Books and Beyond
I loved being at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library this morning for the library’s Books and Beyond Book Club. I was pleased they had me, and they were warm and gracious. I had a prepared a talk, but they had questions right out of the gate. We wound up talking for an hour and a half. It was wide-ranging. The ostensible topic was my debut novel,TRACKING HAPPINESS: A SOUTHERN CHICKEN ADVENTURE. But we talked about everything.
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How the grief over the tragedy of 9/11 led me to making crosses and eventually to write Making Crosses: A Creative Connection to God.
How a recommendation from a fellow student in a Memphis School of Servant Leadership class led me to start a writing group at the Door of Hope and edit the group’s memoir, Writing Our Way Home: A Group Journey Out of Homelessness.
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How Cain’t Do Nothing with Love has been downloaded over 55,000 times worldwide (are those folks in Iran and Poland going around saying ‘y’all’?).
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How my fashion model experience led me to write and release my second novel, Model for Deception, a Vangie Street mystery featuring a Memphis fashion model as an amateur sleuth.
And, of course, TRACKING HAPPINESS, the reason I’d been invited.
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They seemed to have a good time. I had a good time. We had a lot of back and forth. Talking writing is fun. 🙂
"Writing Our Way Home: A Group Journey Out of Homelessness", Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, Books and Beyond Book Club, Cain't Do Nothing with Love, ellen morris prewitt, Making Crosses: A Creative Connection to God, Model for Deception: A Vangie Street Mystery, Tracking Happiness: A Southern Chicken Adventure