June Miller
@junemiller
About
June is the published author of, This Game Has No Loyalty,an urban street fiction novel depicting real life on the streets and the loverelationships within those parameters.
His love of writing was first discovered in public schoolwhere he dazzled teachers with his creative short stories and intriguing poems.His writing was officially acknowledged locally when one of his stories wasfeatured in his class yearbook.
As June reached his teenage years, he abandoned his love ofwriting for the dangerous life on the streets of Brooklyn. Although he waseducated, the excitement of the street life interested him and he quickly tookpart in petty crimes, which soon elevated into the introduction to the infamousdrug trade where he became a major distributor of illegal drugs out of state.During his illicit activities he was apprehended and convicted then laterincarcerated. Once released on parole, he reclaimed his spot in the drug tradeand continued trafficking illegal drugs, the threat of violating parole afleeting thought. His youth and inexperience in life fueled his desire forillegal tender without the thought or regret of contributing to the destructionof his community.
As time passed all of his relationships, social, personaland romantic, became strained due to the nature of his business. His lifelacked stability despite the illusion of financial comfort. He was responsiblefor himself so there was never any balance in his life until the birth of hisfirst daughter, who changed the way he viewed life…her life. June decided tomake changes in his life and immediately enrolled into college where herediscovered his love of writing, showcasing his literary abilities that wererecognized by his English professors.
While pursuing his degree, tragedy struck and one of hisclosest friends was brutally murdered. Overcome by anger and revenge hechanneled his emotions into something that came to him naturally, he wrote thestory. It didn’t heal the wound to his heart but was therapeutic in helping himexpress feelings no one knew about. The story was buried along with hisfeelings for 10 years until one day he came across it after coming from afuneral for yet another fallen youth to the same game he had given up. At thatmoment he decided to write a story, a true to life account of what happens inthe streets with hopes of reaching the youth by delivering vivid accounts ofthe pitfalls of the street life that is not taught to them and at the sametime, promote literacy in these communities because it’s the gateway tolearning and sparking mental creativity.
June began penning his novel This Game Has No Loyalty andincorporated his own experiences into his writing to produce the “realness” hisstory needed to capture his audience.
June is also the author of This Game Has No Loyalty II –Hustle for Life and This Game Has No Loyalty III – Love is Pain published byFourShadough Publishing, a book publishing company that is rooted in thepromotion of literacy in urban neighborhoods here and abroad.
