Champion Plate

About the Book

Up and coming boxer Charlie Plate wants to win the State Welterweight championship bout.  He also wants to help his beloved cousin, wrongly arrested and charged in a child’s murder.  Plante and his entourage encounter several brutal obstacles to obtaining that goal, including a vicious boxing opponent with neo-Nazi ideologies  and a long string of brutal skull-bashing victories of his own in the ring.  Plate must also fight him and doubt.  From the black community and his own.

About the Author

Sheldon McCormick has written numerous articles, feature stories, profiles and other pieces for the Los Angeles Sentinel, The Compton Bulletin, A.C.C. Church and Community News and several other publications.  A native of Los Angeles, who began writing in 1971, he has self-published a short story collection, Tales of Tyrone (Authorhouse) in 2006.