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I am so pleased to announce the re-launch of the official MadboEnterprises website. The redesign was completed by our friends at the ECMGroups firm.

I’ve anticipated a new design for quite some time and now that the opportunity has not only presented itself, but is here? Words cannot express how excited I am!!!

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The site outlines a number of highlights from tour dates and appearances to book launches and media.
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I first reached out to a book vendor named Pargo who sells books on 149th street and Third avenue here in the Bronx. Not sure on how I would be received, I mustered up the guts to approach Pargo and ask if I can one day promote my book with and do a book signing. Pargo welcomed me with opened arms and set me up with a book signing the following weekend. We discussed payment; which in my opinion was fair and just, and we were in business

The day I was out there with Pargo on 149th & Third Ave., I was a bit apprehensive about approaching shoppers passing by. Eventually I said to myself “If you’re going to promote your book, then get the molassess out my ass and get to hustling!” I started handing out my bookmarks and copies of my Chapter 18 excerpt and readers were stopping at my table. Avid readers started purchasing The Mouse That Roared and by the end of day I had sold 27 copies with Pargo the 149th Street book vendor.

 After my first encounter of hustling my book with a street vendor, I decided to tap into the area that is well respected in the world of African American urban literature…Harlem U.S.A.

I headed to Harlem New York to see if I can sell my book with some of the top-notch vendors on the streets. I met a vendor named Henry who is located right on 125th Street. Again being new to this game I was apprehensive about approaching him. Eventually I did and again I wasted too much concern over how I would be perceived. Henry told me to get my table and set up right next to him. I was excited about selling my book on the streets of Harlem. That day I sold 36 copies of The Mouse That Roared. I had avid readers stopping at my table, who purchased the book prior to who had nothing but great things to say about my book. It was a wonderful feeling to hear that readers enjoyed my book.

I also hooked up with a book vendor who happened to live right in my neighbohood. We met serendiputously through my youngest son’s friend. Nelson is a book vendor who sell books in the Bruckner Mall here in the Bronx. Quickly after we met I did a book signing with him. I sold over 30 copies on my first day with Nelson.

I was compelled to write this article about street book vendors as I recognize their importance to marketing and promoting authors and their work. Street book vendors has played a major role in the marketing and promotion of authors of African American/Urban literature. I believe my connection to street vendors has been one of the best moves I made in marketing and promoting The Mouse That Roared.
 

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Author Dwayne Murray, Sr., a native of the Bronx, New York, grew up writing short stories, skits and screenplays. After studying at Florida State University, he returned to New York and became a master electrician. Never one to abandon his dreams of penning thought provoking novels, Dwayne self published his first book in 2005 involving real characters.

Dwayne Murray, Sr. (The Mouse That Roared and 2007 USA Best Book Award finalist for the novel Whatever It Takes) returns with this third novel that guarantees to keep his readers guessing, anticipating, and cautiously turning one page at a time while they sit on the edge of their seats or beds
wondering what will prevail: Evil or Good.

Dwayne Murray, Sr. is the self published writer of the suspense novels The Mouse That Roared (released 2006), Whatever It Takes (released 2007) and the upcoming Like a Good Neighbor (2008). Murray’s writing style allows him to tap into his vivid and graphic imagination to set forth his novels that make readers admire, cheer, applaud, and even curse its characters. He methodically provokes the reader to ask themselves: Is there really any such thing as normal? And if there is, is being dysfunctional very much a part of it?

Murray’s true love is writing and has kept him in overdrive at present through the next year and a half. While he plans to release another novel this year, he’s planning to release The Underbelly Chronicles from 2009-2010. These will be a total of 10 books.

He has other novels in their embryonic stages, and he also plans to indulge in screenplay writing. Murray simply wishes his book get into the hands of people who appreciate and love an excellent suspense thriller. Murray hopes readers will embrace his work and will continue to add them to their collection of fiction thrillers.