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Donovin Freeman
Donovin Freeman (born January 18th 1970) in Charleston, South Carolina. Donovin is an American author, screenwriter, director, and producer.

Freeman began his writing career in 1993 when at the mere age of 23 he wrote his first novel HOME. Freeman received his first book deal in 1996 when Canadian Publisher Commonwealth Publications agreed to publish HOME. Jubilant Freeman thought his writing career was about to take off. Unfortunately for him Commonwealth went out of business before Freeman's novel hit the shelves. Freeman said his agents The Deering Literary agency is the main culprit behind him agreeing to the deal with Commonwealth. "They told me this was a great deal and not knowing the business as well as I should have back then I took their word for it. The real red flag was when they offered me a book deal for a screenplay I wrote and wanted me to pay them $5000 to publish it. People like this who prey on people's hard work, hopes, and dreams should go straight to hell."

After several years of rejection letters from agents and publishers Freeman decided to publish his novel through Iuniverse a print on demand company. It has had moderate success but HOME is still like the tree falling in the forest when no one is around its a great novel that has not been not found its way into the mainstream. Like Donovin says: "HOME is the greatest novel never read." HOME is now also available on Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook.

Below is a small synopsis of HOME: Based on a true story Home is a sensitive and dramatic novel about one family’s quest for wholeness. Spanning three decades it is a novel that deals with some hard-core issues that many American families face. You are sure to be immersed in the intricate plot as well as the fast paced story that will keep you turning the pages in anticipation of what’s about to happen next. There are a rich array of characters who come in and out of the lives of Cathy, Tara, Kim, Hallie and Mike some good some bad but through it all they remember where they come from and realize they only have one home. Home also has a link to the major motion Hoodlum released in 1997 starring Laurence Fishburne, Vanessa Williams and Andy Garcia.

Films Freeman began writing screenplays in 1996. His first sale came in 2001 when he sold his screenplay Stuck On Broke to Underwood Films. Stuck On Broke went into production in March of 2001 but conflicts between the director and producer ended production 13 scenes away from the films completion. Freeman was devastated.

Not one to give up Freeman continued working on his craft penning several quality screenplays and a dramatic television series called Red Oak which will be Emmy worth if it is produced right.  College Park Films

In 2006 after years of frustratingly dealing with unscrupulous people who talked good games but had no intention of truly helping, Freeman along with T.W. Griffin and Ray Coleman launched College Park Films. After trying unsuccessfully to raise the capital to produce their first film, they took matters into their own hands and put their own money up for Stuck On Broke for which Freeman got the rights back. In 2009 Stuck On Broke went into production once again. This time the stars were rapper OJ Da Juiceman and an up and comer named Nicki Minja. It was like Deja vu. Problems on set began immediately with Juiceman or what Freeman calls him "Jerkman" showing up late every single day. While he knew his lines he had no professional quality about himself. The worst day was when there was a 10:00 am start time and Juiceman showed up at 5:00 pm. Nicki was there ready to work but grew frustrated and left because of "Jerkman"