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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Keith Kareem Williams, author of “Death in the City”

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Keith Kareem Williams, author of Death in the City

Death in the City is an anthology of intersecting stories that will give readers a raw, brutally honest and tragically beautiful view of urban life in the confines of a monstrous metropolis. On the pages of this book, you’ll read stories that feature characters that are sworn to protect and serve as well as protagonists who live far outside of the law. There are also chapters that feature working class residents of a corrupt city who are desperately trying to survive their trying circumstances.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Death in the City?

Keith Kareem Williams: Death in the City is an adaptation of a screenplay I wrote a few years ago titled, Gun Worship. Finding the funds to actually make the film proved to be challenging (to put it mildly), so I decided to convert it into a novel. I loved the storyline so much that I was desperate to get it into the hands of my readers, one way or another. Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Keith Kareem Williams, author of “Death in the City” →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Keith Kareem Williams, author of Tourniquet

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Keith Kareem Williams, author of Tourniquet
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Tourniquet is about a young couple, Angela and Gavin, who have very different home lives. They are both trying to navigate through very different but equally difficult, circumstances.

Gavin finds himself completely alone after his father’s death, and Angela is forced to be the woman of the house while battling an abusive step-father because her mother’s job keeps her away from home.

Gavin and Angela are also misfits that don’t fit in with most people their age, but somehow, they’ve found a deep connection to each other.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Tourniquet?

Keith Kareem Williams: Angela and her mother, Josephine, first appeared as side-characters in my novel War Angel. Their story was so powerful that I felt the need to revisit it to write about what their life had become, years after the tragic events that took place in that book. I’ve known so many women that have experienced what Angela goes through that I felt compelled to tell the story. Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Keith Kareem Williams, author of Tourniquet →