Tag: Shirley Harris-Slaughter Author

Tuesday – Anything Possible #RRBC’s Shirley- Harris Slaughter

~ John W. Howell ~ 30 Comments

It is my pleasure to have as a guest on Fiction Favorites one of Rave Reviews Book Club’s biggest supporters of other authors Shirley Harris-Slaughter. Shirley is on 4Wills Publishing Crazy! Hot! And Living on the Edge Blog Tour and I am so pleased to help support her. Shirley and I also share a Detroit background so Shirley is a special guest indeed.

I want to thank you for such warm hospitality and support. Thank you, Nonnie Jules, of 4Wills Publishing for putting this all together.

From the Author of…

Crazy! Hot! And Living On The Edge!!

 

By now you have probably picked up that I have been stalked by crazy people in my life’s experiences. I was beginning to think that something was wrong with me. Why was I running into these people? Why couldn’t I have a normal relationship?

I found the answers along life’s bumpy road. I came from a dysfunctional family. My father was an alcoholic with his own demons to deal with. I didn’t know that his problems would profoundly affect the choices I would make in my life. I wasn’t an alcoholic. I couldn’t even handle a drink without becoming ill; but I was told I am an enabler and that somehow explains everything.

I resented being told that but something had to explain why I kept making the wrong turns in life. My second husband told me it wasn’t me but the ‘boys’ I chose. He said, “Their stupidity was my good fortune.” I cannot tell you how relieved I felt hearing those comforting words. I wasn’t crazy after all.

Someone appreciated me and made me feel cherished. That helped me to repair my tattered self-esteem.

 

Shirley Harris-Slaughter

book EXCERPT:

I recall one night, while preparing my baby son for bed, I sat down and laid him on my chest to rock him to sleep. Suddenly, I started to feel this tightness in my chest. It felt like I was being squeezed, and it got worse and worse until I was writhing in agony and pain. I had difficulty breathing. I tried and tried, but I just couldn’t get enough air in my lungs. My mother called for help, but when the police arrived and offered to take me down to Detroit Receiving Hospital, she exclaimed:  “Over my dead body! You are not taking my daughter downtown!”

At that time, Receiving Hospital had a reputation for admitting a lot of violent criminals and crime victims, and she didn’t want me in that environment. So the officers left. Fortunately, they returned with the decision to take me somewhere closer to my mother’s home. We rode to Mt. Carmel Mercy Hospital, right in our neighborhood. The doctors went through the normal line of questioning, including personal inquiries about my marital status. When I told them I was separated from my husband, they all looked at me with the same sympathetic but knowing expression on their faces.

“OK,” one of them said, “That explains it all…”

 

JUST PUBLISHED:  http://wp.me/P48F9L-9T    

THREE REVIEWS:  http://amzn.to/1DOGVBl

 

 

PURCHASE LINKS:

CRAZY! HOT! AND LIVING ON THE EDGE!!

AMAZON — http://bit.ly/CrazyHotLiving

OUR LADY OF VICTORY, THE SAGA OF AN AFRICAN AMERICAN CATHOLIC COMMUNITY

AMAZON — http://bit.ly/OLVTheSaga

 

CONNECT:

Email Address:  sharrislaughter@gmail.com

Author Facebook Page:  http://bit.ly/SHarrriSlaughter

Twitter Page:  @sharrislaughter

Email:  sharrislaughter@gmail.com

Blog:  www.shirleyslaughter.com

 

Leave a comment at each stop (including this one) and get your name entered that number of times into a random drawing for:

1st Prize:  $15 Amazon Gift Card

2nd Prize:  Autographed copy of “Crazy! Hot! and Living On The Edge!!”

“This tour sponsored by 4WillsPublishing.wordpress.com.”

 

The Religion, Rage & w(R)iting Blog Tour

~ John W. Howell ~ 12 Comments

Hi, and welcome to The Religion, Rage & w(R)iting Blog Tour for Authors, Shirley-Harris Slaughter, Rhani D’Chae and Harmony Kent. (Click on each author’s name to be taken directly to their Author Page at 4Wills Publishing (4WillsPublishing.wordpress.com), where you can learn more about them).

 Shirley Harris-Slaughter

 

 

 

 

 

Rhani D’Chae

 

Harmony Kent

 

These three authors are wonderful clients of 4Wills Publishing (4WillsPublishing.wordpress.com), a publishing House dedicated to helping authors put out the best written, and marketing products for their literary work, possible.

This tour is a surprise tour, which means the authors knew nothing about it until it started!  This is our gift to them to show our appreciation of their work, their dedication to putting out the great written word, and also a big THANK YOU for allowing us to showcase and promote them.

This is a 3 Author/7 Day/40 Blog Tour!  Yes, for 7 days, The Religion, Rage & w(R)iting Blog Tour will sit on 40 blogs!  And for 7 days, on 40 blogs, you will get a tiny tidbit of something related to Religion, so that you never forget Our Lady of Victory ,the rage of people, such as that displayed in SHADOW OF THE DRILL , and w(R)iting tips to help you POLISH YOUR PROSE!  (Click on each link to find out more about it)

OUR LADY OF VICTORY(www.amazon.com/dp/B00KDO1MSM)

   

SHADOW OF THE DRILL(www.amazon.com/dp/B00GBHQZZU)

 

POLISH YOUR PROSE(www.amazon.com/dp/B00OLVAYP0)

 

 

 

 

 

This will be a fun tour, an inspirational tour, a delightful tour which has been designed to enlighten you, entertain you and help you overcome those feelings which bind us daily and keeps us from growing from point A to point B.  Each day as you stop by each blog to find out what bit of inspiration is being shared, we ask that you take the time to leave a comment for the authors, visit their blogs, Follow them on Twitter and FB, and last but not least, please PICK UP A COPY OF THEIR BOOKS!  They are all 5 star reads!  And this tour wouldn’t be complete if you didn’t check out The Religion, Rage & w(R)iting Book Trailer!  (Please note:  these bits and quotes were not taken from the author’s books).

4Wills Publishing Author Blitz Trailer

Before we forget, we’ve included another of our authors, Nonnie Jules.  Although she’s a partner in our firm, she is STILL one of our clients!  Her books, THE GOOD MOMMIES’ GUIDE TO RAISING (ALMOST) PERFECT DAUGHTERS,Daydream’s Daughter, Nightmare’s Friend and Sugarcoatin’ Is For Candy & Pacifyin’ Is For Kids! are also very interesting and entertaining reads! Click each link to find out more.

THE GOOD MOMMIES GUIDE…www.amazon.com/dp/B00CP62O56

 

 

 

DAYDREAM’S DAUGHTER…www.amazon.com/dp/B00GLM2VVM

 

SUGARCOATIN’ IS FOR CANDY…www.amazon.com/dp/B00IRIA0I4

 

 

 

On this stop, we want you to dwell on this:

“You may not be a bestselling author right now, so stop dwelling on it, and just be thankful for that single sale you made today.  Remember, the tortoise didn’t get there fast, but he got there all the same!” ~ Nonnie Jules

 

Thank you for joining us on this stop of our tour.  We are grateful to our host for allowing us to share with this audience and we hope that we have left you wanting more!  To follow this tour, please visit the 4WillsPublishing EVENTS page for the complete tour line-up and to also register to win a SURPRISE pack of books as well as a stint on WHO’S ON THE SHELF WITH NONNIE JULES!  Now, on to the next stop!!!!