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Darine Davis

Darine Davis

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Born in Shreveport, LA, he has claimed Houston as his home. Darine shares a unique writing style that tends to pull the reader into his world. He tries to put the reader in the characters shoes by using everyday situations and events that the reader can truly relate to. His timely humor and sharp wit comprised with a thought provoking message tends to grasp the reader’s attention and keeps it throughout the entire book.

He is a Navy veteran and graduate of the University of Houston-Victoria with a BA in Information Systems. He resides in Fresno, TX with his wife of twelve years and two kids.

A Shadow in Yucatan

A Shadow in Yucatan

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<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>

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<font size="5"><span style="font-family:'Bodoni MT';">Phe Ink crew featured in Newbie Magazine!Check us out!<br /></span></font><span style="font-family:calibri, 'sans-serif';font-size:11pt;"><a href="http://www.newbiesmagazine.com/">http://www.newbiesmagazine.com</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:'Bodoni MT';"><font style="font-size:24px;">Darine Davis is featured as a new author on AAMBC www.aambcbooktours.blogspot.com</font></span><br /><h4>INTERVIEW W/NIA PRODUCTIONS:</h4> <p><a href="http://www.shhimreading.com/blog.html"><span style="font-size:14px;">http://www.shhimreading.com/blog.html</span></a></p> <h4></h4> <h2 style="text-align:left;"></h2> <p><font style="font-size:18px;">Author Spotlight:<br /></font><a href="http://www.pheink.com/"><font style="font-size:18px;">http://www.pheink.com/</font></a></p> <h1><font style="font-size:13px;"><br /><br />- Amazon.com</font></h1><font color="#000000" size="3"></font> <div class="crContent"> <p>Posted February 1, 2009, 2:12 AM EST: A good start to a promising future from a new face in the literary world of urban fiction. A bit racy in its content, Bayou Drama delivers just that, DRAMA! It's a quick, easy read that will not disappoint.</p> <div style="margin-bottom:.5em;"><font style="font-size:13px;"><span style="margin-left:-5px;"><img style="border-bottom:0px solid;border-left:0px solid;border-top:0px solid;border-right:0px solid;" alt="4.0 out of 5 stars" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/stars-4-0._V47081936_.gif" width="64" height="12" /></span><strong>Great first book, looking forward to the <br /><br />next</strong>  January 30, 2009</font> - Amazon.com<br /><br /><br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom:.5em;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top">By </td> <td><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A1QTPH75VORZ2P/ref=cm_cr_pr_pdp"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><font color="#004b91">M. <span style="white-space:nowrap;">Williams<img style="border-bottom:medium none;border-left:medium none;border-top:medium none;border-right:medium none;" class="custPopRight" alt="" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/x-locale/common/carrot._V47081519_.gif" /></span></font></span></a> (Houston, TX USA) -</td></tr></tbody></table></div> <p>For his first outing Darine Davis has captured moments of real life in its raw intensity. It doesn't take but a few pages before the reader is drawn in and invested in finding out the rest of the stories of his characters. I look forward to his next book. </p> <h2 style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:'bodoni mt', serif;"><font color="#000000" size="3"><font size="2">Anonymous</font> </font></span></h2> <div class="crContent"> <h3><font style="font-size:13px;">Bayou Drama has much drama!!!!</font></h3> <h4><img style="border-bottom:0px solid;border-left:0px solid;border-top:0px solid;border-right:0px solid;" alt="" src="http://images.barnesandnoble.com/presources/community/images/cust4.gif" /> Reader Rating - Amazon.com</h4> <p>Posted January 5, 2009, 11:06 PM EST: This is a truely different and refreshing change in writing style. His country based humor really had me laughing. A definite page turner. Although the book is short (124 pgs) it is great for a weekend read. The stories vary in situation and puts you in the characters shoes to answer the question &quot;What would I do in this situation?&quot; An erotic but page turning book. It will have you laughing one minute and crying the next. A must read.</p></div></div>