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Odie Hawkins, (www.odiehawkins.com, Facebook and www.odiehawkins.blogspot.com) “the Undergroundmaster”, was a member of the famed Watts Writer’s workshop, established by Budd Schulberg and the Open Door Program, created by the Writers Guild of America, West, Inc. His mentors/teachers were Louise Meriwether, John W. Bloch, Al Jenner, Robert Lewin and Harlan Ellison. Hawkins had 17 novels in different genres published by the Holloway House Publishing Company in Los Angeles over the course of twenty years. Holloway House sold its assets to Kensington Press, New York, and Hawkins obtained a reversion of all rights to his works in 2008, with the assistance of The Authors Guild, the National Writers Union and the Screenwriters Guild West, Inc. Fourteen (14) of the previously published books have been re-issued by iUniverse Publishing, (www.iUniverse.com) with thirteen (13) new covers by the internationally recognized photographer/illustrator, Zola Salena-Hawkins, (http://www.flickr.com/photos/32886903@N02/) cover by the internationally recognized photographer Nima Razfar (www.nimarazfar.com) . In addition, four print-on-demand titles have been published by AuthorHouse (www.AuthorHouse.com). On January 28, 2012, Hawkins, with other former members of the Watts Writers’ Workshop – Wanda Coleman, Dee Dee McNeil, Eric Priestly. Kamau Daaood, Ojenke Otis O’Soloman and others were honored in a Pacific Standard Time program at the Watts Towers Art Center, sponsored by the Getty Foundation, and hosted by Sally Shore. Odie Hawkins and Zola Salena-Hawkins established the Kosmic Muffin Publishing House in 2008. “We created Kosmic Muffin for several reasons: · One, we wanted to break out of the traditional sweat box of waiting for other publishing bureaucracies to open their doors. · Two, we have several works in different genres – “Kwanzaa For Conrad”, “Snake Doctor”, “The Urban Gourmet Cookbook”, “Black and Brown on the Blue Line”. “Lil’ Sweets”, Characters I’ve Known”, and “A Lucky Life” that would not have an easy time in a traditional publishing establishment, because of the interwoven genres and the subject areas. · Finally, we felt that it was absolutely necessary, if we wanted to retain control of our creative efforts, to have a publishing house. And so, we created the Kosmic Muffin Publishing House. The future looks bright. iUniverse Books – by Odie Hawkins
By Odie Hawkins [Cover by Zola Salena-Hawkins] An enchanting intro to a collection of unforgettable characters – Elizabeth, “Queen of the Projects”; the girl “Billie” who sings like Lady Day; young Randolph who, to his family’s embarrassment, grows a second head for awhile; Dean Dale Jackson, talented writer, sculptor, auto mechanic, dedicated to the underbelly of a bottle; the Vernon family upwardly mobile but required by a will to grow cotton in their suburban backyard; and Marlene and James, who find happiness in an unexpected way, in marriage. Published: 1/2012, Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W), Size: 5x8 ISBN: 978-1-45024-961-4, Print Type: B/W
By Odie Hawkins [Cover by Zola Salena-Hawkins] Chicago the center of America’s heartland, from its founding in the late 1700’s by Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable, a French educated Black man, to the modern day Gypsies who live on Maxwell Street. It’s a city steeped in Black History. This is the story of a city where a unique African-American history has grown, a center for the emergence of jazz, blues, dance, art, and the Du Sable Museum of African-American History. Thanks to Dr. Margaret Burroughs founder, teacher, pioneer. ………………………Hello Oprah!
Published: 1/12/2012, Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W), Pages: 172, Size: 5x8 ISBN: 978-1-45026-778-6, Print Type: B/W
By Odie Hawkins [Cover by Zola Salena-Hawkins] Valonga Price takes a three year sabbatical from the grime of owning her own company to try to discover her true self. Armed with questions that have been whirling around in her head, she travels to places like Brazil, San Salvador, Bahia, Nigeria, Cuba and Japan. Published: 1/10/2012, Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W), Pages: 168, Size: 5x8, ISBN: 978-1-45026-777-9, Print Type: B/W
By Odie Hawkins [Cover by Zola Salena-Hawkins] There was no sharper con man on the streets of Chicago than Elijah Brookes. Women were his preferred prey— but no mark and no bankroll was safe when Elijah was on the prowl. Cool, beautiful Toni warned him, “Elijah, brothers be playin’ games so hard sometimes they don’t know when to stop. You know what I’m sayin?” Elijah Brookes had to learn the ultimate lesson the hard way. So many games to be played, so little time. Published: 1/6/2012, Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W), Pages: 228, Size: 5x8 ISBN: 978-1-45024-955-3, Print Type: B/W
By Odie Hawkins [Cover by Zola Salena-Hawkins]
Henrik Malan was the South African secret agent who devised the plan to have the Black American ghettos destroy themselves by supplying them with a cheap but highly addictive drug known on the streets as “Ghetto Blaster”. Published: 1/10/2012, Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W), Pages: 168, Size: 5x8 ISBN: 978-1-45024-954-6, Print Type: B/W
By Odie Hawkins In the post-Watts Rebellion 1970’s, Chester L. Simmons takes up the study of martial arts — Hapkido and Tae Kwon Do. Author Odie Hawkins, using his special blend of wry humor, incisiveness and and sensitivity, takes alter ego Simmons through that experience, as well as a series of misadventures, writing movie and television scripts for Hollyweird studios. Published: 1/12/2012, Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W). Pages: 208, Size: 5x8 ISBN: 978-1-45024-963-8, Print Type: B/W
By Odie Hawkins [Cover by Zola Salena-Hawkins] An enchanting intro to a collection of unforgettable characters—Bobo, Burks, Leo (sometimes, when into imaginative self-hatred, alias Tony De Medrow), Billy Woods, Herb Cross, Bruce, Mooney, Johnny Fox, Bernard Kelly and a few others who lived in the same neighborhood and hung out on the same corners. Some of the less informed thought we were a “gang” because we spent a lot of time together, but that was the result of them being unable to penetrate the esoteric haze surrounding our relationships. There were times, to be honest, when we didn’t know what was happening either. Published: 1/2012, Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W), Size: 5x8 ISBN: 978-1-45026-779-3, Print Type: B/W
By Odie Hawkins [Cover by Zola Salena-Hawkins] “Midnight” offers us a sensitive view inside the soul of a young African-American gangster who is influenced by an older man, a convict, to look into his African side. “You may not be what they’ve told you that you are, over here. When you check out where we came from.” Published: 12/30/2011, Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W), Pages: 196, Size: 5x8 ISBN: 978-1-45024-958-4, Print Type: B/W
By Odie Hawkins [Cover by Nima Razfar] “Portrait of Simone” is the poignant story of a young soldier stationed in the Deep South, in the recent past, and his romance with a woman nearly twice his age. “Simone” is mysterious, alluring, charming, complex. The author brings us the story of true love, love that grows deeper with the passage of time, and pays tribute to the woman known as “Simone”. Published: 1/10/2012, Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W), Pages: 180, Size: 5x8 ISBN: 978-1-45024-959-1, Print Type: B/W
By Odie Hawkins [Cover by Zola Salena-Hawkins] The deeply personal story of Odie Hawkins's journey, from "the poorest of the poor" childhood in Chicago to Hollywood screenwriter--and the people who deply mattered. A tough, touching autobiography "A tough, gritty book about a survivor"-- Iyalosha Tanina Shangobumni. Published: 1/2012, Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W), Size: 5x8 ISBN: 978-1-45026-776-2, Print Type: B/W
By Odie Hawkins [Cover by Zola Salena-Hawkins] Odie Hawkins utilizes the same thrust, power, and creativity that made “Ghetto Sketches” his first best seller. He has moved the focus from Chicago to Los Angeles; and once again, he has populated his stories with unforgettable characters—the telephone freak, the tenants of Mrs. Solomon’s apartment building, a few surrealistic types. The “Secret Music” we all hear is echoed within these stories…. Published: 1/6/2012, Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W), Pages: 228, Size: 5x8 ISBN: 978-1-45024-960-7, Print Type: B/W
The Busting Out of An Ordinary Man By Odie Hawkins [Cover by Zola Salena-Hawkins] Morning evening comn’ down--the dreariest day of the week anywhere, but especially in the ghettos (yea, y’all, they still there) where people have taken their hangovers and other symptoms of a fast weekend to their individual plantations around town (if they’re lucky enough to have one) return to their shacks for four/five more days of clock punching and locksteppin’ before the Eagle flies. Then was then and now is now. What’s the difference? Published: 1/6/2012, Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W), Pages: 188, Size: 5x8 ISBN: 978-1-45024-957-7, Print Type: B/W
By Odie Hawkins [Cover by Zola Salena-Hawkins] Chester L. Simmons, nicknamed “The Great Lawd Buddha” by his hip constituents because of his almond shaped eyes and his generous tummy, is one of those delightfully free spirits that life gives to the world now and then. With his storytelling he sometimes fuses reality and creativity into a seamless possibility; or seamless possibilities. He has been known to bend the truth, if the truth was not creating the right kind of life vibe for him. Published: 1/6/2012, Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W), Pages: 248, Size: 5x8 ISBN: 978-1-45024-962-1, Print Type: B/W
The Life and Times of Chester L. Simmons By Odie Hawkins [Cover by Zola Salena-Hawkins] Let Chester take you on a journey through Spain in his search to find himself - and write about it. He hooks up with “El Encanto”, a star-crossed matador. Then back to the States, where he meets and marries the love of his life. A honeymoon in West Africa leaves them yearning for a place they’ve never known, but feel is their home... Published: 1/6/2012, Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W), Pages: 208, Size: 5x8 ISBN: 978-1-45024-956-0, Print Type: B/W
AUTHORHOUSE BOOKS BY ODIE HAWKINS [Note: AuthorHouse is in the process of providing these books as e-books.]
AUTHORHOUSE BOOKS BY ODIE HAWKINS
By Odie Hawkins and Ralph H. Vernon The seven astronauts who are about to embark on a Long Duration Mission (LDM) have decided that they would like to have female companionship. "Lady Bliss", designed by the mad scientist Dr. Eveready, is cautiously welcomed by the astronauts. Fast forwarding back. The LDM has been successful, with help from "Lady Bliss", but she has to remain a secret because of the sociopolitical climate. NAPA ("National Association for Protection of Astronauts", -- think Orwellian) decides that "Lady Bliss" should be disassembled. The astronauts decide to release her into space. A Solar Gulf Stream washes "Lady Bliss," onto the shores of the Planet Azii, where she is thought to be the re-incarnation of Mali, the It Being.
By Odie Hawkins Mr. Bonobo Bliss” is a humanoid designed by the Dr. Maxwell Waters Group to accompany six female astronauts on a long duration mission. “B.O’s” presence must be kept a secret because of the sociopolitical climate of the time. Unfortunately, for the “astranauettes,” the secret is leaked and their mission is scrubbed. They return to Earth with serious cases of post-traumatic romantic-stress disorders. “Mr. Bonobo Bliss” escapes to the Amazon forest and Dr. Maxwell Waters and her husband, the former head of the National Association Protection of Astronauts, are forced into “exile.” They re-surface as the pioneers of the Antigua Space Program (“ASP”), the brainchild of the Antiguan Minister of Tourism, who wants to boost the tourism trade. Footnote: "Bonobo" - The Bonobo monkeys, sometimes called “the love monkeys”, they use romantic/physical/sexual means to resolve their primate problems. They are the only known species of monkeys to have sex face to face.
By Odie Hawkins “Shackles Across Time” traces the history of a curse, of a spiritual fatwa, in a sense, on an African slave trader’s family in West Africa, and the subsequent effect of that curse on the family, over the course of three centuries. Modern technology helps the descendants to realize that something is not cool with their spiritual DNA, but they must use ol’fashioned means to cope with the problem. They engage the services of a well-known writer (a case of serendipity, he has written about their family in his book about the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade). The mediator is called an okyeame. The okyeame meets with the descendants of the man who pronounced the curse and unfortunately, must undergo the spiritual cleansing necessary for him to be taken seriously. His life is changed by his ordeal. It is also instrumental in having the curse lifted from the African slave trader’s descendants.
SWEET PETER DEEDER II a.k.a. ‘MR. SWEETS' By Odie Hawkins First off I have to say this loud and make it very clear from the very beginning; I am a descendant of one of the royal houses of African-American pimping. Let me add, I am a proud descendant. I know what I’m about to tell you is going to rustle some feathers, make no mistake about that, but that’s the way it’s been with me all my pimping life. When I say I’m a descendant of one of the royal houses, I mean it. I can back it up with bona fide DNA/geneo-logical evidence. Now then, having said that, I want to make it clear that my economic/sexual activities stem directly from my introduction to “The Prince” by Niccolo Machiavelli and “The Kama Sutra,” that love treatise for the ages. And, my life long dream to explore an area of human endeavor that has seldom been explained in any reasonable way. I’d like to make that the linchpin word for this book, reasonable.
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