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    3 Excerpts from Mr. Jefferson's Piano & Other Central Harlem Stories
    3 Excerpts from Mr. Jefferson's Piano & Other Central Harlem Stories
    3 Excerpts from Mr. Jefferson's Piano & Other Central Harlem Stories
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    3 Excerpts from Mr. Jefferson's Piano & Other Central Harlem Stories

    By B.L Wilson

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    Enjoy these 3 advance excerpts from Mr. Jefferson’s Piano & Other Central Harlem Stories!

    Contains the bonus blogs “Farewell, President Obama,” “Mr. Jefferson’s Dueling Book Covers,” and More!

    Order your copy of the complete book, on pre-order now for September 30, 2016!

    Mr. Jefferson’s Piano & Other Central Harlem Stories is the second edition of an anthology that weaves together a rich tapestry of 68 short stories, agency memos, and letters of events that take place during the late seventies, eighties, and nineties as seen through Melba Farris’ eyes. Melba writes notes about everything work-related, chronicling her journey into the field of property management as she tries to help her less fortunate brothers and sisters with their housing woes.

    Here, in a limited edition excerpt, author B.L. Wilson presents three tales that represent some of the delightfully funny, sometimes perplexing, but intriguing personalities the author encountered during twenty-five years as a property manager performing her job duties in city-owned buildings.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherB.L Wilson
    Release dateAug 20, 2016
    ISBN9781370973873
    3 Excerpts from Mr. Jefferson's Piano & Other Central Harlem Stories
    Author

    B.L Wilson

    B.L. has always been in love with books and the words in them. She never thought she could create something with the words she knew. When she read ‘To Kill A Mocking Bird,’ she realized everyday experiences could be written about in a powerful, memorable way. She wasn’t quite sure what to do with that knowledge so she kept on reading.Walter Mosley’s short stories about Easy Rawlins and his friends encouraged BL to start writing in earnest. She felt she had a story to tell...maybe several of them. She’d always kept a diary of some sort, scraps of paper, pocketsize, notepads, blank backs of agency forms, or in the margins of books. It was her habit to make these little notes to herself. She thought someday she’d make them into a book.She wrote a workplace memoir based on the people she met during her 20 years as a property manager of city-owned buildings. Writing the memoir, led her to consider writing books that were not job-related. Once again, she did...producing romance novels with African American lesbians as main characters. She wrote the novels because she couldn’t find stories that matched who she wanted to read about ...over forty, African American and female.

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      3 Excerpts from Mr. Jefferson's Piano & Other Central Harlem Stories - B.L Wilson

      3 Excerpts from

      Mr. Jefferson’s Piano

      & Other Central Harlem Stories

      by

      BL. Wilson

      Mr. Jefferson’s Piano

      Brought to you by

      Patchwork Bluez Press

      3 Excerpts from Mr. Jefferson’s Piano and blogs copyright 2016 by B. L. Wilson. All rights reserved. No part of this e-book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, without permission in writing from the author.

      This book is a work of fiction. Any similarity in name, description, or history of characters in this book to actual individuals either living or dead is purely coincidental.

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      FAREWELL, PRESIDENT OBAMA

      A little BACKSTORY FOR MR. JEFFERSON’S PIANO

      MAVIS & CHARLIE

      THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT

      DESMOND’S ROOF

      MR. JEFFERSON’S DUELING BOOK COVERS

      FAREWELL, PRESIDENT OBAMA

      The picture you see is Senator Obama in Wisconsin at a presidential rally in 2008. He’s holding an original copy of my first edition of Mr. Jefferson’s Piano and Other Central Harlem Stories. My publisher at the time was so excited to meet him. She decided to show him my book. Rumor has it that he loved to read, but I don’t know if the Senator kept the copy or even read it if he did. My publishers wanted to advertise the picture on their site and claim he loved the book. I disagreed. I said I thought it crossed the boundary into false advertising. I worried about being sued and so I checked their site every day for the next two weeks. My publishers tried every which way but loose to convince me. They finally gave up on the idea of posting the picture.

      Looking at the picture from eight years earlier,

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