I was thinking about the process of writing and putting together my third book and came across some old papers and writings of my first book titled “The Speculation of Librase”. I never released this book but I remember sitting around my house in California and coming up with this concept. The story that I came up with was about this African American boy named Librase who was brought up in a very rich suburb of Chicago called Hinsdale.
His father was a former professional NBA basketball player and his mother was an accomplished and highly successful best selling author. Librase was an only child living with his moms and pops in an unbelievable mansion complete with an air landing strip as a backyard. His parents’ private jet would fly in and out of their driveway in the back of the house in their own jet.
While on a book signing tour in the United Kingdom, his mother and father died in a plane crash on the way from Malta to Palermo. Librase could not handle the loss of both of his parents and despite the fact that they had millions, Librase simply couldn’t deal with the guilt of having all of this money that his parents left him.
Despite encouragement from friends, Librase began drinking and got hooked on heroine. He lost his parents’ home and all of his money and became homeless sleeping in the streets of Chicago. He ends up going to prison over some crazy foolishness that happens to him and while incarcerated ends up writing a book called “The Speculations”.
In a crazy twist of fate, Librase ends up meeting some cats in jail who ended up helping him restore his confidence after hearing their stories of living on death row.
I’m still finishing this manuscript and building the plot but it was fascinating to see my first book title and concepts on paper.
