MEDIA .................................................................................................................. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Media@DarkStreetLit.com Strippers, sinners, believers and others: novel penetrates multiple markets LOS ANGELES - The dude on the corner with a novel called "Lit Up" sticking up out of his back pocket may be a drug dealer.  The money/product transactions, or "hand to hands," with nearly everyone who comes up to him are a dead giveaway.  But there may be hope for the dude's eventual redemption; since he began reading the terse novel that has the attractive young lady on the cover, he might be having second thoughts about selling his product to the little homies, and he may be growing tired of the street game and lifestyle. On the other side of the country, a young woman wearing a cross necklace is sitting in an airport lobby reading the same novel.  Maybe she is a recent high school graduate on her way to a Christian women's conference. 'Lit Up,' the 114 page novel by Clymel E. Thomas (Darkstreet Lit Publishing), contains no profanity or explicit sex, but the cautionary tale's depiction of street life is gritty enough to garner praise from real life inmates. Thomas believes the novel's power and influence is enhanced without the raunchiness that is common in novels that depict inner-city life. The nation's fourth-largest public school district apparently is a fan of the novel.  Miami-Dade County Public Schools placed "Lit Up" on its suggested reading list alongside books by Ernest Hemingway and Toni Morrison. If readers' correspondence to Darkstreet Lit is an indication, 'Lit Up,' like other novels on the school district's list, transcends color and cultures, despite having inner-city characters who engage in sin and search for redemption in a fictional landscape of brutality, murder and faith. Regardless of readers' ethnic and racial backgrounds it is the strippers and students, the prisoners and parishioners, the drug dealers and deacons who are the target audience for 'Lit Up,' according to the first-time author. The very name of the publisher's website captures the normally opposite audiences that "Lit Up" is after: www.bodyofsin.com/lostandfound. On the Net: www.DarkStreetLit.com www.BodyOfSin.com Miami-Dade County Public Schools reading list www.Amazon.com

COVER DOWNLOADS & EXCERPT ........................................................................................ Download cover image by right clicking and Save Picture As... Download cover image by right clicking and Save Picture As... Chapter 1 excerpt JONAH SAMPSON SITS low in the driver’s seat of his parked 1971 Chevrolet Caprice.  The rusted, dented old car does not call any undue attention to itself here; the barely running bucket blends effortlessly into the street chock-full of parked, raggedy cars, their interchangeable stream of occupants either smoking something or enjoying the company of a misled lady.  Jonah has neither the time nor the inclination for either right now.  His light-skinned face shows no emotion as the Sarene Police Department cruiser finally parks in front of the dilapidated hotel on the other side of the street.          He’s been waiting for two hours.          He turns his old N.W.A cassette tape up slightly.  MC Ren and Eazy-E spit their gangsta lyrics through the ripped, reverberating old speakers.  Jonah shakes his head slowly.          The 24-year-old brother adjusts his customized seat, sits up and spits out the window.  He watches across the street.  The sweaty, fat, Caucasian officer unlocks his shotgun from the black and white cruiser’s middle console and carries it with him up to the cracked gray sidewalk, stopping in front of a white girl, maybe 14 or 15 years old.          The sun reflects off the cruiser’s black hood.  The girl drops her cigarette on the ground and stomps it out with the toe of her high heel black leather boot, twitching her rail-thin teenage figure back and forth.          Sergeant Patrick W. Himes laughs, goes up to the security-barred window at the motel office and pushes some crumpled-up bills through the open metal slit.  The bills are quickly snatched up by the old black clerk on the other side of the dusty, cracking window being protected by rusty security bars.  The clerk’s eyes squint, she grins and pushes him a key and his change.          The white girl follows Himes up the outside stairs facing the street to the second level, and they walk inside the third room from the far northeast corner.  Jonah pulls out the sawed-off shotgun from underneath his seat... On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.  But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.'  For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners." -Matthew 9:12-13 (TNIV) Site and content © 2010 Darkstreet Lit.com™ / BodyofSin.com™ All rights reserved.

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