Twenty years, Mango Still well known for his hit single "1 Thing" - but he never stopped making music, and now he is adding a new achievement to his resuma: literary fiction writer.

Singer, 45, publish his first novel for adults, This is not a ghost storyTuesday, June 10. It may surprise the fans who only know him for his R&B BOP, but America is an interested reader and a long -time publishing industry booster. Booktok was a few years before he was able to make or break a career of a writer, and he founded his YouTube book Vlog and he founded a book club in 2019. He also edited the best -selling young adult anthropology Because you like to hate meWhich was published in 2017 and featured a short story.

"I was always going to write the fiction of adults," Ameri said exclusively Our weekly Before the release of the book, he added that he has been working for almost 11 years by closing the novel. "I wrote it, but it needs to be taken away in a drawer it it was still not fully complete and

The novel is told a dead black man named John, whose peaceful later life is thrown into chaos when he suddenly returned to Los Angeles in modern times and became an instant celebrity in the world as the first real ghost. When he is searching for a way back, he attracts multiple hangers-some help, others are less-those who occasionally have their own short motives to hang with the soul.

"It was trying to get something really fantastic and put it in our real world and tried as a thought test to think about what would happen to the truth," the American said Ours The unique basis of the book. “It was.

The result is a mixture of which is fully interesting Imagination And a directed criticism of contemporary celebrity worship, a dash of political commentary for good measure. It helped that in the first album in 2002, he gained a lot of practical life experience in the am American entertainment industry when he created the characters like Hanna to make John as his star or Persefon, when John had a mixed feeling about dating his own career forward.

"I felt that he actually would be when he came to Los Angeles," he explained. "It doesn't take long before anyone who can do something with it, who can make something from it.

Although the American book is finally thrilled to be in the hands of readers, though he is not the only project that he is cooking lately. He was also Work on a new albumWhich he expects to be published in the end of this summer or early autumn. The first single, the "me" has gone down in March.

"I just feel really creative and I want to make sure I was able to get it all the things," he said. "This record is known as 'me', it is just as consistent with the project, which is a big deal to me as it is very romantic. It's a big deal to me I really wanted romance I want love to love even if things are not good" I think it can be made correctly "

He is also busy with his 7 -year -old son River in the parents, whom he shared with her husband Lenny Nicholson - and find time to do a The presence of surprises in the cochilla With April Muni longWhere he served "1 thing" for thousands of shocked fans.

Even when he is branching out and breaking down the new field, the track of America has made him a family name two decades ago.

"I never get tired of performing it, which is quite important," he said OursThe "It's exciting. It always feels refreshed to me."

And it is always good to remind her that her fans are still shaking with her.

"As an artist, it feels really good to you, you can still connect to people and connect the work you have done in the past," he explained. "(I) just appreciate it for it only I have made you with that person."

This is not a ghost story Tuesday, is out of June 10.