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David Somerfleck
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America
Genres: Commercial Fiction, Self-Help/Personal Development, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, General Nonfiction, General Fiction, Advice & How To, Other Poetry, Horror, Business, Dystopian, Erotica, Magical Realism, Love Poetry, Nature Poetry, Political / Social Commentary Poetry, Literary Fiction, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Speculative Fiction
David Somerfleck is an award-winning speculative fiction author, poet, and retired digital marketing executive based in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He transitioned into writing full-time after a diverse 25-year career spanning business consultancy, journalism, and political communications.
Literary Work
• Speculative Fiction: He wrote the dystopian science fiction novel One Grain of Sand, which serves as Book One in his Shards of a Shattered Sky trilogy and won the Literary Titan Book Award, and earned a positive review from the literary standard-bearer in reviews Kirkus Reviews.
• Poetry: He has authored several poetry collections, including Join the Flock & Other Poems, Nothing to Do But Stay & Other Poems, and Love Her Blind and Other Poems.
• Business Writing: He published the instructional workbook The Road to Digital Marketing Profits.
• His books are sold globally and carried by most libraries in the United States in either print or digital formats.
• David is a former freelance commercial copywriter, editor, community newspaper beat reporter, and lifestyle magazine reporter.
Marketing & Professional Background
• Agency Leadership: He is a newly retired digital marketing executive who ran his own digital marketing agency and spent over two decades as a project manager and copywriter for multi-million dollar brands.
• Small Business Mentorship: For roughly 10 years, he served as a Certified Small Business Mentor through the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), advising hundreds of startups and non-profit organizations on growth. David also served a startup mentor for the Catch a Fire and Ureeka nonprofits.
• Public Speaking & Training: He has hosted workshops on technology and marketing for institutions like The WordPress Foundation, Microsoft, and Johnson & Wales University.
• Civic & Political Roles: He was trained in political campaign messaging by a consortium including the Center for Progressive Leadership and the Colorado Board of Education, later advising six political campaigns and founding a mediation non-profit.
You can track his upcoming releases, podcast episodes, and speaking appearances directly through his official website, Boldly Blue.
For a list of David's links, please visit Bookish.Blue.
To schedule an interview, please visit Interview.Blue.
David Somerfleck's books
Love Her Blind & Other Poems
Within these pages, ember-ghosts entwine, And long, black rivers shine like tarred-out wine. Sunflowers hold gold; winter still will bite, Icicle tears turn breath to brittle night. Here love is iron, barbed, a rusted key; It bites, then brightens, binding you to me. A hammer-fist on glass makes spidered pain new, And memory rains, then dries to ash-streaked stain. Rocking chairs, once meant to soothe, turn to dread now; They swing like storms above a child's cold head. Birdsong with beeps; crows counsel, sharp and rough; They ask what you will bear, and what’s enough for you. Roots drink red blood; the silent forests pray; A grandfather-god lifts stars like lambent clay. A tall man waits there; streetlights blink and fade; The searing needle steers your will through shade. These poems are matchflames in the midnight room; They stitch your heart with light, and loosen doom. Read “Love Her Blind;”...
The Road to Digital Marketing Profits
"The Road to Digital Marketing Profits" is a workbook specifically meant to guide the new business owner, the entrepreneur, or small business owner who is simply not getting the results they wanted through the use of digital marketing - to where they want and need to be. The workbook contains provocative exercises that will make you look at your business from the perspective of a potential investor, from the perspective of a competitor, and certainly from the perspective of an experienced digital marketing project manager ready to ignite growth on behalf of your business. The exercises will help you get clear on why you're doing what you're doing, who you should be serving ideally, what services to offer, and how to accelerate past competitors along the road. Statistically, the overwhelming majority of small business owners struggle with digital marketing. They can often build DIY template generator websites that fail to...
My Grandfather's God and Other Poems
A collection of modern, contemporary poetry.
Nothing to Do but Stay and Other Poems
A collection of contemporary, modern poetry.
Join the Flock & Other Poems
Contemporary poetry for modern readers touching on subjects ranging from love, passion, and loss to friendship, betrayal and potential redemption.
One Grain of Sand - Shards of a Shattered Sky 1
"...riveting and frighteningly plausible.” — Kirkus Reviews “…supremely intense and fantastically imaginative…” — Readers’ Favorite "...conveys sensations that most stories rush past." - Literary Titan Welcome to the United States of 2096. Freedom is a dream you fight for on television. Dissent earns you a trip to an internment camp, a reprogramming ward, or a disappearance so quiet your family forgets you walked the earth. And the boot on your throat has a flag stitched into the leather. They made it legal to hunt minority citizens on weekends. They turned healthcare into a game show. They spliced the human genome until it wept strange, shunned tribes onto the frayed edges of the republic. Noah Harpster doesn’t care about any of it. Three-time loser and petty thief—he’s spent his whole life perfecting the art of not mattering; staying small, quite, and head down. Then he meets Parlisse. She’s a beautiful, biracial...