Fictions for Fractured Futures,
Poetry for Persistant Souls & Books for Business
One Grain of Sand
Noah Harpster has spent his life taking what he needs to survive — a pickpocket’s philosophy in a country that has long since legalized theft at scale.
When a sentencing judge offers him a choice between a brutal prison stretch and an experimental procedure that might kill him, maim him, or — in the rarest, most dangerous outcome — change him, Noah chooses the knife.
What emerges on the other side is a man bonded to an exosuit that gives him access to every signal, screen, and voice on a climate-ravaged Earth — a planet where democracy long ago dissolved into the acid of corporate convenience, and where the only people still calling for revolution have been neatly labeled terrorists.
Guided by a surrogate father. Drawn toward a climatologist who believes the world can still be saved. Hunted by the machinery he can now hear ticking inside every broadcast, every algorithm, every lie dressed up as the news.
Noah must decide whether he is just one grain of sand in the giant hourglass of a dying civilization — or the one grain that brings the gears grinding to a halt.
Join the Flock & Other Poems
“Join the Flock & Other Poems,” is a collection of contemporary poems focusing on topics ranging from romantic love, loss, redemption, abuse, vision, humor, and living in a modern society often at odds with creativity and freedom.
The Illustrated Guide to Digital Marketing
Would you like to learn definitively how to budget for effective digital marketing (also called online marketing)? How to easily estimate how much your project should cost and why? Want to know what stops most small businesses and startups dead in their tracks every time? I got you.
Want to learn how long your project should take or why? What steps are involved? How to tell a capable digital marketer or web developer from an amateur and why? How about how to effectively use eCommerce, content marketing, branding, or how to set up your own online identity that nobody can compare to?
Learn all this, and alot more, in a fun, relaxed, visual way, in my Illustrated Guide to Digital Marketing!
The Road to Digital Marketing Profits
Want to know the core, most important essentials you need to master everything from Search Engine Optimization (SEO), content marketing, branding, content creation, along with how to write a compelling business plan utilizing digital marketing you can take with you to a credit union or bank when applying for a small business loan?
You got it!
In “The Road to Digital Marketing Profits,” David Somerfleck packs all of this, and more, together into one tight workbook that can place you, and your business, in the driver’s seat and on the “Road to Digital Marketing Profits!
My Grandfather's God & Other Poems
My Grandfather’s God & Other Poems,” takes us from spiritual visitation, to memorializing those who have passed on yet still remain, through travails of love and loss, to potential redemption.
Quotes to Inspire & Elucidate
Sometimes all a struggling entrepreneur or even an established business owner needs to get a grip on digital marketing is an inspiring and informed quote.
In “Quotes to Elucidate & Enlighten” retired digital marketing agency owner and online marketing expert David Somerfleck discusses his expansive career in the industry.
From telling stories about his storied career advising political candidates, multi-million dollar business leaders, busy executives, and startup founders, to revealing private conversations with competing agency owners, David lets you know the “scoop” on insider secrets it took him decades to learn…that you can benefit from in just minutes.
From how to propoerly use and understand SEO, eCommerce, content marketing, and branding, to planning for long-term growth, “Quotes to Elucidate & Enlighten” packs a small, but mighty wallop!
Coming Soon
"S" is for Super Strong SEO
When it comes to using Search Engine Optimization (SEO for short) there is as much misinformation as there is accurate information.
And yes, technology and tools change on an almost monthly basis but one thing that hasn’t changed is old school SEO approaches that rely on copywriting, linking, social media content distribution and repurposing, branding, and how you use those in coordination with a few other techniques to create a muscular Return On Investment (ROI) approach that can defeat any supervillian!
Bloom & Grow
In this business parable we meet a young lady focused on growing her landscape architecture and gardening business using a “free” template generator website.
When her business (predictably) doesn’t bloom as anticipated, she decides to take the first job she can get – working as an apprentice at a nearby local botanical garden.
There she encounters mystical garden landscapes and is mentored by the Master Gardener, who teaches her how their gardens and practices can teach her about growth both in life and in business that can outlast any season.
The Financially-Free Freelancer
What if you you could learn from the mistakes and triumps of a retired digital marketing (and mediation nonprofit) founder and startup mentor who’s seen and done in all, who went from struggling freelancer for years to finally one day learning the secrets to starting and growing a robust dynamic digital marketing agency that took a holistic approach to digital marketing that includes SEO, eCommerce, content marketing, branding, eCommerce, married to “old school” marketing that had to succeed if committed to?
In this autobiographical book, I deep-dive into my freelancer career, what went wrong over and over again and how I learned to turn the tables through trial and error as well as careful study.
About
David Somerfleck
David Somerfleck writes from Hampton Roads, Virginia — where the Atlantic keeps calm counsel and the horizon always suggests something just beyond reach.
His fiction lives in the spaces where society’s seams silently seek to split: where justice curdles into machinery, where the surveilled become the surveilling, where one ordinary person discovers — much too late, or perhaps just in time — that the same machinery that grinds can as easily snap.
His award-winning debut speculative novel, One Grain of Sand, is catalogued in the Library of Virginia’s Indie Virginia collection. Here you can explore his blog, visit the bookshop, or get in touch.












