Dreams: Listen To Your Heart

RANDY'S TV SCRIPTS - CHILDREN'S SERIES
1. Harry's Field (May 2014, Registered with Writers Guild of America, East, Reg#R30871)
2. Time Out Time In (May 2014, Registered with WGA, East)

To anyone out there who has put aside their passion and/or lifelong dreams, please do yourself a favor and start taking baby steps toward it right now! For years I'd worked in restaurants, factories, ect. and it took me a long time to realize that I had to make some changes. Now I only do what my heart tells me to do and I urge you to do the same.

RANDY'S TV SCRIPTS - CHILDREN'S SERIES
1. Harry's Field (May 2014, Registered with Writers Guild of America, East, Reg#R30871)
2. Time Out Time In (May 2014, Registered with WGA, East)

RCstories' Children's TV Series

HARRY'S FIELD is an animated, children's fantasy TV series. The series centers around a magical flying school bus named Eagle Wing, which transports kids from urban areas to an enchanted, colorful place called Harry's Field, where they learn about nature and our environment from a variety of jovial, talking animals and plants. TIME OUT TIME IN is another very lively and engaging animated, children's fantasy TV series created by Randolph Randy Camp. In a very entertaining and colorful manner (without being preachy), the series encourages young kids to use their imagination while simultaneously teaching them about life's virtues, such as the importance of being polite and kind to others. All works registered with the Writers Guild of America, East. Learn more at http://www.goodreads.com/randolphcamp

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Wet Matches: A Novel" is an inspiring and uplifting story about five homeless 'throwaway' teens (all HIV positive) getting a second chance at a better life when a young couple on a high school reunion trip rescues them and takes them on a cross-country journey to their new home in sunny California. 'Wet Matches' is about friendships, and it asks the question, "How far would you go for a friend?" Fifteen years of separation didn't stop Crystal from being there for Jalan. What Crystal did for Jalan will inspire us all to take a closer look at our own relationships and friendships...Could you still laugh knowing that death was possibly lurking around the corner? Meet five free-spirited teens: Shelly, Robbie, Josie, Micky and Cole, who will inspire you to enjoy every second of your life. Shelly is pregnant. Robbie plays guitar. Josie's a little confused. Micky likes cars. Cole's a little shy. Some people called them useless. They were told to get out of town. Some people said that they were about as good as wet matches...but Jalan, Crystal and Jack thought otherwise. If you had ever been ridiculed, bullied, mocked...or if someone had ever made you feel like you was good for nothing or worthless then Randolph Randy Camp's award-winning 'Wet Matches: A Novel' is a story for you. Without being preachy-but yet-entertaining, 'Wet Matches' takes a fresh contemporary look at America's ever-increasing youth runaway and teen homeless problems. 'WET MATCHES' is a Quarter-Finals Winner of The Writers Network 14th Annual Screenplay and Fiction Competition.

NEW K.A.N.S.A.S.

Dissatisfied with the way the adults are running the nation, a well-organized, underground society of intelligent kids demand the right to vote and to be given their own statehood or else. (The kids believe that voting should be based upon a person’s IQ, not their age.
Synopsis: ‘NEW K.A.N.S.A.S.’ (Kids’ Alliance National Society And Sanctuary): Discouraged with his lack of ability to control his own destiny fueled by his parents’ divorce and already fed up with the way the adults are running the country, a twelve year old boy forms a society to give children the Right to Vote and attempts to establish their own State in which to do it. All hell breaks when the U.S. Government starts to hunt down the leader and his underground network. In the meantime, the secretive children’s society is growing to an unbelievable size and there’s no stopping them now! TAGLINE: “Don’t underestimate the power of kids”
Although I’d originally wrote ‘NEW K.A.N.S.A.S.’ as a live action feature, it could also work as an ANIMATED feature-length movie as well. (The ‘Kansas’ in NEW K.A.N.S.A.S. stands for Kids’ Alliance National Society And Sanctuary)
U.S. Copyright: PAu002651984 (Original Screenplay Draft/ Author: Randolph Camp)
Learn more at AUTHORS DEN http://www.authorsden.com/randolphrcamp and WRITERS NET http://www.writers.net/writers/81919

Randy Camp Receives DAV Certificate of Appreciation

Randy Camp was honored on February 11, 2013 with a CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION from the DAV, Disabled American Veterans organization, for creating the positive character Lamar Woods in his 2012 Southern noir novel FALSE DANDELIONS.
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The College Textbooks Scam, The Great American Rip-Off

THE COLLEGE TEXTBOOKS SCAM, THE GREAT AMERICAN RIP-OFF: Have you ever experienced or witnessed something that looked or felt so wrong that you just had to stop and do something about it? Well, I’m going through one of those moments right now. If you have loved ones or friends currently attending or will be attending college in the near future, take a moment to read this bulletin. I’m a middle-age man going back to school. I haven’t set foot on a college campus since 1981. Although a bit apprehensive, I was pumped up when I received my acceptance letter from Erie Community College (ECC) in Buffalo, New York. And then, hard reality hit me right smack in the face! I was in utter shock when I saw the price tags on my required textbooks. Baffled, I put on my journalist hat and began to dig. What I uncovered made me realize that this selling college textbooks thing is a shady racket. It’s the ultimate white collar rip-off scheme smoothly orchestrated by the Follett Corporation. I used to think that Bernie Madoff was America’s greatest swindler. Gee, was I ever wrong. In my opinion now, the Follett Corporation is the biggest winner in the hustlers’ game. Bernie Madoff was pulling off his ponzi scheme for over 20 years, but the evolving Follett Corporation has been publishing, distributing and selling college textbooks since 1925 and taking American college students for a ride ever since. The Follett Corporation , based in River Grove, Illinois, has become the nation’s largest supplier of college textbooks. On the Forbes’ list of top private companies, it has over 1,600 bookstores and produces more than $2.7 billion in annual revenue. Hidden behind the official name ‘Auxiliary Services Corporation of Erie Community College’ is the Follett Corporation. By strategically placing itself on campus, the Follett Corporation is at an economic advantage against any competing bookstores, off campus or online. When ECC and other colleges across America willingly make the giant Follett Corporation a bedfellow they are inviting potential murky activities. After meeting certain criteria, low-income students may qualify for tuition assistance, such as TAP and PELL grants from the state and federal government. When the student is approved for the TAP and PELL grants, the on campus college bookstore has its doors open, cash register plugged in and cashier readily standing with a big cheerful grin. In some circles this would be considered a kickback, especially when a typical student is paying an average of $600 on books per semester. Shrewdly positioning itself as the official on campus bookstore, the Follett Corporation has become a monopoly. Can you imagine the amount of a telephone bill today if the government hadn’t stepped in and force ‘Ma Bell’ to break up in 1984? Would we have Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon today if Ma Bell had continued to monopolize the telephone market? ECC and colleges throughout the nation need to rethink the way they acquire textbooks for their students. Inviting more bookstores on campus could lower the outrageous price of textbooks. For my grandkids’ sake, I hope that one day college textbooks are sold for less than $60 per copy. In contrast, one of my required textbooks currently has a price tag of $164! Being away from school for years, I initially thought that the most daunting thing about returning to the modern day classroom was facing today’s techno-savvy world of touch-screen computers and other fancy gadgetry. Ironically, it was the old-fashioned two-pound textbook that hit me the hardest. Not qualifying for any special grants or book scholarships, I had to make a decision of whether or not to use my own money to purchase the required textbooks for the Spring 2013 semester from the Follett bookstore on campus. I refuse to feed the monopoly beast. I’ve chosen not to buy a single textbook from the Follett Corporation. Instead, I spend a lot of time in the college library, where most required textbooks are available, although on a limited basis. The skills of being creative and resourceful I’d acquired as a poor country boy in Virginia and in the military will be put into play now as I try my best to navigate through my freshman year without my own books. We must stop the Follett Corporation from doing a number on college students in America. My aim in writing this bulletin is to spread the truth and let the truth do its job. – RANDOLPH RANDY CAMP, February 2013.  MORE AT https://www.amazon.com/author/randolphcamp

The Lord Loves Everybody, Even WET MATCHES

AUTHOR VISITS CNA STUDENTS AT EAST HIGH

 

 On Monday, December 16th, author Randolph Randy Camp met with the sophomore Certified Nursing Assistant students from East High to discuss one of his novels, Wet Matches, that the students read. The students relished the opportunity to actually meet and discuss his work.

Wet Matches is a metaphoric story loaded with highly engaging characters who consistently demonstrate empathy as they mature and move beyond severe barriers in their life to become healed contributors to society.  Mr. Camp shared his personal story of growing up in the  segregated South and how his experience, and a song that he wrote as a teenager, became the plot of his book. Students were spellbound as he discussed the process of writing and publishing a book.
Mr. Camp recently had his third book, Twenty-nine Dimes, a Love Story, published, and his sequel to Wet Matches is in the final editing stages. - (Mr. Tim Wagner, Instructor-Teacher)

 

 

 

"See, that’s the good thing about The Lord. He don’t care what color your hair is or where you put your jewelry. He loves everybody.” (Quote from WET MATCHES A NOVEL, the prize-winning tale about five homeless teenagers, all HIV positive, getting a second chance at a better life when a California couple takes them in)

 

Wet Matches: A Novel" is an inspiring and uplifting story about five homeless 'throwaway' teens (all HIV positive) getting a second chance at a better life when a young couple on a high school reunion trip rescues them and takes them on a cross-country journey to their new home in sunny California. 'Wet Matches' is about friendships, and it asks the question, "How far would you go for a friend?" Fifteen years of separation didn't stop Crystal from being there for Jalan. What Crystal did for Jalan will inspire us all to take a closer look at our own relationships and friendships...Could you still laugh knowing that death was possibly lurking around the corner? Meet five free-spirited teens: Shelly, Robbie, Josie, Micky and Cole, who will inspire you to enjoy every second of your life. Shelly is pregnant. Robbie plays guitar. Josie's a little confused. Micky likes cars. Cole's a little shy. Some people called them useless. They were told to get out of town. Some people said that they were about as good as wet matches...but Jalan, Crystal and Jack thought otherwise. If you had ever been ridiculed, bullied, mocked...or if someone had ever made you feel like you was good for nothing or worthless then Randolph Randy Camp's award-winning 'Wet Matches: A Novel' is a story for you. Without being preachy-but yet-entertaining, 'Wet Matches' takes a fresh contemporary look at America's ever-increasing youth runaway and teen homeless problems. 'WET MATCHES' is a Quarter-Finals Winner of The Writers Network 14th Annual Screenplay and Fiction Competition.

 

 

 

                                                            *Learn more at  https://www.amazon.com/author/randolphcamp

Jesse and LaBrea: An Interracial Love Story From False Dandelions

Jesse, the up and coming country star, has dreams of Nashville. In their small rural County of Spotsylvania, Virginia, Jesse falls head over heels in love with a young ebony princess named LaBrea, and who also happens to be the Sheriff's daughter. This is just one of the juicy stories within Randolph Randy Camp's contemporary Southern noir crime novel FALSE DANDELIONS. Here are samples and little excerpts from the novel:

Exiting the bus is Jesse Raine and LaBrea Woods. Sweethearts since last summer, the interracial couple raise a few eyebrows around the county. Jesse stands tall wearing a confident, big country smile. LaBrea's flawless brown skin and curvaceous body, wrapped tightly in stylish jeans, turns all the boys' heads. LaBrea blushes. Nonchalantly, Jesse continues to spread his cowboy grin. LaBrea bends over to pluck a white, lollipop head of tiny weightless spheres then playfully blows them off the flower head. The air is filled with a white cloud of floating dandelion wishes. Roland, a Black boy who has been trying to get LaBrea's attention, shifts his eyes on her curvy backside as Jesse's white hand gently slides into his girlfriend's back pocket. Consumed with jealousy, Roland sighs then turns up his lip in distaste.     

  
Learn more at https://www.amazon.com/author/randolphcamp