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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Lori Higham, Book Manager/Editor for BookTrope.com

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Lori Higham, Book Manager/Editor for BookTrope.com

My parents are involved in charity work overseas, so I had a lot of experience with extensive travel from a very young age. I also worked in the fashion industry as a model and photographer, so that gave me the opportunity to get to know New York very well!

Those types of activities kept me very busy, so unfortunately I had to lay aside my own love for writing. I discovered that I could take on freelance editing of other people’s books and not lose that connection with good literature.

I’m a Christian, so in all areas of my life, I like to take on jobs I can do based on good moral principles.

Joey Pinkney: How did you become a Book Manager/Editor?

Lori Higham: While editing with various companies, I started finding the books I’d edited on Amazon—some selling quite well. In addition, I was given Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Lori Higham, Book Manager/Editor for BookTrope.com →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Benita Tyler, author of Addicted to Dysfunction: Released to Live Life Out Loud

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Benita Tyler, author of Addicted to Dysfunction: Released to Live Life Out Loud
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My book is a personal memoir that reflects my life from birth to the present. The reader is invited to take an in-dept look at my life’s dysfunction. In turn, the reader is able to take an inconspicuous analysis of their own life’s dysfunction.

The book is broken down into five lessons that the (5) most significant males in my life came to teach me. Those lessons were: Disappointment, Choices, Awareness, Forgiveness, and Acceptance.

The book reminds the reader that God will never leave or forsake them.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Addicted to Dysfunction: Released to Live Life Out Loud?

Benita Tyler: I have always wanted to write a book. I needed a vehicle that would allow me to release my pain, and Addicted to Dysfunction gave me Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Benita Tyler, author of Addicted to Dysfunction: Released to Live Life Out Loud →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Jutta Heitland, author of So You are Free.. Making it Home

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Jutta Heitland, author of So You are Free.. Making it Home
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In my book So You are Free.. Making it Home, I explore some questions which I find most interesting. These questions are:
What is home? How do we cope with feelings of foreignness? What is it that defines us as humans? What do we need to feel at home?

In So You are Free.. Making it Home, I reflect on what it is that we need to find our place in life. I approach the issue by exploring aspects of life such as curiosity, envy, pressure, friendship, love and death. Using my own story as the starting point, the questions about life are then followed by interviews I conducted with twelve people from different countries. They talk about their view of life with great frankness, so the abstract ideas in the first half are illustrated by practical examples and personal insights.

I am convinced that moving to different places shapes the personality. These people have something in common; their perspective on life is different from people who are staying at one place. Growing up and living in other cultures has an effect on life and many of these “travellers” wrestle with how they fit into this world.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write So You are Free.. Making it Home?

Jutta Heitland: In my childhood, we moved around quite often. I was born in Austria, but many years of my life I spent in Germany. I have visited Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Jutta Heitland, author of So You are Free.. Making it Home →