A lightness of being

Lloyd G Francis reads from his debut novel From Rum To Roots, while the jazz band plays Duke Ellington.

The book release party for my debut novel From Rum To Roots was a smashing success last night. The only technical difficulty was that we could not get a connection for our live stream broadcast, but next time we hope to have the bugs worked out.

NEVERTHELESSeveryone had a great time. I read from two selections and the band led by Top Cat, an institution on the lower Haight, accompanied me as I read a scene from 1945 in Kingston Jamaica in a nightclub known as The Glass Bucket. The Glass Bucket was a well known club during the thirties and forties. It was a place where Jamaicans could go to have a drink, shoot the breeze, or try to meet someone special.

ALLthe locations in From Rum To Roots are real, from Beeston Street and Matthews Lane, (pronounced “matches”) that you can visit, from Kingston Jamaica, to Haight Ashbury in foggy San Francisco.

THERE is two events that are approaching. One, is we will be posting on Goodreads a three and one third chapter excerpt that will be downloadable to your kindle, or your e-reader of choice. The second event is going to be a book giveaway on Goodreads that will coincide with the launch of the e-book. By September 1, 2013 we hope that From Rum To Roots will be available in all formats.