If you came for Fashionista Friday, scroll on down after you read about Jim Moorman and his book. Thanks!
Sonny Flowers is pure, charming genius when it
comes to biochemistry and genetics - specifically, marijuana and its potential
to make the world a more joyful place, but he still has a lot to learn about
fatherhood, guilt, women, happiness and himself, and very little time to learn
it in. Sonny has already lost one daughter and will lose the other unless he
can win her back - and do it before he literally loses his mind. With the Feds
about to shut down his Stateside marijuana farm and laboratory, Sonny finds
himself in Jamaica working for a self-proclaimed Rastafarian Deity whose wife
has overdosed on the very hybrid plant Sonny and his daughter, Summer, are
struggling to perfect as a cure for what has become a world epidemic: Bipolar
Disorder. A crooked general, determined to make a splash in the world, has
other ideas for the hybrid's properties. Faced with sharks (the salty kind), a
plane crash, a tongueless henchman, the haunting memories of those he's loved
and lost (and why it was probably his fault), not to mention his own blooming
psychosis, Sonny finds help wherever the universe is willing to provide it:
Dehlia Storm, a nineteen-year-old voodoo priestess, and her two-timing
boyfriend, are for some reason willing to help Sonny save the two women he loves.
Time running out, Sonny not only has to decide which characters in this crazy
story he's living he can trust, but also what is real and what decidedly is
not.
Meet Jim Moorman, a shining example of all that
is wrong in the universe.
A bear of very little brain, Jim has somehow
managed to adorn the back cover of what might be best described as a very
readable book. Barely literate himself, Jim has beaten all the odds and has
actually managed to string together more than a few coherent sentences. Those
sentences, paragraphs, and pages work to form Jamaican Flowers, Jim's debut
novel.
Jamaican Flowers is a testament to Jim's love of
all things tropical and light-hearted. A former member of the U.S. Navy, he
served as part of the Presidential Ceremonial Guard in Washington D.C. and
spent two years abroad in South Korea. After returning to the states, he
pursued a career in sales and marketing in the technology sector, writing and
scribbling in the evenings and weekends.
He holds no fancy degrees and remains obstinately
determined to master the craft of writing novels, even in spite of suffering
from ADHD. His sarcasm knows no bounds and he maintains that he writes to
inspire and entertain his willing readers. In his spare time, Jim enjoys whistling,
laughing, and just taking it easy. If you can believe it, he's a father and
claims it to be the best job he's ever had.
Follow him on Twitter @jimmoorman
Look for his next release, Rumba Republic, to be
released at the end of 2012 (if we're still here after December 21st.)
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