About Rachel Richards: After years of struggling with an eating disorder, author Rachel Richards turned her life around and now helps others in pain. Returning to school after earning her BFA in theater from Hofstra University, she graduated from the Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences and started her own private practice in Manhattan as a licensed and board-certified massage therapist. She hosts a popular YouTube channel and has written many articles on health and self-care, which … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Rachel Richards
Interview with Author – J.L. Newton
About J.L. Newton: Judith Newton is the author and co-editor of five nonfiction books on British women writers, feminist criticism, women in history, and men’s movements. Her food memoir, Tasting Home, came out in 2013 and won twelve independent press awards. Her first novel, Oink. A Food for Thought Mystery, has been listed by BookBub.Com as one of the funniest books coming this spring. As a professor, and frequent director, of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at U.C. Davis for … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – J.L. Newton
Interview with Author – Kelly Wilson
About Kelly Wilson: Kelly Wilson is a Portland author and comedian who entertains and inspires with stories of humor, healing, and hope. As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, Kelly writes and speaks about finding hope in the process of recovery. Through both stand-up and improv comedy, she brings laughter to audiences of all ages using a wide range of subject matter, including silly songs, parenting stories, and jokes and anecdotes revolving around mental health issues. Kelly Wilson is … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Kelly Wilson
Hungry for Life by Rachel Richards
My memoir begins at my college graduation ceremony, when I admonished myself for failing to feel the exuberance that such a day should elicit. I observed, as if from far away, excitement all around me. I was about to graduate with honors and a degree in theater. But how will I pursue acting when I weigh a mere 69 pounds? My story then jumps back to kindergarten, where I was punished regularly. No one seemed to notice how unusually troubled and angry I was at only five years old. I spiraled … [Read more...] about Hungry for Life by Rachel Richards
Trusting the Currents by Lynnda Pollio
Trusting the Currents is a multi-award winning visionary novel that guides readers into their own truth and transformation. Narrated by Addie Mae Aubrey, a Southern, African-American woman, Trusting the Currents is a story of self-discovery and the uneasy search for one’s place in life. Beginning at age eleven with the arrival of beautiful, mysterious cousin Jenny and her shadowy stepfather, Uncle Joe, Trusting the Currents explores Addie Mae’s reluctant awakening. As Jenny introduces Addie Mae … [Read more...] about Trusting the Currents by Lynnda Pollio
Heartprints of Africa by Cinda Adams Brooks
When Cinda decides to visit her identical twin, Linda, and family in Northern Uganda, little does she know they will soon be running for their lives. How did a relaxing vacation result in a terrifying escape from artillery and automatic gunfire? The answer begins four decades earlier when their parents and family of five children leave everything familiar in America to start life as medical missionaries in rural East Africa. Three generations of a family’s love, forged by shared faith, … [Read more...] about Heartprints of Africa by Cinda Adams Brooks
Interview with Author – Joy Mutter
About Joy Mutter: I was born in Jersey in the Channel Islands too many decades ago to mention. I was a graphic designer for twenty years after gaining a Graphic Design Degree in Coventry. I then lived briefly in London before becoming a wife, mother and divorcee in Kent. After developing a chronic back condition in 2012, not wishing to claim benefits I took the bold, some might think foolhardy, action of selling my house in Kent and moving to the north of England in order to help fund my … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Joy Mutter
Interview with Author – Richard L. Haight
About Richard L. Haight: Richard L. Haight is an instructor of meditation, healing and martial arts, and he is the author of The Unbound Soul: A Spiritual Memoir for Personal Transformation and Enlightenment. He began his path of awakening at age eight when he made a solemn promise in a vision to dedicate his life to enlightenment and to share what he found with the world. He took his first steps towards that promise at age 12 when he began formal martial arts training. At the age of 24, … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Richard L. Haight
