I did it! I self-published one of my books and it is now
buried deep within a pile of about 999,999,999,999 electronic novels.
I am so proud. How many people can boast that! Well…about 999999999998 authors, but you know what I mean. Here is the link:
I wrote a story about a woman who is looking for her birth
mother and gets to know her anonymously through her online blog. It is a
fictional character, but I made her my long lost daughter and I am the mother
she gets to know through this very blog you’re reading now!
Here is the short description of my book as found on
SMASHWORDS, the online e-book publisher:
What if the first
time you met you mother was on her blog. Anna Maria Fortier is a woman who
survived childhood at the hands of abusive adoptive parents. She finds her
birth-mother online, writing a blog called Parca’s Chosen, which gives Anna a
clear insight into the happy home she should have been a part of. As she
recounts her own life she is bitter, but begins to heal. Is it too late for
them?
The cover art (by my
talented Fine Arts Graduate daughter Chaelan Sevier!)
The extended description:
Anna Maria Fortier had only one purpose in life while
growing up. She was to obey her abusive parents implicitly. And she did. Until
something happened that made her realize how perverted they really were.
She worked in their Salvation Army Thrift Store and rang the bell for donations from the day she was old enough to hold it by herself. The mean streets of Akron, Ohio were her playground and the only friends she was allowed were those who lived on them. It was hard to miss love and caring in your life when you’ve never had it, but the day Anna Maria found out she was adopted, she began to hope that there was a way out of her miserable existence. Maybe she was worth something after all.
Anna Maria escaped her foul life when she was16 and fought hard to made it on her own.
Twenty years later, she was ready to connect with her birth mother. A Canadian! But at the last minute, Anna Maria backed out and decided too much time had elapsed. What good would come of anything now? Best to let sleeping dogs lie.
However, her boyfriend Brennan had other ideas. He found her birth mother online, writing a blog called Parca’s Chosen, and Anna Maria found she was able to meet her mother after all…without having to actually meet her. She had brothers and sisters who talked to cats and a German stepdad who didn’t know the difference between buying and wearing women’s underwear! Reading about the crazy antics and happy, privileged lives of those she was a part of, but never really a part of, made her confused and uncertain.
Through Anna Maria’s in-depth recounting of her own life's experiences as she reads through the blog, we see the journeys (often comical and sometimes brutal and heartbreaking) of two women who were separated by circumstance, and who now have the chance to reunite through the world of the internet.
Maybe it really was time to meet this woman who she was getting to know on the sly. The more she read through the funny and oft time’s poignant blog posts, the more Anna Maria began to forgive her mother for abandoning her. But you would never know it by the nasty comments she left.
This had the potential for a happy ending. Or just an ending.
She worked in their Salvation Army Thrift Store and rang the bell for donations from the day she was old enough to hold it by herself. The mean streets of Akron, Ohio were her playground and the only friends she was allowed were those who lived on them. It was hard to miss love and caring in your life when you’ve never had it, but the day Anna Maria found out she was adopted, she began to hope that there was a way out of her miserable existence. Maybe she was worth something after all.
Anna Maria escaped her foul life when she was16 and fought hard to made it on her own.
Twenty years later, she was ready to connect with her birth mother. A Canadian! But at the last minute, Anna Maria backed out and decided too much time had elapsed. What good would come of anything now? Best to let sleeping dogs lie.
However, her boyfriend Brennan had other ideas. He found her birth mother online, writing a blog called Parca’s Chosen, and Anna Maria found she was able to meet her mother after all…without having to actually meet her. She had brothers and sisters who talked to cats and a German stepdad who didn’t know the difference between buying and wearing women’s underwear! Reading about the crazy antics and happy, privileged lives of those she was a part of, but never really a part of, made her confused and uncertain.
Through Anna Maria’s in-depth recounting of her own life's experiences as she reads through the blog, we see the journeys (often comical and sometimes brutal and heartbreaking) of two women who were separated by circumstance, and who now have the chance to reunite through the world of the internet.
Maybe it really was time to meet this woman who she was getting to know on the sly. The more she read through the funny and oft time’s poignant blog posts, the more Anna Maria began to forgive her mother for abandoning her. But you would never know it by the nasty comments she left.
This had the potential for a happy ending. Or just an ending.
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If I should get lucky and sell well, let me just say right here and now that NO! This is NOT a memoir or true story! I did not give up a child at age 16...it's pure fiction. The only reality in this book is my blog and it's posts. OK? Okay.
Happiness would be me having to defend this statement on Oprah or on TV. That would mean success!
SO…if you please, download a copy of my book (you can use an
e-reader or just your computer) and enjoy! And pass along the word! It IS an adult book, so no under 17 readers
please. The link again is :
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/220931
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/220931
I promise you I am not a deranged, twisted sick person…I
just know a lot of them.
CHEERS and THANKS!
