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Author Interview – Anita Hackley-Lambert: Writing as Therapy

Thank you for joining us for part two of our talk with author Anita Hackley-Lambert. If you missed part one, click here to catch up. Anita, you have dreamed of writing ever since the age of twelve, when you penned your first book about the abuse you suffered as a child. Will you ever publish that book, or was it written more as a journal to help you cope with your emotional ordeal? Writing was great therapy. At that tender age, keeping a diary was important but not feasible with the prying eyes of nosy siblings. I kept my notes … Continue reading →

Author Interview – Linda Paulson Adams: The Driving Force

Thank you for joining us for our fifth and final installment of our interview with author Linda Paulson Adams. If you missed parts one, two, three, or four, click on these links. Linda, is there a message or a driving force behind your work, or any common themes that run throughout? Hmm. I’ve always had an innate need to write. Where it comes from or why I have it, I can’t say exactly, but it seems to be an integrated part of my soul. I could have recurring themes, I imagine, but that’s more for the literary critics to deconstruct … Continue reading →

Author Review — Maya Angelou

Called “America’s Poet Laureate,” Maya Angelou has done more to forward African American literature than quite possibly any author we’ve had to date. Her words are powerful, earthy, moving and inspirational, but there was a time when she didn’t feel that way. She was abused by her mother’s boyfriend as a child, and when she told what had happened, her uncle beat the abuser to death. Maya became convinced that her words had killed a man, and from the age of eight, when the incident happened, until she was thirteen, she would not speak. Sent to live with her grandmother … Continue reading →

Author Review – Sue Monk Kidd

Sue Monk Kidd exploded onto the literary scene in 2002 with the release of her first work of fiction, “The Secret Life of Bees,” which I reviewed last summer here on Families.com. Let’s take a few moments to learn more about this intriguing author. Like her characters in “Bees,” Sue was born and raised in the south, in a small Georgia town called Sylvester. She says that she thought about her childhood in Sylvester while writing “Bees,” and it’s evident from reading the book that she is very well familiar with that area. Her father was a creative storyteller, and … Continue reading →

The Obituary Writer – Porter Shreeve

I started out “The Obituary Writer” with a set of expectations, and found them all shattered by the end. It was a fabulous surprise. Gordon Hatch is a young obituary writer for The Independent. He longs to become a top-notch crime reporter and has his own police scanner. Sometimes late at night, he’ll flip it on, see where the action is, and run to the scene, hoping that someday he’ll be able to break into the business in a big way. His father, long since deceased, was a great reporter, and even covered Kennedy’s assassination up close and personal. With … Continue reading →