First Post

I'm back! And better than before. I switched domain names for a more professional one and changed the atmosphere. Pretty sweet hunh? Well, this blog is for my book, "Black & White", and will have three authors- Ana Chapa, Circe Bogart, and me. For now. We may have more later as we add to our disfunctional online family, but for now it's three. Here, well be talking about how the book's coming in our own ways and how we're doing on it. You know, when we're inspired and things of that nature.

Anyways, I plan on letting Ana and Circe write about themselves and telling everyone their credits and stuff, but I'll give you their job descriptions. Circe is a very talented artist who has two other projects in the making, but still finds time to help with the illustrations from the book. Ana is a fellow writer who tells me what I do wrong and where I can improve in some places. She's also very good at this and I trust her judgement. I'm, as I said before, the author of the book and have actually been slacking off because of my groundation. I'm off parol now and I should be good. I've been called a modern Edgar Allen Poe because of my dark writing. I'm currently putting together another book of short compositions called "Happy?". It's pretty much a book of melancholy compositions that I've written over the years and have gone through some editing into a book format. I'm also working on that one to, but "Black & White" is an actual novel.

OK. First of all, I'm a Christian. No doubt about that. And even though my work may be dark, it has Christian values. I just wanted to say that to make it perfectly clear about my work. Okay. Moving on. The book is about a fifteen year old named Derek Alexander Cartel, and his best friend Cory. (Cory's a girl.) In the book, Derek is a depressed teen and orphan that just lost his parents in a homicide three years earlier. Though raised in a Christian home, he rejects God and basically becomes and atheist. Cory, however, is a pastor's kid and has been his best friend since they were in Kindergarden. Derek wasn't always a depressed kid, but after the death of his parents, he lost all positivity in the world. His guardian, Harold Cartel, isn't any help either. An alcoholic drunk, Harold continually makes life difficult for Derek by abusing him physically and mentally, and (as if it couldn't get any worse.) his school life is filled more abuse from the jock known as Allen Wright. So, due to all the abuse, he becomes hard internally, never showing emotion, and hard externally, becoming a fighter. So later on in a near death experience, he discovers his amazing abilities from the God he rejects. He is able to make light and darkness his weapons. The dark is used as a manifestation of his sin when he uses his powers to commit wrong and the light is used as a manifestation of his righteousness when he uses his powers for good. Plus, due to his emotional state, he pretty much has no conscience, so Cory has to take that job. AND, in the end, he must choose between saving the world, or destroying it. That's the three reasons for the title of the book, and that's pretty much the plot line of the book. There are other characters, but you'll see them later as we talk about them.

Well, that's it for now. Laters.

-Dane Spearman