Yusuf Blanton

YUSUF BLANTON

Yusuf Blanton architects visceral neon-noir from the graveyard shifts of North Carolina. A former rapper who spit bars under the moniker J. Blanton—leaving behind underground cuts like "Turn It Up (ft. Dustie Nix)"—he ultimately traded the mic for a typewriter. A spiritual successor to the unapologetic grit of Charles Bukowski, Michelle Tea, and Henry Miller, he now constructs the dark, character-driven theater of the Freedom Boulevard universe.

Beyond his neon-soaked thrillers, Blanton is the author of The Agonizing Road to Self and the underground classic The Shards of Serenity (Ishmael Press, 2015). He specializes in dissecting systemic rot, the brutal cost of survival, and the beautiful, bloody art of claiming your own crown in a godless city.

Davina Schulz

DAVINA SCHULZ

Davina Schulz writes thrillers for people who know the game is rigged.

Raised in Bixby, Tennessee—a dying Appalachian coal town where the local church preached salvation on Sunday and processed evictions on Monday—she learned early on that polite society is often just a well-funded racket. Before turning to fiction, she survived the secular grind as a corporate debt collector. Spending her days threatening financial ruin on behalf of a faceless conglomerate gave her a surgical, deadpan understanding of transactional leverage and how late-stage capitalism actually operates.

Heavily influenced by the Southern Gothic dread of Flannery O'Connor and the psychological razor-wire of Gillian Flynn, her debut novel, St. Salvation, was sparked by watching the financial scandals of televangelists and asking a terrifying question: what if the grift wasn't just a byproduct of corruption, but a perfectly designed system?

Davina currently operates entirely off the grid. She does not own a smartphone and categorically refuses to engage with social media. She does not have a newsletter, she will not tweet at you, and she absolutely does not want to join your local book club. She just wants you to read the book.

THE ARCHIVES

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St. Salvation

"Salvation is a subscription service. And the late fees are deadly."

Dahlia Bordeaux is surviving at the absolute bottom of the secular food chain, trading her body for a rent reduction in a cramped Pennsylvania condo. But when her estranged mother drops dead of a massive coronary at a heavily guarded megachurch compound, Dahlia is dragged back to the suffocating Alabama heat to settle the earthly debts before the church forecloses on her family home.

She quickly discovers St. Salvation isn’t just a church—it’s a tax-exempt corporate cartel controlling commercial real estate, local police, and a razor-wired agricultural plantation. Worse, Dahlia realizes her childhood friend, Victoria, is trapped inside the compound, reduced to a traumatized, indentured farmhand.

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Freedom Boulevard

"Welcome to Cordova. The neon is cheap, the rent is weekly, and the shadows will eat you alive."

Andy Blackwell is a bisexual hip-hop artist running from Maryland to the neon lights of the West. Sakeenah Bailey is a bipolar, trans Muslima writer fleeing conservative Connecticut. Both drown in the legalized haze and criminal underworld of Cordova.

"A slow-motion autopsy of a city built to consume the vulnerable." — Davina Schulz
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Vol 2: Sakeenah's Justice

"In the neon desert of Cordova, survival isn't a right. It’s a heist."

Excommunicated and cast into the gutters, Sakeenah Bailey lands in the crosshairs of Tony Vee, the drug-fueled King of Cordova's flesh empire. But Sakeenah is a poet with a switchblade.

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Vol 3: Cordova's Inferno

"The only thing more dangerous than building a neon empire is hiring the absolute idiots required to run it."

Tony Vee is in a federal cage, and Vivienne "The Countess" Belfray's hostile takeover is suffocating under the spectacular incompetence of her own syndicate.

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Vol 4: Cultic Love

"The ashes were supposed to stay cold, but the desert breeds a new kind of monster."

Sakeenah and Justice built a sanctuary out of stolen cartel cash, escaping the neon rot of the West End. But the ledgers of Cordova are demanding a final payment.

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