Odie Hawkins: 29 books

Hollow Daze is the fictional account of an imaginary publishing house and the shenanigans that occur between the publishers and the writers whose books have been published by this publishing house. The novel is written in a semi-documentary style, with excerpts from the works that each of the...

Midnight offers us a sensitive view inside the soul of a young African American gangster who is influenced by an older man, a convict, to look into his African side.   “You may not be what they’ve told you that you are, over here. When you check out where we came from.”

The seven astronauts who are about to embark on a Long Duration Mission (LDM) have decided that they would like to have female companionship. "Lady Bliss", designed by the mad scientist Dr. Eveready, is cautiously welcomed by the astronauts. Fast forwarding back. The LDM has been successful,...

Snake Doctor is a modern, African-American Faustian epic. The story is of a man who made a supernatural deal with a wizard in the Equatorial Rain Forest of Northern Ghana. The deal that was made guaranteed this man that he would receive the money he needed to make the break out film he yearned to...

There was no sharper con man on the streets of Chicago than Elijah Brookes. Women were his preferred prey—but no mark and no bankroll was safe when Elijah was on the prowl.   Cool, beautiful Toni warned him, “Elijah, brothers be playin’ games so hard sometimes they don’t know when to stop....

Henrik Malan was the South African secret agent who devised the plan to have the Black American ghettos destroy themselves by supplying them with a cheap but highly addictive drug known on the streets as “Ghetto Blaster.”

Shackles Across Time traces the history of a curse, of a spiritual fatwa, in a sense, on an African slave traders family in West Africa, and the subsequent effect of that curse on the family, over the course of three centuries. Modern technology helps the descendants to realize that something is not...

The central idea/premise behind Ancestral Meridians is that there are undiscovered acupuncture points that could lead mankind to higher spiritual and emotional planes. Ancestral Meridians is designed to explore the possibility that these points may exist. It should be clearly understood that acupuncture...

Palm Wine Junction has several stories reflecting the Pan-African Occult genre. I invite the perceptive reader to determine which stories come from that genre. I would also suggest that the prospective reader should not be led into thinking that the children, beautifully detailed by artist Suchin...

The Lil Gourmet Cookbook focuses on food that is good for you. The best kind of food and exercise create a harmonious lifestyle. Its not about a lot of running and kicking but about being sensible and consistent. There are foods we must forget about in order to have a healthier lifestyle. They fall...

Valonga Price takes a three-year sabbatical from the grime of owning her own company to try to discover her true self. Armed with questions that have been whirling around in her head, she travels to places like Brazil, San Salvador, Bahia, Nigeria, Cuba, and Japan.

Portrait of Simone is the poignant story of a young soldier stationed in the Deep South, in the recent past, and his romance with a woman nearly twice his age. Simone is mysterious, alluring, charming, complex. The author brings us the story of true love, love that grows deeper with the passage of time, and pays tribute to the woman known as Simone.

First off I have to say this loud and make it very clear from the very beginning; I am a descendant of one of the royal houses of African-American pimping. Let me add, I am a proud descendant. I know what Im about to tell you is going to rustle some feathers, make no mistake about that, but thats...

There is a gray/foggy area in this dynastic line that deserves closer study, but we can definitely say that Mr. Duke Mansion is the father of this modern line of pimps in this socio-psycho/bio study. And then his son, "Sweet Peter Deeder", who begat "Sweet Peter Deeder II aka Mr. Sweets", who begat...