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About Robert Nelson
Robert Nelson was born and raised in Garner, North Carolina where he earned the connections and street credibility needed to bring a sense of authenticity to his work. Consequentially, this lead to his stay in the luxurious NC-DOC where through a lot of retrospection he developed a strategy to defeat what he had become. Through the guidance of the Aryan Brotherhood and the variety of other hardened criminals he played cards with he focused his energy into developing his skills as a writer to keep the youth from making the same mistakes he did. If he can open just one pair of eyes through his writing, everything he’s put into these pages would have paid off.
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My story begins like most others who have a flair for the dramatic and imaginary. As a child I feel I spent more time locked away inside my head then I spent in the real world. With the help of a few select writers a 4-5th grader can appreciate; I began to harvest their settings and characters for my own side-stories and alternate-alternate universes if you get my drift. Then I began to outsmart my own common sensibilities which lead to the true spark that catalyzed my career as a writer.
In late 2008 I landed myself a stay in the ever-so-luxurious NC Department of Corrections. Amongst the chaos, stress and angst of Prison Life, I dove into the pages of my various notebooks as a way to vent. I started with poetry and particular song lyrics that I scribbled according to the rhythms bouncing around inside my noggin. I sent most of it home and my family and friends seemed impressed enough to start passing it around. Surprisingly, this accidentally developed my first inner ripples of an actual ring of fans.
I continued the best I could despite the interruptions of the Correctional Staff I continued to write as vigorously and as controversially as possible. See, C.O.’s have a free range policy on routinely trashing anything, literature or otherwise, that they might deem harmful to an inmate or other inmates. Which means, after I let the wrong people glance over my work my cell was invaded and all the notes and scribbles any other author concur as essential were confiscated. This happened repeatedly over the next 14 months. Write, trash, write, trash, until eventually I knew the story so well that I could commit it to memory until I could transfer to a camp more conducive to my creative processes.
After which, I cranked out the rough draft of Real Eyez Realize Real Liez in a blissful 31 day spree. Of course I was criticized by my peers and my Spades partners for sitting stone still hovering over a table amidst the monotonous whirlwind daily prison activities. As the pens drained and pages turned I filled my notebooks until my release in 2010. Over the next year I worked 11 hours a day, went to school for 4 hours every night, fell in love, partied like a madman, and sat hovering over my illuminated keyboard until the first installment of the Real Eyez Realize Real Liez Trilogy was birthed and went up for grabs on Amazon.com. Createspace.com and Barnes&Noble.com.
The grabbing appeal of Real Eyez Realize Real Liez is not only the struggle and strife I went through to bring it out of the fences to the real world, but the lessons I learned during the writing itself. Through my tutelage underneath the Aryan Brotherhood and the thousands of hours of eavesdropped Gang Knowledge I absorbed; I entered Real Eyez into a state of realism unheard of in modern day Urban Literature. With my pen, I intend to grab the reader by the scruff and bash their face into the ugliness of the modern day underworld. Then through the tribulation and transformation of my characters, Real Eyez actually teaches the reader HOW to defeat the spread of the Gangsta Lifestyle into Suburban America. The lessons are there; all the while shrouded in a veil of gunfights, conspiracy, blood money and the cocky smart-ass humor I’m so infamous for.
Everybody I’ve let read Real Eyez hasn’t put been able to put it down. As though the pages are rubber cemented to their fingers. I wrote Real Eyez Realize Real Liez as the Urban Book to end all Urban Books. In fact, it was written to undo the Urban Literature universe, and time will
