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Amazing Experiences 2/14/2015 11:57:42 AM
A shout out to some folks who have made my first published work a wonderful experience/ This is my first ever blog entry, another adventure I never envisioned when my wife and I decided to become foster parents. Writing my first published novel, Crocodile Mothers Eat Their Young, another unexpected result of becoming a foster parent, has been nothing but good.
Crocodile Mothers is not the first novel I've written, but the others, written a few decades ago, never quite saw the light of the printing press. This one is easily the most important. My wife, who inspires almost every good thing in my life, wisely predicted that this book would have an audience. That the audience would lead me to discover so many other writers who, unlike me, were the victims of child abuse, or to have perfect strangers come up to me at book signings to reveal for the first time, often decades later, that they had been abused, is an experience I won't forget.
If there is any good coming from a child suffering terrible abuse, it's that I got to know the remarkable young woman who is the model for my main character, Tina Diaz as well as her sister who is the model for Selena. I also got to know the younger half sister who is the model for Juanita. Their home life as kids can't properly be called family life. That all three, with a few bumps here and there, have become wonderful adults who will never follow in the footsteps of their adult authority figures, shows me the sort of strength that's possible from people one might not anticipate.
In the process of doing outreach to potential readers, I've found and gotten to befriend to one on-line degree or another, some impressive people. Whether it was a step in a personal healing process, a desire to advocate and inform or any other reason, admiration for these people revealing themselves is too mild a word for what I feel. That is not to mention how gracious they have been to me, a stranger those writers know only through Goodreads. CeeCee James,Eleanor Cowan and KL Randis have gut-wrenching personal stories of survival that might never have been known without their courage to come forward and share things that, sadly, have not become unimaginable.Elle Klass is another friend whose series about an abandoned, homeless child brings an important message to readers. That they have all been willing to share writing experiences with me, a newbie, is an extension of their generous spirits. I will always be grateful to them and to all of my readers who have made such positive comments about my book.
