13 Books Published by AVO Publishing, LLC on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

First there was Curse of the Whiskey House, then there was Viral Xgressions, and FINALLY, Ghost of Ace Honeycutt completes this thrilling, exciting, and compelling Trilogy! Seems that the City of Lazarus (Alabama) cannot buy a break as the nonstop drama continues. The City of Lazarus, a once promising and thriving town in the middle of Hawthorne County is the reason why many travelers have avoided Central Alabama altogether. The aftermath of the wrongdoings at the dreaded Hawthorne County Whiskey House has cast Lazarus into a downward spiral that seems never ending.

Initially, when it was suspected that the whiskey house was cursed, LPD Detective Brock Taylor lost his life in a valiant effort to try and end it. As violence and bloodshed ensued during the town’s quest to escape the nightmare, all the transgressions from the curse went viral, thus increasing the turbulence Lazarus had already been enduring. And as long as crooked former mayor Samuel Justice had a say so, somebody was getting setup, blackballed, or possibly picked off. Ace Honeycutt, a local thug who unfortunately lost his life in the whiskey house a few years back, was never really put to rest…physically or psychologically. Although many were present when he passed, the body was never found after that in the midst of the mayhem. But that apparently did not stop people from continuing to feel his presence. By Lazarus being a so-called religious town in the middle of the Bible Belt, it was unthinkable for them to be submerged in the paranormal. Pierre, the brother of the fallen Detective Brock Taylor, Destiny, the aunt of the fallen Brooklyn Fontroy, and Braxton, the town whipping boy must find a way to persevere through the malignant thicket of obstacles that keep Lazarus in a constant state of regression. One has to wonder though, is a ghost really playing a role in terrorizing them to the point in which they cannot succeed? Or are they simply allowing their own personal demons to cast aspersions at their every attempt?

The Spooky Prophets Motorcycle Club which entails a few relatives of Ace Honeycutt within its membership, has spawned out of the dark chasms of Hawthorne County. They have one job, destroy anyone and anything that had something to do with the demise of Ace Honeycutt. With the Spooky Prophets aggressively vying to avenge Ace’s death and Pierre, Brooklyn, and Braxton seeking to end the curse while supposedly being haunted by the late Ace Honeycutt, would this put them on a collision course for war? Would Lazarus and Hawthorne County be able to withstand another round of cataclysmic upheaval? Only time will tell.

Geometry: Poetry that Covers All Angles is an ensemble of lyrical gems that basically produce what the title says… poetry from all angles.

Geometry provides the reader with the pleasure of viewing some of the simplest and most complicated things in life, from several vantage points. Sometimes a firmer understanding is developed when art is applied to unique angles. The mental digestive process is made easier when words are packaged together to form a pleasant flow of euphoria. Geometry also features two chapters of brilliantly written odes to famous people, places, and things. Homage is paid to the best and greatest in the most colorful of fashions. Author Marc Lacy opened his poetic vault, turned it upside down and shook it.

Geometry just happens to be one of the many landing spots for the highly anticipated poetry from the vault. Although this book will not assist the reader in solving the Quadratic Equation, it will definitely help to understand life in general, regardless of the degrees of angles with which challenges occur.

Crescendo: Lyrics that Make you Reach your Poetic Peak is a piece of poetic art that has been carefully crafted to tickle the reader’s lyrical fancy. Words jump off the page, and mercilessly block the reader’s peripheral vision so that they have no choice but to be laser focused on the flow directly in front of them. Often time the poetry requires reading twice simply because the question will be spawned to the tune of, “Did he really say that?”

Crescendo is one of seven poetry books whose contents have been supplied mostly by the remaining poetry within Marc Lacy’s vault. It entails previously unreleased poems as well as a few newer ones. The reader will certainly be able to tell the distinct difference between Lacy’s writing of old and the style for the present day. With a wide range of subject matter, this literary work comprised of 77 original poems, is sure to challenge the reader to look at life situations from multiple perspectives.

Crescendo is all about mental elevation, colorful takes, and a serious stirring of the soul.

ReQuiem: Poetic Canticles Producing Personal Revivals offers a creative hardline approach to everyday and ordinary life situations that people may endure from time to time. Although it tends to pull no punches in the aims of the poetry, it can easily be deemed a sweet escape from the harsh conclusions that life can sometimes present. Lacy journeys to the edges of the creative window with which God has blessed him and creates a figurative looking glass through which the reader can gaze intensely at the messages. Once the eyes zero in on the stanzas, the rhythm of the rhymes are locked into a sequence of beats like a metronome. In essence, the flow is so silky that no head will go unbobbed.

ReQuiem provides the reader with 73 opportunities to catch the flow, feel the vibes, and get moved to a higher version of self through the lyrics. This particular collection is a beneficiary of Marc Lacy’s timeless vault of poetic secrets. He reached way back in the stash to pull pieces that have been highly anticipated. But alas, there are also a few new pieces and yes, one will also be able to tell them apart based on the writing style.

ReQuiem is like a rent-a-car, once you pick it up, it can take you anywhere you want to go…that is…if you stay focused on the smooth highway of pages that awaits you.

Exposé: Poetical Revelations that Enlighten the Mind dares the reader to place themselves within each line and follow every syllable to see where it leads them. For when the reader thinks of everything going on in the world today, they’re going to be able to draw a parallel to each poem written in this book.

Not that Exposé is anywhere comparable to the Book of Revelations in the Bible, but it definitely is a relatable tool when analyzing the world today. And it’s not just a few pieces, it’s a total of 80 cerebral hot yoga-inducing lyrical lessons. With the cardio-like experience that the mind gains when partaking of Exposé, the reader will feel as if unnecessary fat and baggage are being burned away from their thoughts.

Marc Lacy’s poetry vault contains a variety of flavors and those which have been sprinkled within the pages of this book are certainly seasoned to please the reader’s rhythmic taste buds. Exposé will not solve life’s problems, but the enlightenment gained from the contents will ensure that hope is always retained.

Ammunition: Poetry that Penetrates the Heart and Mind is a risky title, especially in this controversial day and age. However, it has been said that blessings are in close proximity of curses. And behind the cover, are 77 in your face lyrical blessings that give the reader no choice but to buckle up and partake of a heartfelt rhapsodic excursion.

With Ammunition, Lacy’s writing locks the mind in a solitarily confined container of realness and tosses away the key. However, this potent poetic elixir incorporates a nice helping of curveball themes, offbeat titles, and metaphors galore. See, this is what happens when numerous unreleased poems are just waiting to be launched out of the vault like eager racehorses in the starting stalls of a high-stakes derby. And it just so happens that Ammunition is one of the landing spots for the poetic content of Marc Lacy’s poetry vault. The vault contains poetic works that are decades old. But this book is a combination of those historic pieces as well as a few news ones too.

So, with an open heart and mind, Ammunition is guaranteed to never miss its figurative target. For it will take the reader directly to the bullseye.

Beatific Ambrosia: Love Poetry that Baptizes You into a Paradigm of Euphoria makes appreciating sensual writing that much easier. Just look at those beautiful models on the cover. Their essence is represented to a tee within the poetry that resides in this book. Beatific Ambrosia talks about numerous issues surrounding the subject of love. The intended purpose of the poetry is to get the reader deep into their feelings and pull them into an introspective phase. While in the phase, the reader has the perfect opportunity to assess their own love life and situations in which the heart was prompted to make a decision.

This book contains 85 separate pieces of sensual poetic artwork that break down the good, bad, and ugly when it comes to matters of the heart. Marc Lacy’s poetry vault was bursting at the seams with love poetry and Beatific Ambrosia gives many of those pieces a loving home. Once the cover is cracked, the reader is welcomed into the love house full of love poetry.

Enraptured Felicity: Love Poetry that Casts You into a Hypnotic Lyrical Trance is love poetry book that gives the reader a free pass to their heart’s amusement park so that they may get the thrill of their life on the rollercoaster of love. Just like the sexy models on the cover, the poetry has an alluring glow that gains and maintains the reader’s attention. It’s like a foreplay session with a certain edginess to it that rubs the curiosity like a masseuse, then the reader finds themselves right in the middle of a fantastical experience whereby literary ecstasy takes complete control.

Enraptured Felicity contains 86 private sessions in which the reader can experience lyrical love thirsts being quenched as well as poetic fixes being granted. With so much love poetry populating Marc Lacy’s vault, Enraptured Felicity is the perfect vessel through which the love messaging can be channeled. Not only will this collection of poetry seduce the reader into giving up their precious attention; but it will lure them right to the edge and bam, hit them with a serious love message.

Viral Xgressions: Tainted Souls, Hacked Spirits, Wretched Deals, and Flatlines (Whiskey House Trilogy Book 2)

It is no mystery that Lazarus, Alabama truly needs Jesus. But with what went down at the whiskey house last spring, one would never hesitate to ask the question, Why would Jesus even consider coming to Lazarus…period? Lazarus Police Department and Hawthorne County Sheriff s Office had their hands full with the cataclysm at the Hawthorne County Whiskey House. After having to deal with false prophets and violent death, a serious toll was taken on the Lazarus authorities and leadership. So by now all citizens of Lazarus and Hawthorne County definitely know, it s not just an urban legend. If you choose to enter the whiskey house, if you should ever come out, then your life will go south. It doesn t matter if a person is good natured, has good intentions, or is drama free. Passage through the whiskey house produced a magnitude of tainting in the life of every bold soul who braved its interior. So welcome to present day Lazarus, Alabama. Back in the spring, if a person did not get murdered, violated, or incarcerated, they were immensely mentally impacted. Or in some regards, they may have been stricken with some sort of physical ailment. Either way, Lazarus and Hawthorne County have limped into the fall. And with severe budget issues, lack of leadership, and open wounds, one would have to assume that there would be many challenging days ahead for the area. Apparently, most people don t seem to get it. When things happen in Lazarus, they occur at cataclysmic levels. If it seems like a curse, feels like a curse, and impacts like a curse, it s probably a curse. However, in this day and age of viral occurrences, the last thing Lazarus needs is more transgressions running rampant through the city bearing semblance to that of an incurable virus. Viral Xgressions (pronounced transgressions ) is the second book of the Whiskey House Trilogy whose first book, Curse of the Whiskey House set the tone of the trilogy with a thunderous boom. Viral Xgressions picks right up where its predecessor left off with non- stop action, front to back drama, and edge of your seat anticipation of what s taking place on the next page. AT WHAT POINT DO YOU SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH AND FORGET ABOUT FRIENDSHIPS, RELATIONSHIPS, AND PERCEPTIONS…ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE IMPEDING THE PATH OF JUSTICE? Welcome back to Hawthorne County.

Curse of the Whiskey House: When Life is the Principle and Death is the Practice (Whiskey House Trilogy Book 1)

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Jesus once saved Lazarus, but some wonder if the City of Lazarus is beyond saving. This historic Bible Belt homestead located in Hawthorne County, Alabama has a population of 45,000 and is nationally renowned for its fine whiskey. Lazarus, a lively city that was once a resting spot for the Buffalo Soldiers, has a lot of heritage, history, and religion. Maybe too much of each.

The Hawthorne County Whiskey Stop, the city’s most profitable tourist attraction, gets thousands of customers per year from in and out of town. But the Hawthorne County Whiskey House, its counterpart, is anything but good and sacred. Just ask the beloved Mayor of Lazarus, Samuel Justice, who has enough skeletons in the closet to fill the local cemetery. The level of treachery and mayhem spawned within the whiskey house is uncharted despite the fact that Reverend Jackson Jones, the pastor of the Central Baptist Church, owns it. Many believe that a lot of spirits are uneasy and that a curse lingers around Lazarus and Hawthorne County because of the crass circumstances that surround the whiskey house. There’s an old saying around Lazarus, “Once you enter the whiskey house, if you should ever come out, your life goes south.” There is also an eerie prophecy tied to the whiskey house that no one wants to acknowledge; they keep quiet about it hoping it will just disappear. Detective Brock Taylor is the only hope in saving Lazarus from total destruction. But will he be able to extinguish the curse and bring happiness back to the lives that have been maimed by the misgivings at the whiskey house? Or will he be another victim of the devastating curse? This time, even Jesus may not want anything to do with Lazarus…

Rock and Fire - Love Poetry from the Core offers mature, realistic, fantasy, blunt, and hard-line scribes dealing with love in all shapes, forms, and fashions. This edgy, comprehensive lyrical package (for grown folks only) covers the spiritual, emotional, romantic, physical, and mental aspects of love.

As human beings, during our nonstop effort to evolve toward a higher degree of existing, we all go through several phases where we expose ourselves to different elements. In our valiant attempt to achieve, realize, and deliver this thing called love; love itself breaks us down and often has us indirectly touching the outer limits of every facet of the subject as they pertain to happiness, anger, arousal, and despair. Love is real. It sometimes prompts us to engage in real things whether good, bad, or ugly. In order to grow, we have to acknowledge each event as it materializes into its fullest effect. Whether we want to attest to it or not, every situation encountered dealing with love gives all the signs and/or symbols we need in order to grow. Love, or what we think is love, can enter us into challenging situations in which we have no business being, but we still have to use the experience as a learning tool in order to advance in life.

Some of us confuse love with lust. Many of us strongly know the difference and still allow the lusting to run its course. After our mind becomes clear again, we tend to ask for forgiveness and assume that our contrition in asking for it will yield coverage until of course the next spell of temptation prompts lusting again.

In encountering love issues, it matters not whether we re saved, lost, found, anointed, or appointed…as long as we live, love will expose itself and expose us at one point in time or another. But, spiritual connectivity is the ultimate factor in coping with love’s perils. As love rubs, punches, bites, and stimulates, it has a track record of mastering us as we attempt to master it. Our saving grace is us having faith to hold on as God works, continuously displaying mercy upon us as we progress. Rock and Fire promises to cast the reader deeply into compromising situations, revealing obvious and in some cases cavalier hints and clues as to the true direction of each poem. Nonetheless, pleasure, pain, happiness, and sadness are just a few of the feelings realized when rocked with the fire of the sizzling words contained within this book! Again, grown folks only!
—Marc Lacy, 2007

REFlux: Poetic Spirit and Spoken Flow is a compellation of poetry and spoken word recorded at TouchZone Studios in Huntsville, Alabama. Maestro Charles Owens masterfully produces the melodies and rhythms over which poet Marc Lacy casts his lyrical orchestration. This cd emphasizes that one should never keep God given ability and evolution - subdued or embedded within. Featuring music from several categories, REFlux covers a wide range of subject matter spanning from love to addictions. Owens sets the tempo as Lacy accosts it with his creative vernacular. Track for track, this cd is certainly one that will keep your neck groovin’ and your mind movin’. Whether driving, or just relaxing, REFlux will have you smiling while your growing.

In a lyrically superior fashion, The Looking Heart taps into the depths of the soul, and anchors the spirit. It implores the reader to penetrate the core of their heart and trust intuition over intellect. The Looking Heart siphons the mind through a spiritual conduit and injects it into a literary paradise. While realizing the fruits of elevated thinking, a new person is birthed upon returning to reality.