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LOVOLUTION is not my first novel. In 1983, when I moved to New York City to get into the motion picture business, I also began researching my family tree. I drove my mother up the east cost to her maternal place of origin, Rhode Island, talking with her all the way about her pre marriage life. The only tangible result of that trip is the fictionalized manuscript for the novel A MOTHER’S STORY. It starts with Aslean, a teenage girl living in Washington DC with her paternal grandmother after her own parents passed or went missing. It ends with Mrs. Aslean Fredricks, now a well known artist, in court watching as her first born son is locked in jail. I took the name Aslean from one of my mother’s poem, “7th Grade Algebra,” available on amazon.com and elsewhere in SHAGGY BANKS, by Julia Watson Barbour.
When I started writing LOVOLUTION in 2004, its name was “The Mathematics of Love”. I had always had trouble understanding how love worked and figuring out the why’s and ways of women was difficult for me. My goal was to codify a precise way of approaching this problem. A concomitant issue for me was why groups of people were easily aroused to be mean to other groups of people. These two questions are combined and addressed in the book LOVOLUTION.