappelle and Yul Sukari

     

     

    Pictured: Christian and Emmanuel. Christian is Filipino-American. Emmanuel is a vibrant, sexually active woman navigating the dating scene. Her story is a continuation of my Sex and the Single Paraplegic series (At Last is the first book).
  • Filmmaking,  Of interest

    Black Panther II – What about Azari?

    If ever an actor embodied a role, it was the late great Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa in Black Panther.

     

    Chadwick Boseman was and will always be thought of as Black Panther for many.

     

    Chadwick was also excellent portraying James BrownI must also mention Nelsan Ellis, who died at the the young age of 39. Nelsan portrayed Bobby Byrd to Chadwick’s James Brown in the film Get On Up.

    Chadwick’s stellar acting as Jackie Robinson in the film 42 deserves mention as well. Sadly, Chadwick’s life was cut short by cancer, a disease that claimed my mom a few years ago. Marvel announced that the role would not be recast for Black Panther II, which is a fitting tribute to Chadwick’s legacy.

    So, how can Marvel honor Chadwick and continue T’Challa’s story? Well, how about introducing his son Azari, the child T’Challa had with his ex-wife Storm?

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    Sweet Fantasy

    The Project: Create a short graphic novel that combines several of my upcoming ebook characters and crosses literary genres.

     

    Pagan’s Fantasy, low resolution. Photo editing and line art combined. Separate images are from Pixabay.com

     

    Here’s how the above scene will be on Page 2 of the graphic novel:

    Low Resolution mock up of Paranormal Graphic novel

     

    Graphic Novel beginning scene featuring Pagan

     

     

    Lovers Karnage and Pagan

     

     

     

     

    Karnage Xian taking off his shirt. Also pictured: His love interest, Pagan

     

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    The Graphic Novel Treatment

    First thing – The Boys are back! This is a scifi anti-Superhero show on Amazon Prime Video featuring three of my favorite actors, Karl Urban, Laz Alonzo and Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito

     

    The Boys promo I edited (Yes I did, cuz there’s no way Laz Alonzo’s fine ass face should’ve been as small as it was in the original. I enlarged/edited Jessie Usher and Karen Fukuhara’s pics also 🙂

     

    Here’s the original:

    The Boys Original Promo

     

    The Boys are based on a popular graphic novel of the same name.

    Since I create ebook promos, I decided to give my trio of witches Lilith, Ondine and Pagan the graphic novel treatment. Here’s a sneak peek at Pagan’s comix:

     

    The witch Pagan makes magic. Also pictured: Gargoyle crown prince Karnage Xian

     

    The Graphic Novel Treatment for Pagan and Karnage (with a cameo by the werewolf Dre Santana). Low resolution version.
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    La Belle Emmanuel

    My Sex and the Single Paraplegic Series continues with Emmanuel and Christian’s virtual love affair.

     

    La Belle Emmanuel

     

     

    She’s a baddddd girl. And he’s more than willing to be her bad boy. 

     

     

    Leading man Christian Chua playing guitar

     

     

    Emmanuel isn’t afraid to use what she’s got to get what she wants.

     

     

     

     

    Pictured – Christian Chua and Emmanuel fight fire with fire.

     

  • Contemporary Romance,  New Adult,  Of interest

    Meteor Garden/Boys Over Flowers

    Dao Ming Si, Hua Ze Lei (just Lei in the series) Xi Men, and Mei Zuo are the four leading males in the 2001 Taiwanese Meteor Garden and 2018 Chinese remake of Meteor Garden.

    The main female lead is named Shan Cai.

     

    “Meteor Garden is the classic love story; rich boy (Dao Ming Si) falls for poor girl (Shan Cai) and obstacles ensue.”                                                                                        -IMDB description

     

    Each version is based on the blockbuster manga BOYS OVER FLOWERS by Yoko Kamio

    Boys Over Flowers by Yoko Kamio

     

    I watched the 2018 version first, then the South Korean version titled Kkotboda namja (2009) “Boys Over Flowers.” Loved Min-Ho Lee as the rich thug Joon Pyo who falls for the poor student named Jan Di. His hairdo reminded me of the late, great Prince:

    Prince with his Purple Rain curls

     

    Min-ho Lee as Joon Pyo in BOYS OVER FLOWERS

     

    The F4 guys (the actors real names are listed) in the Korean version of Boys Over Flowers

     

    Leading lady Hye-Sun Ku portrayed Jan-Di, the “Shan Cai” of the Korean version.

    Haven’t seen the Japanese version yet, but I hope to view it soon.

    I thought the 2018 remake was good, as there were some much needed updates done on the story.

    Chinese version of the fabulous F4 from Meteor Garden. From left to right -Caesar Wu, Dylan Wang, Darren Chen and Connor Leong

     

    Then I saw the 2001 version with Jerry Yan, Vic Chou, Vanness Wu, Barbie Hsu and Ken Zhu, via You Tube.

     

    Meteor Garden 2001 version with Jerry Yan, Ken Zhu, Victor Chou and Vanness Wu as F4

     

     

    Until I view the Japanese version, Barbie Hsu is the best Shan Cai imho. There’s bullying and violence, gaslighting, in short no matter which version please don’t let kids or teens watch without adult guidance.

    The 2001 version is my favorite. One of the reasons is below:

     

     

     

     

    Back in 2001 the Taiwan version at least included a black woman with the “player” of the group, Xi Men. She didn’t have any lines, and her screen time was brief, but still . . .

    NetFlix has Meteor Garden 2018 and Boys Over Flowers 2009, while YouTube has Meteor Garden 2001. All versions have English subtitles.