Deep Powder, Deep Trouble

X Games Xtreme Mysteries #1

by Laban Carrick Hill

Jamil's dad, a ski resort manager, agrees to include snowboarding events in this year's festival, but someone is plotting against the snowboarders, and it is up to Jamil and his friends to find out who is behind the evil doings in order to save their events from being canceled. Original.

Genres: Mystery

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Hill is the author of more than 35 books, including the 2004 National Book Award Finalist Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance, a book he researched for more than a decade. He was drawn to this era because the Harlem Renaissance seemed to embody Ralph Ellison’s sense that America could not be America without African Americans.

Hill has also taught writing at the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program at Pine Manor College, Columbia University, Baruch College, St. Michael’s College in Vermont, University of Colombo in Sri Lanka, and the University of Cape Coast in Ghana.

In the fall of 2008, when he was a visiting professor of creative writing at the University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana, he co-founder and still co-directs of the Writers Project of Ghana, which was formed to promote literacy and literary culture and to publish literary books in Ghana. The Writers Project of Ghana has been supported by the U. S. State Department.

In 2010, Hill went to the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka to teach writing on a Fulbright Fellowship. As well, the U.S. State Department has brought him to Egypt, the Philippines and Indonesia to lecture on American culture, African American history, hip hop, and writing.