Helping Our Young Black Men-Part 3

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I had the opportunity to meet a young black male over the weekend while I was in California at the 168 Hour Film Festival .  His name was LaMar and he was 15 years old.  What struck me immediately was that when his grandmother introduced us to one another, he looked me straight in the eyes, gave me a firm handshake and called me ‘Sir’.  "Did he just call me, Sir?"  When he did these things, I immediately thought to myself, "Now this young man has been given some real training."

It’s time to advance in your life!  I had the privilege of being on a conference call last week, with 41 other persons, hosted by Delatorro McNeal II .  He’s the author of Caught Between a Dream and a Job .  We all listened to an hour of his motivational teaching about pressing forward in our life’s pursuits - especially in this economy.

Delatorro shared many motivational principles, too numerous to list here, but here’s a few of them:

Getting to your destination in life requires you taking a journey. When you take a journey you need to know five things.

Alright, Allen Weaver has finally made the jump to Twitter.  Although… now I need to buy a phone that can access the internet and send text messages, lol!  I’m using my computer at the moment.  One step at a time.  Just wanted to let you know.  Feel free to check me out at twitter.com/APW3

Just wanted to share the short synopsis for second book, my upcoming novel, SpeedSuit Powers - to be released in June.  Enjoy and let me know what you think.

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SpeedSuit Powers A Novel by Allen Paul Weaver III

Imagine moving from the suburbs to the inner city and colliding with a bully who’s bigger than you, stronger than you and faster than you.  What do you do?

Curtis Powers is living this life!  Trying to pursue his dreams while avoiding his nemesis, Treyshawn Jinkins – who seems to exist just to make his days miserable!

I was blessed to be able to attend the NY Comic Con ‘09 convention at the Jacob Javits Center, this past weekend February 6-8.  It was an awesome time, with attendence in the thousands.

My primary reason for attending was to seek out artists and illustrators to work with me on my new book, SpeedSuit Powers.  My secondary reason was because I love comic books.  The outcome of the weekend proved to be extremely beneficial (despite my being physically exhausted from walking around for three days); providing contacts with artists, illustrators, writers, novelists and a noteable television personality.  I even hired artist/illustrator Shawn Alleyne to drawn his version of the main character from my novel, based on my concept drawings.  They came out great!

Hey people! Here’s what you’ve been waiting for - the synopsis about my new novel, SpeedSuit. I can’t tell you why it’s called SpeedSuit without giving away more than what I want to at this point in time. You understand, don’t you? Enjoy.

-Allen Paul Weaver III -

Curtis Powers has problems, but what teenager doesn’t? Peer pressure, relationships, family issues - the usual. Since his dad died it’s just been him, his mom and older brother.  Thank God for them or his world would’ve crumbled a few years back.  But Curtis keeps everything in check; and when things get to be too much, he writes, throws himself into his school work and watches his real passion: Track & Field. If it wasn’t for the asthma, he’d be doing more than watching.