About Cortez

Cortez Law III is the author of nine independently published books that cover romance, mystery, suspense, thrillers, science fiction, and horror. The most recent novel that is part of the Atlanta X-Men Homicide Squad, Black Phoenix, publishes in the Spring of 2024. 

He also placed in several screenwriting contest for the adaption of his books. See that information here.

With the creativity of writing, performing, and drawing pulsating in his blood from his youth, he enrolled in copywriting and scriptwriting courses and was one of the actors on the Kent State University cable system improvisational show Something, Anything. Though this was a creative arena, his passion for writing exploded in his spirit.

He studied numerous books on screenwriting and proceeded to write seventeen film scripts, two plays, and a television pilot over an eight-and-a-half-year period. Slamming into the walls of Hollywood, he searched for a vehicle that would satisfy his creative talents and fulfill the calling of God in his life. That’s when he turned to the novelistic form of creative expression.

He studied everything from book production to marketing to business management. With the company name Issues Of Blood Books and after many months of writing and re-writing, his first novel, My Brother’s Keeper, was born.

Through this learning experience, he sold about 50% of the small press run throughout the Southeast and Southwest.

After the national tragedy of September 11th, 2001, coupled with his natural affinity for the hero myths of the action, suspense, mystery, and thriller genres, he focused his talents and gifts on writing crime and justice stories that reflected both Christian and African-American viewpoints in his work amidst the battle between good and evil.

Visit him online at cortezlawiii.com. He enjoys movies, TV, fishing, sports, reading and fitness.