Author Corey Aaron Burkes

Shortly after the release of the first novel, Butta’ and the Tower of Bling, I produced a podcast/audio book/audio drama version of the novel with a full cast of talented voices.            From left to right … Naomi Lavette, Adair Lawrence, Kim Cantey-Davis, Santino Shepherd, Kitty, Tony Johnson, Loretta Pinkney, Ben Sims and Sanedria Potter. The novel is broken up into a multi-part series, currently at episode 4. All parts have been recorded in 2008, and only until recently will the...Read Full Story

Desktopepics needed a singular image that personafied me (the owner/creator) and everything Desktopepics stood for creatively. It needed to be original, different and with feeling. A.J Dewey of Fabulatory.com designed the following image and I LOVE IT! Burkes logo design: The Fabulatory, LLC This logo will identify the Desktopepics/Burkes brand of storytelling at the bottom spine of every book forthcoming, beginning with the July release of Sleight of Death. Thank you A.J. Dewey for such a...Read Full Story

My people … Black people … give me the hardest time out of any race I’ve come across. I can say this easily being Black (African-American, whatever…) without guilt and prejudice behind that statement. This is something I’ve felt living in New York and, now that I’m in Georgia, I can say it’s even worse here where the concentration of African-Americans (non-Jamaican, Haitian, Nigerian, etc.) residents may be higher. All it takes is for me to open my mouth and the divide between my race and I...Read Full Story

True Question : How do you come up with your story ideas so often? I gave a class on creative writing awhile back and advised students that coming up with story ideas, like anything else, is like building a muscle. I’ve been coming up with stories since I was five years old, and currently average 15-20 concepts a week. Keep this in mind, they may not be GOOD 15-20 ideas, the point is the mind is now running in automatic; able to see things, cross-reference concepts and mix and match ideas...Read Full Story

Awhile back, I wrote a short erotic story to describe to a woman my complaint with current trends in erotica. Works by Zane and her contemporaries are very talented, keeping the industry well satisfied, pun intended. However, when you have read one, you’ve read them all. Generally speaking, the stories often surround themselves around one or two characters, female protagonists, either repressed, frigid or in some sort of dramatic need to be released. She meets the person who will change her...Read Full Story