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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Nicole McGehee, author of Regret Not a Moment

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Nicole McGehee, author of Regret Not a Moment

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The year is 1930. Beautiful, witty Devon is the daughter of a prominent Virginia family. Many men have fallen under her spell, but none has captured her heart, until she meets New York tycoon John Alexander. Their future seems assured: they will marry, raise a family, turn their country estate into the best Thoroughbred farm in the nation. But what Devon cannot foresee are the conflicts that will drive away her husband or the tragedy that will devastate their marriage.

Be transported from lush Virginia hunt country to sophisticated New York and the embassies of Paris. Travel from the Hollywood glamor of Hearst castle in its heyday to the turmoil of war-torn Cairo, and the enclaves of aristocratic England. Devon’s tale takes you through the decades from peaceful pre-war America to the danger of World War II, and the racial unrest of the South of the 1950s and’60s.

Enjoy the thrill of Thoroughbred racing with one of the first women to break into the male-dominated sport and one of the first African-American men to become renowned as a world-class trainer.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write “Regret Not a Moment”?

Nicole McGehee: I read an obituary of a woman who was a revolutionary in the male-dominated world of Thoroughbred racing. I thought the theme of a female ground-breaker would be compatible with the idea of a fictional African-American employee (soon-to-be good friend) becoming a ground-breaker in his own right. Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Nicole McGehee, author of Regret Not a Moment →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Mary Judith Messer, author of Moonshiner’s Daughter

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Mary Judith Messer, author of Moonshiner’s Daughter
(Doing Well Now Publishers)

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My book, Moonshiner’s Daughter, is my real, early life story being raised “dirt poor” in shacks and hidden coves of Haywood County, North Carolina, in the Great Smoky Mountains.

Moonshiner’s Daughter is also about my daddy, a mean drunk who made moonshine when he wasn’t in prison, and my mother, beaten many times by him. She suffered brain damage in a accident as a young mother. They raised us four kids in some of the worst ways you have ever heard of.

Being poor, we also suffered from cruel teachers, principals, and neighbors. I finally left “hell” when I got a summer job at thirteen as a mother’s helper for the Queen family in Waynesville, NC. When they moved to the Washington, DC area, I went too.

A year later, although I was safe and happy for the first time, my older sister called and begged me to come live with her in New York City; soon I was on the bus headed North with the Queens’ blessings and jars full of change I saved up.

In spite of us being “hick” teenagers and me being underage for most jobs, we somehow managed to scrape by. Although I often got taken to Broadway shows and fancy restaurants, we both got “taken to the cleaners” many times and found out that not all mean people were left behind in North Carolina.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write “Moonshiner’s Daughter”?

Mary Judith Messer: My whole life, I felt so angry that so many evil people in my childhood never got told on the cruel and illegal things they did to me and my sister and brother. One day I just started writing about those things in a spiral notebook and just kept writing and writing every chance I got. When it was finished, I felt so much better! Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Mary Judith Messer, author of Moonshiner’s Daughter →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Joanna Penn, author of How To Market A Book

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Joanna Penn, author of How To Market A Book

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“How To Market A Book” is all about book marketing for authors, written by a bestselling author of fiction and non-fiction with over 80,000 books sold. There are some short-term tactics for those who want to kick up immediate sales.

The focus of “How To Market A Book” is more about instilling values and marketing principles that will help your long-term career as a writer by building your author platform, creating relationships and attracting readers who want your next book.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write “How To Market A Book”?

Joanna Penn: When I self-published my first book in 2008, I sold very few copies and realized it was because no one even knew who I was. I started to learn about internet marketing, blogging, pod-casting, social media, etc. as well as traditional marketing. I went on to have Amazon bestsellers by putting that all into action. Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Joanna Penn, author of How To Market A Book →