Day: November 7, 2012

The Big Blog Hop!

Q: What is the working title of your book?
A: When the Smoke Clears
Q: Where did the idea come from for the book?
A: My life’s story
Q: What genre does your book fall under?
A: Christian Inspiration
Q: Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie
rendition?
A: Tasha Smith as the main actress
Q: What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?
A: What didn’t make me bitter made me better!
Q: Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?
A: Queen V Publishing
Q: How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?
A: Still not done yet, LOL!
Q: What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?
A: Beauty for Ashes
Q: Who or What inspired you to write this book?
A: My grandmother
Q: What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?
A: I experienced a lot of death before life. Not knowing it then, but some things (and people) had to die in order for me to get where I am today.
Here’s a list of my tagged blog hop authors for next week.
5. And of course, Ms. Sylvia Hubbard http://sylviahubbard.com/books/fictionbooksbysylvia/
Check out their blogs next Wednesday, November 14th.

To Infinity & Beyond!

I’m simply amazed at the opportunities that have been presented to me within the last month. A few weeks ago, I received a call from a minister in Peoria, IL who saw one of my Facebook posts. She has never met me, but yet she picked up the phone and called and asked me to speak to women of domestic violence at an upcoming conference just because she saw the front cover of my book. She has not read the book, but she said that it seems like something these women need. If you have a copy of my debut book, you know that there is a simple street sign with an arrow pointing upward, saying “ENCOURAGEMENT Next Exit”. Now even though I have not been a victim of domestic violence, I believe there still is a purpose for me being chosen to speak to these women. I could have easily declined, just because in our limited minds, sometimes we feel we don’t qualify. But I beg to differ.

Maybe you were asked to do something and you turned it down because you felt like you didn’t qualify or meet the need. I ask you to take the limits off. Live life as though you are speeding down a San Francisco street on your bike with no brakes! Full speed ahead. Be open to being used in other venues and/or markets where you may not normally trod. The sky is not the limit. To infinity and beyond, whatever it is that you do well or you feel you are called to do, put the pedal to the medal. Ready, set, GO!

For 100 Words of Encouragement, please visit www.soitiswritten.net.