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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… LaDonna Marie, author of Until Tomorrow Comes

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LaDonna Marie, author of Until Tomorrow Comes

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Have you ever had experiences or situations you wished would have worked out differently? Have you ever felt like you could not wait to advance, move, and be promoted to the next level in your life? Have you ever been in a relationship and said, I think I deserve better? Have you ever prayed for your faith in God to increase?

Well all these and more life experiences happen to us all. We all have questions in the moment, storm, relationship, etc. Learning to cope and not react is a part of growth. “Until Tomorrow Comes” is a poetry book is a journey growth and awareness.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write “Until Tomorrow Comes”?

LaDonna Marie: In writing “Until Tomorrow Comes”, I found my inspiration spirituality from God, through wanting to share his love in moving in positive directions in life. Poetry has always been for me my voice when I couldn’t speak. Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… LaDonna Marie, author of Until Tomorrow Comes →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Naseera, author of Kidra

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Naseera, author of Kidra
(Keith Publications)

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“Kidra” is about a woman who has had her destiny laid out for her the minute she was born. She is plunged into a world of Vampires, blood, lust, hunger and thirst – and the knowledge that she is Dracula’s daughter from Africa.

With all her wealth and with all her powers, there’s the one thing she doesn’t have: the right to love and hold on to it. Mattheu, because she spurned him, will see to it that not only will she never love, but she must die to avenge his plight. He too suffers from love…

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write “Kidra”?

Naseera: I was inspired by the fact that the only vampire movies of Blacks that I have seen has been the Blackula movies, Def by Temptation, Vampire in Brooklyn and Vamp. I then had to look at the genre as a whole and realized that the original version was about a love between a man, his woman and the way that she died. None of the movies really touched on that. Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Naseera, author of Kidra →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Margaret Curley Sanborn, author of The Practical Guide to Happiness: If You Don’t Like How You’re Feeling, Think Again

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Margaret Curley Sanborn, author of The Practical Guide to Happiness: If You Don’t Like How You’re Feeling, Think Again
(Think Again, Inc.)

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The “pursuit of happiness” is a human right so basic that it’s named in the US Constitution. Unfortunately for most, it is little more than a pursuit, as happiness is elusive to many. “The Practical Guide to Happiness: If You Don’t Like How You’re Feeling, Think Again” delineates, in a concrete way, the direct link between perception, thinking and feeling.

By using highly relatable stories, readers of the book are able to form a concrete link between abstract ideas regarding how they perceive and think, and how they feel. Realistic characters deal with real-life circumstances to demonstrate how the same situation and events, perceived and thought about differently, can yield different levels of happiness.

“The Practical Guide to Happiness” educates the reader on the number one challenge to their happiness, the human ego. The reader learns about the power of the human ego that makes constantly holding positive beliefs about the future, in the face of the challenges of ordinary life, almost impossible. It explains how the ego will impede and thwart most people who chart a course to manifest the type of results that experts, in leading positive thinking books, cite. It then teaches the reader how to curb the ego, and to Think Again.

By using the Think Again strategies, the user learns to create happiness now, regardless of less than ideal life circumstances.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write “The Practical Guide to Happiness: If You Don’t Like How You’re Feeling, Think Again”?

Margaret Curley Sanborn: I’ve always been a seeker, wanting to understand ‘why’? I remember as a child being told, “You think too much”. I probably did, but I needed to understand why things were a certain way. Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Margaret Curley Sanborn, author of The Practical Guide to Happiness: If You Don’t Like How You’re Feeling, Think Again →