This was the first novel I completed, and I completed it while doing a ten year bid in the New York State Correctional Prison Systems.Starting from Rikers Island minimum prison system I spent nine ...view moreThis was the first novel I completed, and I completed it while doing a ten year bid in the New York State Correctional Prison Systems.Starting from Rikers Island minimum prison system I spent nine years going from one maximum prison to another. It was a personal tour of Up State New York. Within those confined walls, I met quite a few criminal minds and heard a lot of war stories, so I had access to quite a lot of resource material, I also had friends in the law libraries so that I could authenticate and filter the lies from the truth.Most of this fiction is rooted in truth, although I took writers liberties to change things around and create characters from those existing truths. My education is not rooted in academics, I am an artist and designer by default, writing is just something I have always done, something I have always loved to do.view less