The Story Behind 5 Easy Steps to Financial Freedom By Duane Harden “Give and it shall be given unto you!” is one of the “Keys To Life” I teach and is the inspiration for writing “5 Easy Steps To Financial Freedom: Do What You Love & Get Rich Doing It.” In 2003, I formed a…
The Story Behind DARK SIDE OF VALOR By Alicia Singleton The inspiration for Dark Side of Valor came from a news article of a woman’s plight to return to her country after being kidnapped and taken to a foreign land. To start the plotting, I began to research runaways from foreign lands. Every time I’d…
The Story Behind THE BABY MATRIX By Laura Carroll In addition to The Baby Matrix, I am also the author of Families of Two: Interviews With Happily Married Couples Without Children by Choice. After its publication I wanted to dig even deeper into why society finds people who have no children by choice hard to…
The Story Behind STAYING GROUNDED IN SHIFTING SAND By Linda Ferguson I wrote this book a couple years after Sept. 11th, 2001. When our country was in turmoil and we were just entering the war in Iraq, people had a lot of healing and anger to work through. I could see fear taking hold in…
The Story Behind Artists and Thieves By Linda Schroeder My book is a combination of inspiration and the thoughtful development of characters and plot. For the first draft I sat down with a general idea of what needed to happen on the page and simply started to write. In that process, little bursts of inspiration…
The Story Behind The Wicked Wives By Gus Pelagatti The Wicked Wives is a noir suspense thriller of historical fiction: murder, betrayal, court room drama, love and lust based on the true story of the 1938 poison scandals in Philadelphia. When I was eight years old, I overheard adults in our South Philadelphia neighborhood discussing seventeen disenchanted and unfaithful…
The Story Behind ‘Sleep Magic: Surrendering to Success’ By Victoria Pendragon In the early 90’s I left behind a disease that, two years previously, had been killing me slowly and painfully. The disease is called progressive systemic sclerosis and there is no known cure for it. That I managed to walk away from the experience…
For some time I have wanted to write a mystery involving a private detective. I was also trying to find a set of characters that I could use in a series of books. It all came together for me on a visit to San Francisco a couple of summers ago. I grew up in the…
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