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Apr.22.2013
A touching literary discovery, 402 Avalon follows a boy's journey during the 1950s through one of San Francisco's most eerie and mysterious houses that was built during the 1880s. This curious true story about the neglected boy, his uncommon family, the gushing growth of San Francisco and the...
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Apr.13.2013
When I began writing DUBROVNIK, my historical fiction novel with modern urban twists, a simply plot evolved. I didn’t outline the story or characters when I started writing, but having worked and lived in Dubrovnik, Croatia, I understood many of the complications involved. Gathering geographical...
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Feb.14.2013
Free erotic literature for your Kindle for the next 5 days. Tessa Blade introduces Christian Love in Love in Malawi, book 1. I was privileged to write the Foreword for this erotically charged and seductively forbidden first novel in the Christian Love book series. Get ready and enjoy!
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Dec.01.2012
Single and dedicated, wealthy and adrift, Tessa Blade travels the world, understanding that cultures and relationships are the main principles that interpret traditions, ethics and behaviors. With a University MBA, a Bachelor Degree in Criminal Justice and a Masters in Educational Psychology, she...
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Nov.18.2012
This is an excerpt from the yet to be released erotic novel Love in Malawi. This is neither a promotion nor a solicitation. I'd written the foreword and have permission from the author Tessa Blade to post this excerpt on this Red Room site. We hope you enjoy the beginning and please email me if you...
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Nov.01.2012
After I began writing the third chapter in my new erotic novel, Love in Malawi, trying to develop and spice up the main characters, choosing intelligent and exotic locations for the plot, edging the sensual characters into suggestive and sexually stirring situations, I’d decided to call Janis, my...
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Aug.09.2012
When I first started writing my new slightly erotic romance novel, Love in Malawi, on June 18, 2012, I didn’t know that Hillary Clinton, the 67th United States Secretary of State, would soon be visiting Malawi. She announced a major expansion of U.S. government investment in Malawi on Sunday August...
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Jan.22.2012
The attachment is the first page of an anonymous suicide letter I'd happen to inherit. The content is penetrating yet analytical, critical and assuredly incisive. The letter is cathartic and quietly simplistic. If you read this first page try not to be fooled by its format its displayed...
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Dec.10.2011
The iPad 2 on my desktop demanded my attention Thursday at 8 AM, as did my iPhone, my Canon SX30is and my Timex. Time was my essence principle. Oh yeah, I can’t forget to take the Kindle, my Kindle Fire. That was as simple as 1, 2, 3. I packed all the items in my briefcase. It wasn’t exactly a...
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Nov.23.2011
I saw the pink sky from my living room window, grabbed my Canon SX110 is, and ran across the front courtyard to the driveway, composed the shot at 10x zoom and captured the dry ninety degree sunset on August 18, 2010. I didn't even check the setting on the Canon but I knew that nature's show...
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Nov.22.2011
Blind Ambition
Short Story
SHE WAS smart, intuitive and blind. She was chic, sensitive and insightful. Elizabeth Epiphany was my twelve year old neighbor. During three summers she attended Cal School for the Blind—where she received a lexicon of instructions about life, liberty and liberation...
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Sep.26.2011
Music.
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. An Angela Monet quote.
Like many trendsetters in our society I was running late for my gig. It wasn’t really my gig. I was going to video shoot a music performance gig at Bullwacker’s Restaurant and...
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Sep.13.2011
I’d accepted a dinner invitation from an acquaintance. I’d met Sarah two weeks previous at the Alternative Café when I was video shooting Tom Faia and The Juice performing their original songs. Part literary gothic counterbalancing Emo nerdish fashion, I’d given Sarah my card without judging, told...
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Sep.01.2011
Accepting the invitation to stay the weekend in San Francisco at my son’s modern two-bedroom third floor flat on Monterey Boulevard while he was in Santa Barbara vacationing was my pleasure. Early Friday afternoon in Monterey, dressed in a blue denim shirt, black leather Nehru collar jacket and...
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Aug.01.2011
If it wasn't for living in a bubble all my life, the fundamentals of past promulgations, incumbency of rules, regulations and modules of rigorous lessons about how life should be lived as instructed to me by my parents and society, I'd have lived a different life cycle. Instead of riding on a...
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. ”
—Ernest Hemingway
About Ben
The ground breaking novels DUBROVNIK and "VITRUVIAN MAN," along with the third exciting addition in this discovery trilogy, REGENERATION, are powerful, gripping and stunning. The series is now complete.
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