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Author of Butta' and The Tower of Bling
Corey Aaron Burkes was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Jamaica, Queens November
7th 1968. His earliest writing began at the age of five, constantly designing stories for his mother, friends and
family until May of 1977 when Star Wars debuted, freeing his imagination in directions he never thought possible. Praying
deeply, Corey desired to be able to captivate an audience profoundly as he was. And the answer came—not in so many words—live
life.
And that he
did, sampling almost everything life had to offer—the highs and lows of relationships, college life (Nassau Community),
careers, employment, travel and vast friendships of multi-cultures—discovering, ever so slowly, who he was as much as
the world around him. Every step of the way, writing voraciously and squirreling away his stories. These were the old days,
prior to ‘desktop publishing’, when traditional author-submission publishing ruled the land … and a writer’s
dues were paid by rejection letters.
As it turns out, experiencing life’s good, bad and ugly and seeking
a wider scope of friendships outside of his common surroundings had been the secret to Corey’s persistent writing, which—regardless
of his past financial or relationship status—stayed consistent at a confirmed twenty original stories per week. His
ability to see the flow of a story is based on living the flow of life—a wave pattern that carries the audience emotions
from one arc to another, as does life’s real-time motion picture. Therein lies the storytelling he always wanted to
achieve—the ability to move a person’s emotions—by understanding first he had to live life.
Corey
is married, has a highly-successful website (desktopepics.com) of his short works featuring the internet-renown ‘The N-Word’ (since 2000 has received millions of views). He
has completed his first short film, ‘The Daylight Werewolf’ in 2006 and has published his debut action/adventure,
thriller, Butta’ and the Tower of Bling July 2007. He has a host of friends and family, two brothers, two sisters, five
children and one forthcoming. The art of living is his art of writing.
Be sure to check out Corey Burke's
debut novel, Butta' and the Tower of Bling, by visiting his website at www.skyelightbooks.com
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