Science Fiction for Fractured Futures,
Poetry for Persistant Souls & Books for Business
One Grain of Sand
Read the book Kirkus Reviews calls “…riveting and fighteningly plausible;” that Reader’s Favorite admits is “…intense and fantastically imaginative;” and that Literary Titan reports “…conveys sensations most stories rush past.”
Welcome to the United States of 2096.
Freedom is something you win on television.
Dissent earns you a stay at your local internment camp, reprogramming ward, or a disappearance so quiet even your family stops asking where you went.
And the boot on your throat has a flag stitched into the leather.
They made it legal to hunt minorities on weekends. They turned healthcare into a game show. They spliced the human genome until it wept strange, shunned tribes onto the ruined bunt, edges of the republic.
Noah Harpster doesn’t care about any of it. Three-time felon, full-time pickpocket, professional ghost—he has spent his whole life perfecting the art of not mattering. Stay small, keep your head down, stay slippery, stay alive.
Then he meets Parlisse.
She is a beautiful, biracial climatologist and painter, navigating a nation that has sharpened every old cruelty into policy.
She may also be tangled in a resistance network so dangerous that loving her is an act of war. Her twin sister almost certainly is.
Now someone has put a bullseye on Noah’s back—and he doesn’t even know why.
In a world that rewards silence with survival, Noah Harpster is about to become very, very loud.
Join the Flock & Other Poems
Join the Flock and Other Poems is a collection shaped by close attention: to where we walk, who we pass, and the small moments that ask to be held rather than hurried past. These poems move at a human pace, listening for the ways we gather, scatter, and circle back.
Set among parks and paths, neighborhoods and ordinary days, the poems return to motion and pause, to watching and waiting. They speak of closeness and distance, shared air and private thought, of kindness given, kindness missed, and the quiet weight of choice. Memory drifts through the lines, as do animals, weather, and brief encounters, each carrying more than it first appears to bear.
The “flock” of the title is both invitation and question: when to join, when to follow, when to linger at the edge and keep one’s own shape. Across the collection, the poems favor clarity over conclusion and presence over performance, trusting sound, image, and silence to carry their meaning.
Written in an open, observant voice, Join the Flock and Other Poems offers readers a place to pause and reflect, to recognize shared ground beneath individual experience, and to find connection in what so often goes unnoticed.
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!
Love Her Blind & Other Poems
Within these pages, ember-ghosts entwine,
Where long, black rivers shine like tarred-out wine.
Sunflowers hold bold gold; with winter’s bite mighty tight,
Icicle tears fall and break with each breath of brittle night.
Here love is an iron, barbed, and rusted key;
It cuts, then brightens, binding readers to see.
A hammer-fist on glass makes spidered pain anew,
And memory rains, then dries to ash-streaked stain.
Rocking chairs, once meant to soothe, turn to dread now;
They swing like storms above a child’s cold head.
Birdsong with beeps; crows counsel, sharp and rough;
They ask what you will bear, and how much is too much.
Roots drink red blood; the silent forests pray;
A Grandfather-God lifts stars like lambent clay.
A tall man waits there; streetlights blink and fade;
The searing needle steers your will through shade.
These poems are matchflames in the midnight room;
They stitch your heart with light, to loosen doom.
Pray, Muse, let broken visions rise,
To summon forth rising sea tides deep within inspired eyes.
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” is a reflective contemporary poetry compilation exploring intergenerational faith, memory, and identity through lyrical verse. Drawing on lush, vivid imagery from childhood, nature, and personal awakening, the poems trace a young man’s spiritual evolution shaped by his grandfather’s steadfast devotion and iconic standing. Introspective yet accessible, the collection invites readers into a heartfelt conversation about belief, loss, and the legacy of prayer.
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!
Nothing to Do But Stay & Other Poems
In David Somerfleck’s debut poetry collection, “Nothing to Do But Stay,” David writes about love, loss, indepdence, love, passion, insight, the power of sustained memory to overcome doubt, and more.
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 praised by Kirkus Reviews, 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.
