Making Black History

In honor of Black History Month, let's go through a little history: Phillis Wheatley was the first African American author for a book of poems, Althea Gibson was the first African American tennis player, and I won't get into the first black teacher. Meanwhile, I have a first as well. What a title it is too! I'm the first young African American to entitle 3 jobs as a teacher, author and tennis coach.
 To think, this all happened at the age of 16. Yep, at the age of 16, I was starting my life as an author writing The Bus Driver of Doom and The Unlucky Charm. At 18 these books were published and sold on about 3 websites, including Createspace, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble. In 2014 Shiver and Fears was added to 7 more websites (including social media)
 Back in 2011, I was included in a tennis lesson for young players, by 2013 the tennis coaches joined together and formed a tennis camp. By the age of 20 this tennis player was joining in tennis lessons to coach to new team The Cheetahs, by 2018 I was coaching 2 tennis teams.
And lastly, my teaching career started in 2012 over the summer as a Teacher in Training. By the year 2016, I was teaching my own class of 3rd graders. 
 By 2019 I've published 31 books, coaching 2 champion teams at my own church, and been teaching at the same school for almost 7 years now. How many historians African Americans have those 3 titles? It just shows some of us have a historical claim, even if it's not always accurate.
Happy Black History Month!

Caught on Camera

Taking a break on book blogging, because I have a question. Have you ever just minded your own business doing something and later looked in a newspaper or watched the news or even watched a video and said "Wait, I was there!" or "Hold on, when was that?" or what about "I recognize that place.." Well, earlier this week (Sunday to be exact) I was coaching with my buddy Shawn with 7 young players outside my church on our new courts and thought, 'What a great day.' Then today that young, little girl, with the blue racket, traveling around the cone, her mother (a friend of mine) showed me a newspaper with that tennis day on it.

I was in confusion, like when was this taken? Where am I in all this? Wasn't I there? All was answered when the church pastor (the man in the black jacket) posted this video on facebook. Well, my mouth dropped as I told myself, "I was there!" and asked, "Where am I in this?" "When was the newscast even there?"

Well, it was good to know that at 00:32 my friend Shawn and I had our spotlight moment with those 7 tennis champs. (I'm the one in white jacket and hat) I still wonder where those camera people were because I would have noticed them if they were there. (must have been in Coach Mode). who knew?

Shiver and Fears: Animated

 So far I've created paperback, audio, hardback, videos, songs, and kindle. One thing I haven't done is animated, well that's all going to change. I am working on making an animation video of a Shiver and Fears story!😲 Well maybe not the whole story, gosh that would take time and practice. Meanwhile, as I learn how to work in the animation system, I plan on working on little Shiver and Fears clips, like the one above. There's a lot of things an animator has to work on to get this straight, and I'm willing to work on this till I do. Now in the meantime what do you think of Shiver and Fears Don't Mock a Witch clip? I even have it as a GIF HERE.

But anyway, leave a comment and tell me what you think or even which book should be the first to be turned into a cartoon. Wow! Think about it, Shiver and Fears: The Animated Series, now the only question is,: Who will be the actors???

New Book, New News

So what's going on with Shiver and Fears lately? Well it's been on a pause since the so called "Number one fan" had a complaint that could have ruined my whole career! But with a few helpful encouraging words from other fans, I decided to do some things. Well one thing that I did while on a break was start a new book series "Magical Times" that is already on it's 3rd book. Right now this book is found on Lulu.com, but hopefully it can go other places as well.
Right now I'm on vacation in Grand Turk, it's been really hard keeping in touch with my readers, but I think I've gained a few more as I cruised around the sea on Carnival Sunshine. I'll be home giving the 411 soon, but as for now let me tell you about my plan in 2019. If you're reading this, you'll be the only one's to know about this secret plan. Here I go, Shiver and Fear is going audio! I know, I know it's already audio, but think about the millions of people who don't have an audible account, or can't have an audible account, or don't WANT an audible account! In 2019 Shiver and Fears will go audible on disk.
Do people still listen to CD's... Maybe not, but in this case they can download an audio book without remembering a password. This audio book will be on Amazon and ITunes... I think, I'm not sure how this new system is going. My old book publisher decided to change things, which aren't good on my side, so I decided to try another publishing system, Lulu.com, let's see where that takes me, from the looks of it not very far. I might just stay with Createspace.
Meanwhile, on this cruise I met a couple of kids, they are going to be in my next book: Cursed Cruise Trip. I was going to work with a book on a puppet family, but this one seems more exciting. These boys I met, I decided to place them in the story as the main characters, hopefully they'll email me so I can work with them on this story.
Got any question on what's new? Or maybe there's something that I didn't explain well enough, well whatever it is, comment on this blog and I'll give you what you need.

Tons of Work

Have you been keeping up with Shiver and Fears? Well Shiver and Fears has been on a break for the past week weeks. It's been mostly about Magical Times and the new Christmas album.

yes, so this author has his own Christmas CD. You want one? Buy it here. Meanwhile a few other things that's been happening as well. Shiver and Fears has donated audio books, which isn't easy, since it cost to give away your own work.

What else is going on? Well, it's not all about Shiver and Fears, Magical Times has been working hard. In fact, as we speak, copies of Magical Times are sold on Lulu. What is Magical Times? The new series, but don't worry Shiver and Fears isn't over.

  It's a new series about the author himself living a fantasy life with 3 kids in a mansion with his family. There's a surprise twist in the story that I don't want to spoil for you. Get your copy soon so you can find out the secret. Let me see, am I forgetting anything? Shiver and Fears donation, new CD, new book series, I guess that's it. Unless I include the new idea of audio books on disc. It's just an idea, but I thought about selling audio books on CD's. What do you think? Instead of wasting your time getting an Audible account get your audio book on disc. Leave a comment and explain your opinion. Should Shiver and Fears be sold on disc?

Sibling Subtraction's new cover

So we've decided to go with this for Shiver and Fears Sibling Subtraction cover. What do you think? So for those of you who don't know the story Sibling Subtraction, it's a story about a girl and her friends who all have a little sibling. Well, they play a mean prank on them leaving the young siblings in a cave they rumored was haunted. (how original, huh?)
 One girl has twin brother's and as she planned to go through with the plan, she decides it's a bad idea and turns back. Now, what happens next? You have to read it! You can buy it here ← (yes, click it!)
The cover idea comes from a boy who drew this↴

 It's a picture of the twin brothers. (One is actually a ghost) We changed it just a little: Our entree artist made them both seem mad, well there's only one ghost brother so we gave the other brother something to be afraid about. We hope this cover fits well with the story, tell us what you think of it

Should we get monsterfied this year?

For the past 4 years we have taken pictures and  twisted them with creepy eyes, horrifying noses, and dead red mouths.... What do you think, should we do it again this year? If you are unaware it's  actually not easy finding pictures to monsterfied. I guess our monsters are THAT scary! But question is are YOU that brave?  If we get enough yays then we'll accept any photos to monsterfy. See some of our old monsters:
 
we are hoping to upgrade this year to these:

 yep, that's Justin Beiber and no he, didn't send us that picture. But this year we hope to collect photots to use and share.

So tell us Yay or Nay?