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Marsha Lewis’ writing career began on the hallway walls of her mother’s section 8 apartment, in a lily-white ghetto. Reveling in her newfound ability to write, she decided that a red crayon was the right tool to make her proud. Her mother was so furious, she gave her a can of cleanser, a sponge, and made her scrub the letters away. This was the start of the controversial moments that would pepper Marsha’s writing life.

Despite being pressured by her mother to study medicine and become the first doctor in the family, Lewis desires were rooted in the written word. She spent all her spare time writing songs, poems and stories. In 1993, she met Betty Shabazz at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, and she encouraged Lewis to follow her dreams. Shortly following, Lewis wrote her first novella, Gravel, Paper and Glass, and began an endless array of personal writing projects, fine-tuning her craft.

In 2003, Marsha finished penning a book entitled, “G-Spot Chronicles”, which immediately put her on the map with book readers and filmmakers, all before the book would see a printing press. For this book, her penname is FACESITTER. While publishers and agents were hesitant to touch the book, filmmakers Rodney Parnther and Roderick Giles of Clarendon Entertainment, asked her if they could produce films for the first two chapters. Marsha gladly accepted, which made her the first writer in history, to have short films or otherwise, created from an unpublished book. G-Spot Chronicles can be reviewed and purchased at iUniverse.com.

By 2005, one of the films Clarendon Entertainment produced, The Marriage Counselor was competing in the 2005 Urban World Film Festival. Both films adapted from the book are currently available for purchase, as part of a new incentive called New Black Media (http://www.urbanslam.com).

Now a wife and mother of two, Lewis not only continues to write books and attempt to collaborate with filmmakers to make films and/or cable/satellite network programming. Lewis also composes music, to coincide with her material. The soundtrack for “G-Spot Chronicles” is available on iTunes). She aspires to become the founder of her own multimedia company now in development, Koné Productions.

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