J L HillJames L Hill is a native New Yorker, born and raised in Fort Apache, the South Bronx's 41st precinct during the 60's, a time when you needed a gang to go to the store. Raised on blues, soul, and rock & roll gave him the heart of a flower child, and eucated by the turmoil of Vietnam, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Sexual Revolution produced a gladiator.James has a successful forty-year career as a software engineer designing, developing, and maintaining systems for the government and the private sector. He returned to his first love, as a prolific storyteller with a slant on the dark side of life. Killer With A Heart, Killer With Three Heads, and the latest release in the Killer Series, Killer With Black Blood, a finalist for the Silver Falchion Award, published July 2021, are adult urban crime fictions. The final novel in the series, Killer With Ice Eyes, is a finalist for the Killer Nashville's Claymore Award of 2022. While Pegasus: A Journey To New Eden is a dystopian science fiction, and The Emerald Lady is the first book in the fantasy Gemstone Series.The next step on his journey led to the business of publishing. He started RockHill Publishing LLC not only to publish his own work, but to give others access to the literary world. His computer background and experience in word-processing gave him insight into what it takes to create good books. Read More Read Less