Okay, I’ve given the reason behind The First Blow and Straight with Options and now it’s the motivation of And So Shall You Reap.

 There’s no big earth shattering reason behind this novel in the sense of something I have witnessed or anything of that nature. A short story of like six pages was given to me by my good friend, Donnell, and he asked if I would write the story. At first when I glanced over the six pages I thought to myself, “How the hell am I supposed to transform this into a novel”, but then I actually started reading it. The content, even though it wasn’t written in a novel format, was very captivating. In six pages he had a storyline, background info on characters, drama, ending result and overall great character dialogue. Stories with crazy drama seem to grab our attention and his short story really caught mine.

 I actually held on to his story, which was originally titled Reapers of the Heart, for about two years or so. Then one day I found the hard copy of it again and knew that I had to take the time to write the story. Reapers of the Heart and And So Shall You Reap are very different, yet in a lot of ways similar. I wanted to still use his story as the base, but still put my own twists to it. Trust me, there are a few twists.

 So there you have it.