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Julius Thompson on the Julia Widdop National BlogTV Show!

I will be making my first National BlogTV Show appearance on Monday, June 18, 2012 at 10:30 am via Webcam, on the Julia Widdop BlogTV show from the main studio in Grand Junction, Colorado! The airtime will be on Wednesday, June 20, 2012. Check back for links to watch the broadcast. Wow, this is wonderful! What an opportunity to be interviewed by incredible host Julia Widdop from the Julia Widdop Productions: Publishers Speak and SeekersJourney TV.Com. Please visit www.juliaWiddop.com to learn more about the Publishers Speak BlogTV programs. Each interview is about 25-30 minutes long. The interview will be pre-recorded and I will have it uip and running on my website: www.purplephantoms.com and the host will upload to http://YouTube.com/juliawiddop After the interview, and later that evening, I will be in the TV show chat room to answer questions from viewers. I will send out a link for the TV Show chat room closer to the interview date. I will send links to the TV interview to Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Wordsmith Blog, Authorsden, and Blogger and also my publisher, Passionate Writer Publishing. In the TV interview, I will be discussing my new novel Purple Phantoms, published by Passionate Writer Publishing. This novel follows on the success of the 2011 Readers Favorite Gold Medal Award Winning, Ghost of Atlanta, also published by PWP. Ghost of Atlanta is the third book in the Julius Thompson Trillogy which includes A Brownstone in Brooklyn and Philly Style and Philly Profile. PWP did a wonderful job with my last novel, Ghost of Atlanta, which won a 2011 National Fiction Award. I will travel to the Miami Book Fair International in November 2012 to pick up the Gold Medal. Purple Phantoms has started garnering a ground-swell of national interest in the pre-publication stage. Purple Phantoms one-line synopsis: "Five Ghosts--basketball players whose lives were cut short--return to haunt five basketball starters to help them try to win the coveted State Championship."

Please Respond to the quote from A Brownstone in Brooklyn!

I was asked to choose a quote from my first novel, A Brownstone in Brooklyn, to reflect on the unpredictable nature of life. How things are never the same and human beings have to adjust to life's changing events. A Brownstone in Brooklyn is about growing up in the turbulent sixties, one of the most event filled decades in Black-American history. A Brownstone in Brooklyn chronciles the life-altering events that shape the future of Andy Michael Pilgrim, a young man growing up in the turbulent sixties. This is a quote from Sister Love, a character sitting on the B-52 bus riding to her job at the A&S Department Store in downtown Brookyn. She's watching some young kids playing in the the water squirting from a fire hydrant. What do you think? What is your reaction to this quote? "The most special times in a person's life are not meant to last forever. They're like bubbles from a plastic ring dipped into a soapy solution. The soap bubbles rise, with the sun flashing brillant colors, then bursts into a showery memory mist." ---Julius Thompson, A Brownstone in Brooklyn Please leave a response or email your response: juliusthompson@purplephantoms.com

Thompson On...One Writer's Journey to Writing Success!

Sometimes when I enter my writing area, in a corner of my office, it seems that words will not come and the critic inside me attacks my creativity with a constant bombardment of negative thoughts. Enough! Finally, I sit down, strike the letters on the keyboard and let the words energize each other as they create vivid word pictures that become vibrant mental images for my readers. I'm on my writing schedule and I believe in my myself! I wasn't always this confident in my writing ability. I listened to the "Rules Police" or "Peer Critics" and didn't believe enough to even look inside myself to come up with the courage to write a single line. I was scared, really scared, at one time in my life, many years ago in my high school days in the turnbulent sixties. What developed confidence in my writing abiiity? It was faithful fall day, when I was a junior at Bushwick High School, in Brooklyn, New York. I was scared to express any thoughts, because of my rural southern background where you had to put your ego under a deep cover of quietness, and where any opinions brought out retribution. Heck, I was even afraid to look people in the eye because of the oppressive segregated atmosephere of small-town Georgia. Self-Esteem and Self-Confidence was lacking in my personality. I knew I had this amazing ability to write, but the motivation and confidence was zero. I was now in my second year, at Bushwick, after moving from Statham, Georgia, population 300 and segregated, to Brooklyn, population 3,000,000 and integrated. I got up enough nerve to ask my English teacher and student council/general organization sponsor, Ms. Egan, the question. If the answer was negative, all my hopes and dreams of becoming the next great novelist would be dashed. I knocked hard on the door to her office, entered, and asked, "Can I be a writer?" She stared at me for a few moments and then said, "Do It!" I haven't looked back. As a high schol English teacher, I know the power of positive or negative words in a students life. I learned that fall day in Brooklyn and I instill that confidence in my students today: 2012. Oh, my writing Career: ***I wrote articles for The New York times. ***I wrote for the Philadelphia Bulletin (National Sports Writing Award---third best story in the United States in 1977) ***I wrote for the Atlanta Journal Constitution. ***I wrote for the Associated Press. ***I wrote for Sports Scene Magazine ***I wrote for Parade Magazine ***Georgia Author of the year nominee 2007(For my novel Philly Style an Philly Profile). ***Georgia Author of the year nominee 2011 ( for my nvoel Ghost of Atlanta) ***2011 National Fiction Award Winner for Ghost of Atlanta! Ms. Egan would be proud!!!!! Not bad for a scared little kid from the Bush Chapel Section of a small town in Georgia. I'm telling you like my high school English teacher told me: "Do it!" Happy Writing!