Writers4Higher features Ann Marie Bryan

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The purpose of the Writers4Higher blog: to feature authors in a new light, a fresh look at the way writers use their talents and life energies to uplift humankind. Writers4Higher doesn’t promote religious or political views. Authors are asked to answer three simple questions: simple, yet complex.

This issue, Writers4Higher features

Ann Marie Bryan

Hi Ann Marie. Welcome to the Writers4Higher family!

Tell me about yourself. Your book(s), your life, your inspiration.

It gives me great pleasure to impart knowledge into the lives of others. I wrote my novel, “Unforgettable, My Love Has Come Along” to empower my readers, especially those who are waiting for a most significant gift – a husband. 

Writing a book was nowhere on my list of things to do.  While I enjoy editing, reading and writing, I never thought of publishing a book.

 

So, what made me decide write a book?

Here is the answer! 

After I got married, several of my friends and relatives (some living miles away) wanted to know how I met my husband.  They knew that I had been single for some time.  So, I had to share my love story, over and over again.  Of course, no one wanted to hear the short version of my love story.

Six months after I got married, I was stretched out on the sofa at home on a Sunday afternoon, still recounting my love story.  After hanging up from my call, it hit me…Write a book!

A long deafening pause ensued!

A book! A book!

Every reason not to write this book came to mind. Yes, every reason.  But, I knew that I had a story to tell. So, I took the matter to God and felt the peace to proceed.

I am extremely excited about my writing journey. My inspiration comes from God, my family and fellow authors. I have met many wonderful people since becoming an author.  Now, I definitely want to write more books.  I am in the process of writing another book.  Unforgettable, My Love Has Come Along is the first of the Circle of Love Novels. The other Circle of Love Novels will also be based on real-life events to empower and inspire readers through relatable characters. 

Where do you see your writing taking you in the future?

My writing projects must inspire, motivate, educate, and empower others.  My desire is to tell great stories that positively impact societies.  I believe in working together, the exchanging of ideas and sharing of resources, so I hope that my writing takes me all over the world to share at conferences, seminars and workshops.  

I am always excited and thankful for the opportunity to share with others.  Since I wrote my novel, I have developed a base of very wonderful supporters who cannot wait for book 2 in the series.  I love this.  I enjoy the interaction with my supporters at family gatherings, book signings, workshops, church, seminars, or on the street. Our engagements can only be described as priceless. 

How do you use your talents/time to help others?

Approximately two years ago, I combined all that I am passionate about and established Victorious By Design, LLC to deliver top quality professional writing services, comprehensive personal and professional development programs and exceptional performing arts services to meet the unique needs of individuals and organizations.

I spent a lot of time editing and mentoring aspiring writers who do not know where to begin. I also enjoy supporting my fellow authors from Tallahassee Authors Network, Tallahassee Writers Association, Goodreads and other online writers’ groups.

My creativity fuels my enthusiasm not only for writing but also for training and the performing arts. In my community, I provide customized personal and professional development programs, specifically designed to satisfy the needs of individuals and organizations. While I enjoy all categories of the performing arts, I have a special love for dance. I have choreographed dances and hosted dance workshops for organizations in Florida, Maryland, and the Caribbean islands of Jamaica and Grand Cayman.

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Website:         http://victoriousbydesign.com

Facebook:     https://www.facebook.com/pages/Victorious-By-Design/240086216046505

Twitter:           https://twitter.com/victoriousbydes

Blog:               http://victoriousbydesign.com/?page_id=4895

Book listings:

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Unforgettable-Love-Come-Along-ebook/dp/B0091NR6XQ/ref=tmm_kin_title_0#_

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15782626-unforgettable-my-love-has-come-along

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Writers4Higher features Laura Cogdill

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The purpose of the Writers4Higher blog: to feature authors in a new light, a fresh look at the way writers use their talents and life energies to uplift humankind. Writers4Higher doesn’t promote religious or political views. Authors are asked to answer three simple questions: simple, yet complex.

This issue, Writers4Higher features

Laura Cogdill

Hi, Laura. Welcome to the Writers4Higher family!

Laura chose to answer the three questions in an essay. Thank you Laura!

Trying to separate my life into the three categories covered by authors on this blog was like amputating limbs. The pieces that make my life are so interwoven, it’s hard to disconnect them.

My journal question-of-the-day recently asked, “What are you called?”  I listed the obvious first: daughter, sister, aunt, writer, teacher, musician, history buff, gardener...widow.

The last word is the hardest to embrace, but because of it, a new realm of my life has begun.  John died two years ago of a brain tumor.  His wild ride to the end is the making of my published book, “Liquidating Life.”  I included equipment we needed and when, medical terms, and lots of levity in hopes it would be a guide for anyone journeying through brain cancer or end-of-life issues.  

As a Tallahassee native, I knew our town before we honored our heritage with the restoration of old homes and the birth of many museums.  A story of my childhood romps on the porch of the Murat house ran in the “Tallahassee Magazine” in 2010.  My first solo driving jaunts took me past the San Louis Mission when it was covered in vines and mostly hidden by trees.  Beyond Tallahassee’s history, I grew up traveling and enjoying National Parks, monuments, and museums, which is why the novel sitting on my bookshelf is an historical romance set in 1870’s California.

It must have been at Godby High when I fell in love with Russian history.  The closest I’ve gotten to my “bucket list” city of St. Petersburg is Kiev, Ukraine.  Soon I’ll go on my fourth mission trip there to work in an orphanage school and learn heart lessons to bring back to my first grade class.  I’ll put together and distribute food packets to widows and pensioners and clean their apartments.  We also have the opportunity to partake in Ukrainian culture through ballet and opera, which feeds the musician in me.  But most impacting is seeing WWII through the eyes and stories of those who lived during their country's occupation.

I’ve written stories since I was very young.  The Tallahassee Writers Association has given me knowledge and confidence, and I now lead the Havana Writers Group. 

The best therapy through every up and down in life has been my yard.  My latest ongoing project is turning my backyard into a fruit garden with limes, figs, bananas, blueberries, and a yet-to-be-identified citrus tree.

I hope I continue to have the courage to walk through whatever doors open next. I never know where they’ll lead and it makes for an exciting life.  I should write a book.

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Liquidating Life Blog

Liquidating Life on Amazon

Liquidating Life Facebook page

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Writers4Higher features Gary "Dutch" Hinkle

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The purpose of the Writers4Higher blog: to feature authors in a new light, a fresh look at the way writers use their talents and life energies to uplift humankind. Writers4Higher doesn’t promote religious or political views. Authors are asked to answer three simple questions: simple, yet complex.

This issue, Writers4Higher features

Gary "Dutch" Hinkle

Hi, Dutch. Welcome to the Writers4Higher family!

1.          Tell me about yourself. Your book(s), your life, your inspiration.

For my high school yearbook, I was asked what is the best description of my life that was unfolding before me. Decades later, I saw my response again in writing. I had said, “To uniquely fulfill my destiny”(It really is !). If asked today, what is my measurement of living up to my response as a young man?

I am a martial arts “master” with an extensive background that spans over 45 years, and includes training in over two dozen different martial arts in the U.S., Europe, South America, and the Orient. With advanced Black Belts in over 9 disciplines and a PhD in Oriental Studies, I am considered an authority and an expert on self-defense and martial arts. I still teach martial arts to Black Belts from many disciplines every week.

I have been on over a dozen radio programs, one nationally syndicated program, as a special expert guest. Can be heard as FREE MP3 audio files on YouTube and iTunes) I have written several books and many articles on the internet on specific areas of self-defense and martial arts.

I am also an experienced, internationally Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and business fraud investigator. While I ran my own business consulting company in Oklahoma, I also became a Licensed Crime & Fidelity Bond Adjuster. I have conducted many presentations to many business organizations in the areas of business fraud detection and elimination. I have several books in various stages of preparation on the subject of business fraud. I am a past Fortune 500 Corporate Manager.

I am also a world traveler. Not only have I either lived or visited every state in this country, I have visited and lived for a time in Canada, and many countries in Europe, South America, and Asia.

And finally, I am a published author. As a three time “#1 Bestselling Author” on Amazon, my books are being sold around the world in 5 continents and 7 international markets.

2.   Where do you see your writing taking you in the future?
If you could go back ten years into my past and ask me if I would write a book, I would have given you a dozen reasons why I was not qualified and unworthy. But here I am, a published author of many books and articles, with people around the world benefiting from my knowledge and experience. As you see from my experience, I have a wealth of ideas to draw from for the books to come.

It has become hard at times to keep up with potential book concepts and ideas. With four books complete, several being translated in many languages and into audio books, and with many books in various stages of completion, I have never been so successful, and bound out of bed every morning with a drive to do more…

3.   How do you use your talents/time to help others?

I sincerely believe that my existence in this world is to make a difference to others, to inspire others, and to improve the condition around me by helping others. I do this by sharing my knowledge and beliefs in the vehicle of writing books, giving presentations, and teaching classes. Not only do I teach martial arts and self-defense classes, I also teach classes on beginning Japanese language, beginning Japanese writing, assisting authors in writing books and getting published, and assisting those in business in the areas of business fraud, business ethics, and ancient Chinese strategies that are being used in business every day.

Gary "Dutch" Hinkle, AAS, BS, PhD

6th Degree Black Belt Master Ju-Jitsu Instructor (Kyoshi)

Expert in Martial Arts and Self-Defense

45 years of experience / over 9 Black Belts 

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http://www.WhispersOfBushido.com

http://dutchhinklelegalinve.wix.com/secret-buttons-hand

http://www.linkedin.com/in/garydutchhinkle

http://dutchhinklelegalinve.wix.com/dutch-antifraud#!home/mainPage

"Secret Wisdom of the Orient" on Amazon

 Master "Dutch" Hinkle's author webpage on Amazon

"Secret Buttons of the Hand" on Amazon

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Writers4Higher features Lori Nelson Spielman

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The purpose of the Writers4Higher blog: to feature authors in a new light, a fresh look at the way writers use their talents and life energies to uplift humankind. Writers4Higher doesn’t promote religious or political views. Authors are asked to answer three simple questions: simple, yet complex.

This issue, Writers4Higher features

Lori Nelson Spielman

Hi, Lori. Welcome to the Writers4Higher family!

1.Tell me about yourself. Your book(s), your life, your inspiration.

I’m 52 years old—quite possibly the oldest debut novelist ever! I’m married to a wonderful college professor and have two step-adults and three grandchildren. Like the protagonist in The Life List, I’m a homebound teacher in an inner city school, where I teach sick children in their homes or at the hospital, a job that allows me to glimpse a slice of life I wouldn’t normally be privy to.

Early on in my job, I was assigned to teach a group of expelled teens, and began writing vignettes for these students as part of their English credit. These stories of conflict resolution reignited my passion for writing. From there, I began taking classes and working on a young adult novel.  Ten years and three novels later, I had an impressive collection of rejection letters.

Then one day I came across an old cedar box, and tucked inside was the life list I’d written when I was fourteen. I was pleased that I’d accomplished many of the goals, but others had eluded me. Were these childhood goals valid, even today? And what if I were forced to complete this silly list? This became the seed for my story, The Life List.

2. Where do you see your writing taking you in the future?

I’m terrified of the sophomore slump, so I’m relieved to say I’ve finally landed upon an idea I’m really excited about! My agent and editor would like me to write another book of the same tone and genre of The Life List. Luckily, I love this type of story—not too dark, not too fluffy. I’m taking a year leave of absence from my job, and hope to write book two while I’m off work. Yikes, I said it! Let’s hope I didn’t jinx myself!

3. How do you use your talents/time to help others?

I’m a bit uncomfortable talking publicly about what I do to help others. But I will say two things—first, I’m incredibly grateful for the letters I’ve received from readers, telling me how The Life List has inspired them to make changes in their lives. One of the central themes in the novel is to go after your dreams. I’d love to think that perhaps my story gave someone the courage to do exactly that.

Second, I was lucky to be born with a fairly happy disposition. I genuinely like most people, and they seem to like me. At some point in my adulthood, I began to wonder about my purpose on earth. Finally, it dawned on me that my purpose was to make others feel good. Not necessarily by visiting hospital bedsides or doing missionary work, but by being kind, each and every day, to everyone I encountered.

Mind you, I sometimes fall short of this goal. But I firmly believe that every one of us has the potential to make the world a better place each time we enter a room. We can do it with a warm smile, or by treating a stranger with respect, by asking someone about their day and really listening, or by complimenting someone who’s doing something well. It’s incredibly easy, and you’d be surprised how it can change the mood of a waitress or a clerk, a colleague or a friend.

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Website:Lori's Website

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Amazon link: "The Life LIst" on Amazon

A former speech pathologist and guidance counselor, Lori Nelson Spielman currently works as a homebound teacher for inner-city students. Her debut novel, THE LIFE LIST, has sold in 16 countries and Fox 2000 has purchased the film option. Lori and her husband live in Michigan.

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Writers4Higher features Doug Dandridge

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This issue, Writers4Higher features

Doug Dandridge

Hi, Doug. Welcome to the Writers4Higher family!

Tell me about yourself. Your book(s), your life, your inspiration.

I was always in love with fantasy and science fiction.  I started reading Robert E Howard when I was eight, and Heinlein soon after.  Asimov, Moorcock, Van Vogt, the golden age of science fiction.  I read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and War of the Worlds at an early age as well, and devoured Frankenstein and Dracula at nine.  You could say I had a love affair with the fantastic in all its forms at an early age.   I used to stay up late at night, well past my bedtime, to watch Shock Theater on TV Friday nights, and would try to watch every science fiction and horror movie that came on.  This was followed by Lost in Space, and then the classic Star Trek.  And many of the movies and shows were really bad at that time, with hokey special effects and second rate actors.  There wasn’t a lot of fantasy back then, at least not that I can remember.  The real treasure in science fiction was the literature, as written by the old masters and the talented newcomers.  Now when the rare occurred and one was translated to the screen, big or small, they were almost always horrible.  Comics were another big part of my life, and of course the movies and TV shows made of them were even worse than the scifi.  Today that has changed.  The big name actors line up for the big budget, special effects laden extravaganzas that are modern fantasy, scifi and superhero movies.  And sometimes the scripts are actually good as well, though more often than not they are not as good as the books they are based on.

I was also the little scientist growing up, reading books on astronomy, playing with my chemistry set, watching the moon launches.  I really wanted to be some kind of scientist when I grew up, but two things interfered.  I really didn’t know what kind of science I wanted to study, and I never really grew up.  I was just as interested in magic.  I didn’t believe that magic actually existed, but I liked the idea of it.

I spent my years in the Army, then a succession of majors at FSU, followed by Graduate School in Clinical Psychology at Alabama.  School didn’t work out, and that’s a story in and of itself.  So while looking for a job after losing one I wrote an anger fueled non-fiction book about graduate school and the field of psychology.  One hundred thousand words in two weeks.  That never went anywhere, but it allowed me to write other books, once having proved that I could accomplish that task.   Wrote two more books that first year, both awful, and then wrote the first one that actually was worth anything.  I fell for an agent scam that cost me three hundred dollars, probably cheap for the lesson learned, and avoided agents for many years, only submitting to the few publishing houses that accepted unsolicited manuscripts.  After fifteen years of trying and failing to get published, mostly with rejection letters that acknowledged my talent but stated a belief that there was not a market for the kind of story I wanted to all, I tried self publishing, which has turned out to be a success story.

What really inspires me to write what I do is the poorly thought out work I see on TV and in the movies.  There are still a lot of great books out there, but I will go to see a movie, like Independence Day for example, that has so many plot holes I feel like I am going to fall through the floor on the way out of the theater.  I am inspired to turn out well thought out stories, using as much of the real world as I can put in them.  Real physics, real biology, real human interactions, at least as far as I can understand them.  I think most times I succeed.  Not always, but more often than not.

My books?  I could write a book on my books.  I have sixteen on Amazon, and am always working on one or two more.  I have two series of hard, far future science fiction, one doing extremely well, the other good enough.  I also have a series that is a mix of High Fantasy and Military Technothriller that is doing well enough, though I was warned in the past to not cross genres like that.  But I have never been one to listen to advice I didn’t want to hear.  A true High Fantasy, several stand alone Military Scifi, and the one Vampire book finish the list.  Some people have told me The Hunger, the vampire book, is quite good, but it just isn’t selling.  I may just have to let that one rest and concentrate on scifi.

Where do you see your writing taking you in the future?

Further than it has so far.  I am doing well so far, developing a base of loyal fans who are asking when my next book is coming out.  In my best selling series, Exodus, I have sold 25,000 ebooks of the first three, 12,000 of book 1 alone.  I want to build on that momentum.  I have been asked what I would do if I were offered a conventional publishing contract, and I honestly have to say I just don’t know.  In some respects that would be the dream come true, as I would have an editor and a cover designer, though from what I hear I would still have to do most of my own promotion.  But there would be the cost of not being able to produce as much as I want, some limitations put on me by the publisher.  But right now I’m just enjoying the ride. It as such a relief to leave my state job and become my own boss.  Those people are crazy in State Government, and they were making me crazy too.  Now I can do what I love, travel when I want, even looking forward to buying a house in the near future.  I am going to Dragoncon in Atlanta at the end of October, and will be taking a master level writing class focusing on science fiction, with some well know authors as guest lecturers.  I would like to go to Europe and call it research or a future series.  I’ve got my first taste of living the dream, and I want more of it.  I think if I work hard and continue to keep doing what I have, I will continue to attract fans and sell books.  That means listening to those fans, maybe not doing everything they want, but paying attention.  Constantly learning and growing.  And I might just petition the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer’s of America to join without being signed with a major publisher

How do you use your talents/time to help others?

I am really a big animal lover.  I have four cats at home, and would have dogs if I owned my own place.  I use some of my earnings to support animal charities, big cat rescue, the Humane Society, various organizations that support the preservation of nature. People where I used to work would ask me why I didn’t support human charities, and I would answer that my heart is with the animals who can’t defend themselves.  On the writing front I am always willing to lend a hand.  I contact people online all the time who ask me how I am getting sales, and I tell them what I did.  I’m not sure all of what I did got me where I am, but it’s the only way I know how to help them.  I belong to many writers groups online, at Facebook, and use that medium to help.  I have tried to help some people who really didn’t want the advice, other than a one sentence secret on how to get ahead.  Unfortunately there is no such secret.  I had to work a lot of years to get something out there that people wanted to read.  I had to take risks in putting it out where people could criticize it.  And everyone else has to do the same.  If they want to listen I will give them my advice, for what it’s worth.  If not, then I will wait till someone comes along who wants to learn.  I had to learn a lot of hard lessons, I would like to make it easier for the next person to come along.

 

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Exodus 3:  Exodus 3 on Amazon

We Are Death, Come For You:  We Are Death, Come For You on Amazon

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Writers4Higher features Saundra Kelley

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The purpose of the Writers4Higher blog: to feature authors in a new light, a fresh look at the way writers use their talents and life energies to uplift humankind. Writers4Higher doesn’t promote religious or political views. Authors are asked to answer three simple questions: simple, yet complex.

This issue, Writers4Higher features

Saundra Kelley

Hi, Saundra. Welcome to the Writers4Higher family!

1.            Tell me about yourself, Your books, your life, your inspiration:

I am a writer, born and bred in Tallahassee, Florida. With five generations on my dad’s side—in the Woodville/St. Marks area, and seven on my mom’s—Cody and Monticello . . . white sand, red clay and blue/green water permeate my sense of being. I am also a professional storyteller—a traveler with a rate card for hire. I tell the legends and stories of Florida, of my family and the world. Always, Mother Earth is the star.

I was a shy child—the one you never saw on the playground after school. That’s because I went straight home to grab a book and slid into my favorite place under the old oak tree with my cat. Dreaming about trees, animals, and faraway places consumed me then and it still does. I was a ‘creative’ from the time I began to talk, so when I learned to read and write, it was a given words were going to be my thing. My mother, who named me after an author, gave me full access to her library and bought horse books for me to read that I still have. A discussion about how I diverted from that life would clutter this page. Let’s just say that I eventually found my way back to the path and it feels good. Now, let us examine the journey I took to rediscover that illusive trail.

After divorce, I returned to Florida State to finish my neglected studies, attending with both of my daughters and walking the aisle with one. When I graduated, it was to embrace a not-for-profit service career. I used my writing skills at work, and fiddled around with stories, but due to lack of self-confidence, refused to identify myself as a writer. It took repeatedly trying to fit into jobs that were not right for me, nearly losing my mind and practically everything I had including my health, before I allowed the creative part of me to achieve its rightful place. I found it again during the years I lived on Alligator Point on the Gulf of Mexico, and took great joy in writing about that wonderland of nature’s artistic pleasure.

Still, I was desperately afraid to step out into a sinkhole with no bottom in sight. By that time, my association with the Tallahassee Democrat had netted me the opportunity write a chapter in the environmental anthology, Between Two Rivers, Stories from the Red Hills to the Gulf, edited by Susan Cerulean, Janisse Ray and Laura Newton. That experience brought me into contact with other environmental writers. From that point forward I began to think of myself as a writer—a frame of mind that eventually set me free.

Still, I clung to the safety of home until two triggers conspired to shoot me out of my quasi-safety zone: someone clear-cut a stand of  virgin long-leaf pine in Wakulla County on public lands--one day it was there, the next, gone. Then, while I was living on the coast and playing with an egret named Snow, Hurricane Dennis showed me it was time to leave.

Concerned by the rapid loss of Florida’s native ecology, I decided storytelling in the oral tradition would be my sword. For a time, I saw myself as an environmental Joan of Arc, but no longer. Today I find my ardor tempered by a drop or two of wisdom. Interactive communication is the key to true change.

I moved to Jonesborough, TN and entered the East Tennessee State University masters in storytelling program. It was an intense experience filled with creativity, performance and the expectation of academic excellence. After graduation, I signed a contract with McFarland Publishers to do Southern Appalachian Storytellers: Interviews with Sixteen Keepers of the Oral Tradition for their Appalachian Studies division, index, and all. It was published in 2011.

Once on the track, I couldn’t stop, nor did I try. The result is Danger in Blackwater Swamp, formerly Swamp Woman, begun long ago in a different life. As the story evolved, my passion and love of place spoke through the characters. They became as real to me as my own family, and then evinced opinions not necessarily my own. When the characters decided they had expressed themselves fully and were ready to release me, I specifically looked for a North Florida publisher with a naturalist bent. Southern Yellow Pine Publishing found me; I liked what they were doing and signed on. Danger in Blackwater Swamp releases May 31, 2013.

2.            Where do you see your writing taking you in the future?

I have discovered in myself a sweet blend of the spoken and written word that I find delicious, thus my future revolves around stories; it is my intention to enter the university lecture circuit as a writer, and a storyteller.

As for future projects, there are many. Three children’s books await a publisher. A time-travel historical fiction, working title Red-tail Hawk, will involve some of the characters featured in Danger in Blackwater Swamp. I’ve written enough short stories to generate a collection for publication and performance, and then there is performance poetry.

3.            How do you use your talents/time to help others?

As the president of the Jonesborough Storytellers Guild and a member of the National Storytelling Network, I promote the art of storytelling through mentoring and community service. In addition to our weekly concerts at the International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough, the guild performs concerts at a facility for those with brain injuries, the Veterans Administration Hospital, and for local service groups. Recently, we purchased a cataloging computer for our local library after getting almost 4,000 storytelling resource books donated to their shelves! As such, my community work is reaching out to others so that they may find and explore their own stories and learn to tell them, and to provide pleasant/stimulating entertainment to those who want or need it.

Would you like to find Saundra?

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www.saundrakelley.com

saundrakelley@hotmail.com

www.saundrakelleystoryteller.com

Danger in Blackwater Swamp on Facebook

Books by Saundra Kelley:

Danger in Blackwater Swamp, Southern Yellow Pine Publishing 2013 www.syppublishing.com 

Southern Appalachian Storytellers: Interviews with Sixteen Keepers of the Oral Tradition, McFarland Publishers, 2011. www.mcfarlandpublishers.com

 

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