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Gloria Shepherd

Award-Winning Screenwriter, Columnist, Author

You're hearing music composed especially for The Compound

Original Score by Musical Composer/Producer L. Johnson especially for Gloria Shepherd's novel: The Compound.

Compound Theme (How the Music Came To Be)

In 2001 I received a phone call at my home, which at the time was in Springfield, Virginia, from a young man-Laban Johnson. He told me he read The Compound and enjoyed it so much that he wrote a musical composition for the story. He said he hoped I'd use it as the theme song for when "The Compound is made into a movie."

Laban didn't say "will" or "if" the story would ever be made into a movie, but when. This is exactly the type of response I get from all my readers-"We can't wait to see The Compound when it's made into a movie. We can see the story taking place on the screen as we read from page to page."

As soon as he offered to send me the music in CD form, I naturally jumped at the chance to hear it. I didn't know what to expect since Laban Johnson is a young African-American hip-hop composer, who is also the CEO and founder of a fledgling music company. At the time of this conversation he was only twenty years old.

To my complete surprise and amazement the magnificent musical composition you hear is what he envisioned as he read The Compound. To me, this is one of the most cherished compliments any author could hope to receive from a reader.

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