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Featured Post: Picasso’s Motorcycle by Marc Sercomb

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About Picasso’s Motorcycle:

France, 1940.
An unexpected gift of an old motorcycle with a tragically romantic past hurls a young orphan into the thick of things as war breaks out and his life changes forever. Half-French/half-German Daniel must find a way to survive in a world that mercy seems to have abandoned. This book transports the reader to Nazi-occupied France, where Daniel unwittingly and unexpectedly finds himself working for the Resistance, and ultimately to the Russian Front in a twist of fate so startling that no one can see it coming. In turn quirky, heartwarming, beguiling and uncompromising, author Marc Sercomb weaves together many moods and colors to tell young Daniel’s story. Beyond engaging, Picasso’s Motorcycle has been hailed as a genuine “page-turner” by those who have so far encountered it.

Targeted Age Group: adults
Written by: Marc Sercomb

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Featured Author Interview: Rick Dewhurst

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Inside the Author’s Head
A feature of My Book Place
Our mission: to promote the notion that anyone can succeed, thanks to social media.

We are excited to present an exclusive interview with Rick Dewhurst, a noted author of mystery and crime. He also has a penchant for literary prose, and it has been said by more than a few literary critics that just one of his sentences compels one to linger, often for hours, lost in the wonderment of discovering meaning. Also, it must be said at the outset that his professed Christian bent has prevented his acceptance by a larger, secular audience, but this hasn’t prevented him from pursuing his ambiguous quest for the middle ground.

Our interviewer for this feature is the up-and-coming literary personage of criticism, DB. So let us follow DB on her journey of discovery, as she gets Inside the Author’s Head:

I was perspiring bullets when I climbed the stairs to the author’s walk-up apartment on the third floor, and not just because of the exercise. I’d been warned by my editor that Dewhurst was eccentric and had only agreed to the interview because he liked to talk to people once in a while. He’d already blasted me on the intercom, and when I got upstairs I found he’d left the door open. Then he must have heard my approaching stiletto heels because he yelled at me to close it on the way in. The smell of yeast hung in the air. I walked into an area of sparseness that passed for a living room. And there he was, about 5’10” I’d say, though it was hard to tell since he was sitting down. But I wasn’t insulted that he hadn’t gotten up. I wasn’t that kind of young woman. I nodded at him, in a deferential sort of way, but he wasn’t interested. He leaned back in his chair, and a few of what looked like bread crumbs loosed themselves from the breast of his brown cardigan and tumbled into his lap. He wasn’t amused, and I broke the ice.
“As you know, I’m here from Precious Insight to interview you for Inside the Author’s Head.”
“As you wish,” he said. “And sit down.”
I was encouraged by his invitation to join him and decided to ignore his dismissive tone.
I said, “I don’t want to waste your time, so I’ll get right to the questions.”
“Suit yourself,” he said.
I was unable to discern if his gruffness was an expression of nervousness or aggravation, or perhaps a combination of both.
“Have you read the preliminary questions we sent you?” I said.
“No.”
“Fine then, it’s not necessary, let’s begin. Do you mind if I record?”
He waved his hand.

DB: I notice there’s a strong smell of yeast in the room, which begs the question – particularly regarding your mystery and crime novels – do you in fact use cheese?

Dewhurst: I see that you don’t mind getting right to the point. Well, since I do appreciate a direct approach, I will answer your question in the same way. Yes, in fact, I do favor cheese over the various other methods of bringing my stories to life.

DB: I see. By “bringing to life,” do you mean how you arrive at the basic essences of the characters you create?

Dewhurst: It’s best not to jump to such a conclusion so matter-of-factly. Cheese can be an elusive tool, and given the humdrum of the creative process it might, and often does, wedge its way into places that lead further away from the light of life, if you catch my drift. And in so doing the exercise becomes pointless and if one is not careful, can lead to serious depression, or conversely can lead to hysteria. But in either case, depression or hysteria, one can, in the worst case scenario, begin to wonder if one ever had the right cheese at all.

DB: I know what you mean. I used Limburger for a piece I wrote on the exquisite mirroring effect produced by the Glass Ceiling, but my editor insisted it lacked purpose. Needless to say, it was never published.

Dewhurst: Since it appears your literary success has been limited by your intellect, had you thought of going home and interviewing yourself?

DB: I’m sorry. It’s a fault of mine…but I only want to be noticed…and have someone, somewhere say something nice about my writing. That’s why I do these interviews. And to make things worse the editor never uses my real name, only my initials, I’m hoping one day….

Dewhurst: Are we done?

DB: No, no, I’m sorry. Let’s get back to the point of cheese. For instance, I don’t think it’s any coincidence that your residence smells of yeast.

Dewhurst: I don’t think the two are related, cheese and yeast, but since you are making the connection I will make up something for your readers to chew on.

DB: Please do, and I really must say at this time that I’ve always admired your creativity, and I have found from reading other criticism in preparation for this interview that the skill with which you assemble sentences is beyond comprehension.

Dewhurst: Quite so. And while we’re passing out kudos, let’s get to the matter at hand. Although I am reluctant to go on record as saying this, I’m compelled to agree with Stephen King’s theory when it comes to writing fiction. As you yourself know, and what aspiring writer doesn’t, the Kingsian method proposes that everything already exists. No small insight in itself, but he goes further when he asserts that you can discover what already exists by digging for it using the tools at hand. And, he says, there are different kinds of tools for different tasks. In the event your readers haven’t yet been exposed to King’s way, let me explain further. Say, for instance, you need to discover how a character might behave or react when confronted with conflict. In this case, you might find Feta essential in uncovering what already exists, thereby achieving your creative goal in a more expeditious way.

DB: I see. But for the benefit of our readers, and, of course, for the budding writers out there, please expand on your own use of the various cheeses, the ones you think are the best in uncovering your characters and plot.

Dewhurst: I see no harm in that. I now prefer mostly Mozzarella. It’s subtle and supple and brings out the essences of that which I am uncovering. But of course Mozzarella can’t be used carte blanche. I find cheddar helpful, too. And if I had to make a choice among chedders, I would say Wisconsin Mild results in a more nuanced digging up of what already exists.

DB: A talented man you are, as is King.

Dewhurst: Yes, I suppose, but we needn’t do everything à la King. I have some mistrust of his exploitation of Edam to eliminate adverbs from his reality. It’s not so much his technique as his insistence that adverbs have no reality in themselves, and thus for all intents and purposes they don’t exist for anybody else, either. As for me, I have known some adverbs to exist when properly uncovered, and in my defiance of King, I extol the use of Castelo Branco, a goat cheese that gets the job done in depth, and far from eliminating adverbs it discovers them intact down there and, indeed, from time to time brings them up and puts them to good use.

DB: So what about pickled eggs?

Dewhurst: I wondered when you might get snotty. I’m sure you’re referring to that fateful chapter in my first novel, Be Like the World, Not of It, where I omitted punctuation. That was an early period, of course, and my use of pickled eggs was the same pickled-eggs method James Joyce used to uncover Leopold Bloom in Ulysses and whose overuse was the precursor to the unearthing of the regrettable Finnegan’s Wake and, in my case, garnered hurtful criticism of my ill-advised youthful exuberance. Let it be said that I have never sunk to the pickled eggs method again.

DB: Since you have now brought up Be Like the World, wasn’t it during that same period of time that you discovered there was a Christian God? And if so, how did your new found Christian beliefs square with your earthy theme?

Dewhurst: You’ve caught me there. At that time I was just coming out of the world’s way of doing things, and I hadn’t yet found a church to belong to. You see, I didn’t want to associate with religious people. The subsequent lack of fellowship discouraged me, and again I’m embarrassed to admit–in fact I haven’t revealed this to the media before, Christian or secular, that I not only used pickled eggs but also Gin, hence the fizzy tone of the piece and the stream of consciousness conceit. However, I did snap out of it, and haven’t used the Gin method since, and I can almost guarantee I will never abuse my prose with inferior and destructive tools again. I’m committed to cheese.

DB: Then what about ketchup & Coke in Guts and All?

Dewhurst: I have to congratulate you on your diligent research. I succumbed only once to the lure of letting such inferior creative substances dissolve the external to expose the underbelly and then regrettably allow them to mix with the resulting uncovered characters in an unseemly way. I admit to this artless method, but again, I must remind you and your readers, this type of creative process, or might I say de-creative process, underpinned only one of my novels, or again might I say, undermined it, if you see what I mean. However, in my defense, some elements in Guts and All were precursors of postmodernism, and, I might add, deconstructionism, which, as you know, thrives on ketchup and Coke and pickled eggs, though I don’t mean that as criticism, only as a comment on the inevitable direction of the creative thrust.

DB: Forgive me for appearing to ask the same question again, but did the writing of Guts and All not conflict with your professed belief in Christianity?

Dewhurst: Okay, I’ll admit it. I have experienced some backsliding in my Christian walk. Guts and All was written during one of those times. But then again, what Christian hasn’t done a little backsliding? Writing is a tough road, and I do recommend that Christians stay away from it altogether, but if they must take it up I advise they stick with the purity of pap, because, as we all know, cheese can be habit forming and when care is not taken can lead to pickled eggs, Coke and ketchup, and sometimes Gin. As for me, I’m an artist, a writer, a creative being, and zealous Christians are always saying we should be taking over the Arts. But when you step out and take the chance of writing a novel that doesn’t fit into the squeaky clean category, a novel that doesn’t square with the illusion that all is well in Christendom, you’re condemned for it…as I have been…so many, many times…and it hurts. I’m sorry…don’t mind me. Like everyone else, I do want to be accepted. And as I’m sure you must know, I am repentant, and I’ve been accountable and sticking to cheese in my writing for at least ten years now….

DB: Thank you for being so forthright in your responses. I’m sure our readers will be encouraged by the struggle you have had to face in being you, especially the Christian you, although I’m not as confident that our secular readers will be able to comprehend the depth of your intermittent spiritual torment.

Dewhurst: Is that it then?

DB: Yes, we have a 2,000-word limit, and once I write the last paragraph we might be slightly over.

I left him there, a talented man for all seasons. And as I descended the stairs I couldn’t help but wonder if the gifted among us were doomed to remain themselves. And what about me, was I to share the same fate, though it was plain that the depth of my gift was yet to be plumbed? And would I plumb it, the prospects being potentially so dismal? And would others allow me to plumb it anyway? No matter. When all was said and done I knew the writing life was worth it all. I climbed into a cab, now a little wiser, having gathered precious insights into the creative cheeses, and I resolved to remember in future when on third-story assignments never to wear stilettos again.

DB for Precious Insight Ezine’s Inside the Author’s Head.

Editor’s note: DB is an undergraduate creative writing student at NYU and plans one day to write a book, possibly of short stories.

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Featured Author Interview: Terence Ang

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Tell us about yourself.:
I am a stroke survivor in my 50s. Before my stroke, I used to pride myself as being in the pink of health and as one who was sailing through life as the captain of my ship.

Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?:
I was born and bred in Singapore, and I have always been more of a hands-on type of guy than one who's academic. I like to do things, take charge, get things done. Whatever I read would not be long passages but short verses. Hence, my writing tends to not to be long-winded as well.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
So far, my books have all been words interspersed with drawings and illustrations. As I myself like such books, so my writing will be similar. To me, these two components are complementary, so that is now a feature of my books.

What authors have influenced you?
I was born and bred in Singapore, and I have always been more of a hands-on type of guy than one who's academic. I like to do things, take charge, get things done. Whatever I read would not be long passages but short verses. Hence, my writing tends to not to be long-winded as well.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Let the words speak from your heart, and the writing will flow.
Find your voice: Writing is about finding your own unique voice and style.

Edit ruthlessly: Writing is rewriting. Don't be afraid to revise and edit your work. Be critical of your own writing and seek feedback from others. It's important to be open to constructive criticism and learn from it.

Persevere: Writing is a long and often solitary process, and it can be discouraging at times. Stay committed to your craft and don't give up. Keep writing and learning, and eventually, you'll get better. Remember, the only way to fail is to stop trying.

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Featured Post: Moments of Distress to Delight: How to Progress from Stress by Emily Kay Tan

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About Moments of Distress to Delight: How to Progress from Stress:

Annoyances, irritations, displeasure, and discomfort all bring forth frustration or anger. There are different ways to deal with them. But as you transit through the personal stories in this book, you can progress from distress. From any life happenstance, you can turn negative situations into positive instances by putting on lenses that add value and enrich your experiences.
This book opens into real-life moments of distress to delight. A little stress and strain here and there can all add up to create much pain. Before getting engulfed in fury and rage, you can move from distress to delight by seeing the gems in unpleasant situations. The stories told happened, and the disclosed perceptions reveal appreciation and beauty in life that can alleviate discontent and bring brightness to darkness.

Targeted Age Group: 18-65
Written by: Emily Kay Tan

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Featured Post: Halo Dolly by Rick Dewhurst

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About Halo Dolly:

Joe LaFlam is back, and he’s up to his private eyeballs in conspiracies. The Spelunkers are back, too, but are they only puppets in the take-over-the-world game? And is Q real? Joe’s latest encounter with the infernal powers gives us the inside scoop on just about every conspiracy theory going. But more importantly, in the end will Joe finally get the girl?

Targeted Age Group: adult
Written by: Rick Dewhurst

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Featured Post: Aniyah’s Magical Unicorn Ride by Cheryl Nelthropp

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About Aniyah’s Magical Unicorn Ride:

Join Aniyah on an epic adventure like no other in Aniyah’s Magical Unicorn Ride – a thrilling and heartwarming storybook that will take children aged 3-9 years old on a magical journey of self-discovery.

Follow Aniyah’s journey as she sets out on a quest to find happiness and discovers that the key to true happiness lies in being grateful and appreciative for what you have. With the help of Uri, a magical unicorn, Aniyah embarks on an exciting adventure through Fairytale Land, Underwater Paradise, Prehistoric Kingdom, and Pirate’s Cove. They’ll encounter princes and princesses, swim with mermaids, soar on dragons, and uncover hidden treasures.

But the adventure doesn’t stop there! Aniyah’s Magical Unicorn Ride is packed with valuable life lessons that will inspire children to be more mindful and appreciative. At the end of the book, the author has included Ten Ways to Teach Your Child Mindfulness and Thankfulness to further enhance the learning experience.

This imaginative and adventurous story is the perfect way to ignite a love of reading in children while teaching them important values. It’s a heartwarming tale that will captivate young readers’ imaginations and leave them eagerly anticipating the next adventure.

So, whether you’re looking for an exciting bedtime story or a fun-filled activity to share with your little ones, Aniyah’s Magical Unicorn Ride is a must-read! Don’t miss out on this enchanting journey through the magical world of Aniyah and Uri.

Targeted Age Group: 3-9
Written by: Cheryl Nelthropp

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Featured Post: Start Your Online Business: A Step-by-Step Guide To Establishing a Profitable eCommerce Business with Shopify by Veronica Jeans

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About Start Your Online Business: A Step-by-Step Guide To Establishing a Profitable eCommerce Business with Shopify:

Ready to make the leap into being your own ecommerce boss? Learn from an established pro and throw open the virtual doors to success.

Would you love to dive into Shopify but fear it’s too complex? Already have an Etsy or Amazon store but looking for more independence? Are you tired of high fees and slow payments? With over three decades of experience as a business owner and international consultant, Shopify partner and expert Veronica Jeans has a passion for paving the way for aspiring entrepreneurs to profit quickly. And now she’s here to ease your entry into this powerful selling platform and kick off your journey toward a fulfilling career path.

Start Your Online Business is a step-by-step blueprint for setting up fast while scaling for long-term prosperity. Presented in a clear and comprehensive format, Jeans digs into the nitty gritty of starting off right with laser-focused examples, actionable instruction, and easy-to-digest advice that’ll have you crushing it in no time. And by employing this simple-to-follow plan, whether as an experienced seller or a raw beginner, you’ll soon take the internet by storm with a sharp-looking and smooth-running e-store.

In Start Your Online Business, you’ll discover:
– Up-to-date tutelage that allows you to leverage the advantages of the latest Shopify upgrades
– Invaluable tips aimed at getting your enterprise optimized and converting
– Next steps to outpace the competition so you’ll grow and prosper
– The ins and outs of amping up sales for speedier returns on investment
– Helpful input for wrangling finances, maximizing strategies, and much, much more!

The first book in the groundbreaking Shopify Made Easy 2023 series, Start Your Online Business is an eye-opening and sweeping game plan for taking your ecommerce venture to the next level. If you like self-determination, fast-action approaches, and crystal-clear explanations, then you’ll adore Veronica Jeans’ guide to victory.

Buy Start Your Online Business to strike while the iron’s hot today!

Targeted Age Group: Adult
Written by: Veronica Jeans

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Featured Post: After the Voyage by Brenda Murphy

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About After the Voyage:

At the heart of After the Voyage is an American immigrant family making its way forward on a road that is sometimes rocky and steep. From different counties in Ireland, Maggie Qualter and Richard Terrett both sail to America as young adults in 1870 after surviving Ireland’s Great Hunger as children. Maggie works as a maid for a wealthy family. Richard finds work in a tannery. After the death of the young wife he loves passionately, Richard marries Maggie with the help of a deceptive go-between who brews trouble in their marriage that never goes away. They raise three children in the midst of Irish American culture, the Catholic Church, and Richard’s battles for the workingman in the Knights of Labor. Their daughter Mary dreams of being a nun, while Josie seeks the freedom of big-city life in Boston. Neither reckons on the future she will face, Mary as a wife and mother of nine children and Josie as a single working woman. Tom escapes factory life by joining the Navy, manages to see the world in the midst of two wars, and comes home to marry his sweetheart and start a new life. Their stories are both remarkable and familiar to everyone whose ancestors made their way to and in America.
The events in the Terretts’ lives are as they emerge from the public record. But their inner lives, their thoughts, their relationships, their words are imagined as a route to understanding these five complicated and fascinating people.

Targeted Age Group: 16+
Written by: Brenda Murphy

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Featured Post: Networking With a Purpose: The Informational Interview, Its Use, and Why it is a Valuable Tool by Brent Jones

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About Networking With a Purpose: The Informational Interview, Its Use, and Why it is a Valuable Tool:

Career changes are challenging. Sometimes companies are afraid of making mistakes and looking for candidates already employed, giving the passive job seeker an advantage. My work as an experienced business executive and a career development coach has helped me share my decades of experience on both sides of the hiring process to help job seekers make the next jump in their careers.

One thing stands out. The candidate must be informed and understand the opportunity well ahead of a decision. The Informational Interview is one of the most underrated methods for success in the marketplace. It is a vital tool for this process and a way of evaluating and reviewing all kinds of opportunities.

In the following pages, I explain strategies to build a network efficiently and the informational interviews’ benefits. Here you will find a step-by-step guide, including a list of sample questions to ask to feel confident embarking on this critical process in your journey.

Rest assured, the skills and strategies detailed in this book will serve job candidates long after they land that coveted job as a powerful weapon for long-term success in both career and life.

This jam-packed guide highlights:
Whom to contact for referrals – even outside your industry
How to properly research before your informational interview, and why it’s vital
Etiquette for the meeting – the unwritten rules
What variety of options can be explored in an informational interview?
A robust list of killer sample questions to ask during the interview
How to land the job you want by implementing this invaluable advice

Targeted Age Group: 16-60
Written by: Brent Jones

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Featured Post: Crimson Winter by Ken Adams

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About Crimson Winter:

Lucy Wang, a Chinese-Canadian woman, leads an idyllic life (which also includes plans to soon become a mother) in Montreal with her husband Patrick, an English Canadian entrepreneurial millionaire whose career is on the rise. Her crystal castle cracks when she discovers that he is having a passionate extramarital affair. Chance leads Lucy to learn of an unconventional, new method for tackling the problem, unknown in the West but all the rage in China, and travels to China to learn more about it. Back in Canada, sets her plan in motion, ignoring that in addition to standing up to her rival in love, she will have to face powerful adversaries in the shadows, to the point of risking her own life. Her dilemma: to accept a premature defeat and quit or gather up the necessary courage to transform herself into a new, empowered woman and go further to meet the ultimate consequences.

Targeted Age Group: Adult
Written by: Ken Adams

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Featured Post: Start Your Online Store by Veronica Jeans

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About Start Your Online Store:

Ready to make the leap into being your own ecommerce boss? Learn from an established pro and throw open the virtual doors to success.

Would you love to dive into Shopify but fear it’s too complex? Already have an Etsy or Amazon store but looking for more independence? Are you tired of high fees and slow payments?

With over three decades of experience as a business owner and international consultant, Shopify partner and expert Veronica Jeans has a passion for paving the way for aspiring entrepreneurs to profit quickly. And now she’s here to ease your entry into this powerful selling platform and kick off your journey toward a fulfilling career path.

Start Your Online Business is a step-by-step blueprint for setting up fast while scaling for long-term prosperity. Presented in a clear and comprehensive format, Jeans digs into the nitty gritty of starting off right with laser-focused examples, actionable instruction, and easy-to-digest advice that’ll have you crushing it in no time. And by employing this simple-to-follow plan, whether as an experienced seller or a raw beginner, you’ll soon take the internet by storm with a sharp-looking and smooth-running e-store.

In Start Your Online Business, you’ll discover:
– Up-to-date tutelage that allows you to leverage the advantages of the latest Shopify upgrades
– Invaluable tips aimed at getting your enterprise optimized and converting
– Next steps to outpace the competition so you’ll grow and prosper
– The ins and outs of implementing your payment system
– Helpful input for wrangling finances, maximizing strategies, and much, much more!

The first book in the groundbreaking Shopify Made Easy 2023 series, Start Your Online Business is an eye-opening and sweeping game plan for taking your ecommerce venture to the next level. If you like self-determination, fast-action approaches, and crystal-clear explanations, then you’ll adore Veronica Jeans’ guide to victory.

Buy Start Your Online Business to strike while the iron’s hot today!

Targeted Age Group: Adult
Written by: Veronica Jeans

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Featured Author Interview: Fred Snyder

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Tell us about yourself.:
Married, Father of 4, Boston University graduate. Studied popular piano at Berklee Music. Frequent contributor to business journals and Senior VP for a Fortune 100 company. OF LESSONS LOST is my 2nd published novel.

Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?:
Born and Raised in Boston. I was only about 7 the first time I was mugged. I was robbed at gun point when I was 16. I spent a summer on a border kibbutz with active shooting every night. Later, I lived in Israel for a year.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
step away from your writing for a while. when you return you'll see things you didn't see before

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Featured Author Interview: E. Ann Brown

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Tell us about yourself.:
I grew up in the lower east side of Manhattan and Cambridge, MA. I am retired and live in Southern Oregon. I enjoy writing and love spending time with my six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?:
I grew up on the east coast. My writing began when I was babysitting as a teenager.
One little boy wanted me to “tell him a story out of my mouth”, not to read from any of the books he had heard before. I did, which influenced my writing later in life.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No unusual writing habits. I just sit with the laptop on my lap and I write whatever "The Spirit" brings or gives me.

What authors have influenced you?
I grew up on the east coast. My writing began when I was babysitting as a teenager.
One little boy wanted me to “tell him a story out of my mouth”, not to read from any of the books he had heard before. I did, which influenced my writing later in life.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Advice for new authors would be not to discuss their writing or story ideas with others while they are writing. If you have a trusted friend, you can talk with them. Keep them to yourself.

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Featured Post: Almost Destroyed by Lakisha Johnson

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About Almost Destroyed:

Ava Gentry met Andre, thirteen years ago, when he was the officer who responded the night she was attacked. Years later, he’s still treating her like that scared and broken girl with no self-esteem in need of saving. Every chance he gets, he tries to destroy her with his words and actions leaving her feeling unworthy of love and respect.
 
The sad reality was it wasn’t the first time she’s felt this way. From being abused by her grandfather to even worse foster homes; suffering has almost destroyed her identity and ability to love herself.
 
But she’s had enough.
 
Finally standing up for herself, Andre throws her out, destroying her belongings while almost destroying her. On her own and starting over, she realizes the first thing she needs, besides a place to stay and a job is a relationship with God. Yet, things prove harder than she ever imagined, especially when trouble won’t let go, and neither will Andre.
 
In Almost Destroyed, follow Ava’s journey from heartache and brokenness to restoration and finding the strength to love herself again.

Targeted Age Group: 25+
Written by: Lakisha Johnson

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Featured Post: The Ravens by Jackie Jacobi

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About The Ravens:

“Moving, magical, and packed with emotion.” Seventeen-year-old Charley Foster’s power of empathy is so strong, it’s probably magic. Bullied and labeled a freak, Charley is friendless until she meets fellow empaths Brynn and Joss who, together, create the Ravens, a circle for girls who feel too much, vowing that this is the year they’ll rise.

Targeted Age Group: 13-18
Written by: Jackie Jacobi

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