• I'm Rising (Author Interview)

    www.amazon.com/dp/B07VJ4CZVJ/   I’m Rising looks like a great book of inspirational poetry.  How does it differ from your other poetry book When Love Rises? Thank you! While both books, in fact, offer an element of inspiration When Love Rises takes you on a journey through the different phases of romantic love. From that initial spark to discovering your soulmate, unbearable heartbreak, healing, feeling whole on your own and then finding the courage to try love again, then ending in an inspirational and upbeat tone. I'm Rising is a collection of empowering messages about what is often a journey to discover self-love and the power we have always had within to survive and thrive.  It was written to ignite a spark to remind us that facing our fears and pain helps us evolve.  With messages applicable to both women and men, the prose inspires us all to grow and rise to our fullest potential. How did you come up with the poems in I’m Rising?   Over the past several years, many of the ideas and concepts came about as I wrote in my journal or used writing prompts. However, most of them came to me as I searched for messages to support my Rising theme for this self-love collection. What will readers get out of your book? I hope they will allow themselves to embrace their own fears and challenges and then travel with me through an evolution of growth.  Ultimately, I want people to come away, feeling inspired to own their power. What inspired you when writing I’m Rising?    The realization of sharing my experiences and metamorphosis to a stronger and more resilient woman could help someone else drove me to honor my truth. When did you decide to become a writer? I’m not `sure that it was as much a decision, as it was a natural acceptance that I was a writer. I’ve written poetry and short stories for as long as I can remember. Deciding that I wanted to publish my work and become an author occurred as a young adult shortly out of architecture school. When writing, I’m Rising, did anything stand out as particularly challenging?   Writing the pieces in the Challenges Chapter required truly ripping off the scars and bearing my soul. There were literally moments when painful memories or thoughts would come out of nowhere and crowd my mind. Writing it out was a therapeutic way to process the pent up frustrations and hurt. It was difficult, but worth the realization that acknowledging my feelings resulted in finding my voice and strength. What do you like to do when not writing? I love the arts, both visual and performing, so checking out shows, and small art collections are always fun to do with family and friends.  To wind down and re-energize I like to curl up with a great read or pull out my acrylics and watercolors for a little painting. I also enjoy sketching, taking photos and taking on creative do it yourself projects.  Given I no longer... Readmore

  • Land of the Lost Socks

    www.amazon.com/dp/1733924604/   Have you ever lost a sock in the laundry? Have you ever wondered where the missing socks go?This is the story of two twin brothers, a pair of socks, fighting their way to reunite after being separated during laundry time!Join Howie and friends as they take on The Block sock bullies; whom are guarding the way to get into the Land of the Lost Socks; where Howie's brother may be trapped!This book teaches children the importance of bravery, teamwork, and knowing your self-worth!For more on the author and even more sock fun, visit NeairaTheAuthor.com Readmore

  • Plus One Plus None (HUGEOrange Publication Review)

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VCGN7ZP/    HUGEOrange Publication Review Plus One Plus None, by Emica Mao Plus One Plus None is filled with good advice with wit and humor to boot.  There is nothing better than finding a book that offers helpful practical advice and is fun to read in narrated story form.  Author Emica Mao talks about her life with a focus on her introvert personality through a character named Zita. If you’re an introvert, you will instantly connect with her upstream swim through life and growing older. If you’re not an introvert, there will be insights and ah ha moments when you recognize how introverts you know must feel. Extroverts feel there’s something wrong with women who do not crave the spotlight, the married life, and kids underfoot. Many make it the focus of their friendship (or if family, relationship) to change anyone who can’t yet understand why these things are essential. Well, they’re not, really, are they? One thing I learned about making decisions is sometimes deep within us, we have a secret answer already even before we seek advice (though we would probably never admit this).   This is a must read for single women and a recommended read for everyone else. From dating tips to relatable and funny stories, Plus One Plus None will offer a juicy gem of something to remember on every page. It’s empowering and motivates you to embrace the single life for all it has to offer.  After reading this book you will be happily content in your own cozy cocoon. Maybe as the number of people who remain unmarried increases generation after generation, more people would realize that being single is as mainstream as being married. Entertaining from front to back there isn’t a dull moment.  Zita is a fun character to follow, blunt and no holds barred.  The story, like it says from the start, is about breaking the linear path we all feel we are on as we grow up.  School, job, kids and happily ever after.  She writes about her attempts to find Mr. Right and get on the path she’s ‘supposed’ to be on. Many women get on that path knowing that’s not what they really want. Zita will not be one of them, she is true to herself and frank about what she wants and it’s not diapers and commitment. She’s happy with herself, her life, and her future. Anyone wondering how to get off the hamster wheel of expectations will find resolve and motivation with this wonderful book. You are fully accountable for your life. How your life has turned out so far and how it is turning out to be, that is on you.  There is nothing or no one else to blame.   In as much as there are a lot of external factors in your life, the primary driver of your life is no one else but you.   I found myself relating in some way, either directly or indirectly through a friend, to all of Zita’s ups and downs.  I think t... Readmore

  • Money Matters (Author Interview)

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07W62XLY6/  Money Matters looks like an intriguing mystery novel. Any plans to turn it into a series?   Initially Money Matters was written as a novel that stood on its own. Since publishing it one or two friends have suggested ways it might be followed up, especially by complicating the lives of Jenny, the young protagonist and her new boyfriend, the director of an immigrant rights organization. Money Matters ends with them reaching an agreement to share their working and personal lives together, something that is fraught with dangers. There is an obvious opening for another novel that describes their fight to defend an immigrant threatened by the system while saving their relationship. But I remain open-minded and will write next whatever most catches my imagination. When did you decide to become a writer? In my early twenties I tried writing a couple of novels that adopted a pose of gloom and despair. As I was essentially an optimist the novels sounded posed and were miserable failures. I put them in an attic and they are still buried in my current attic. After I was employed by London University in my early thirties I started writing book reviews which led me to write my first book about the later work of Samuel Beckett, a writer whom I still admire enormously. After that I chose to write a biography of Christopher Isherwood (his Berlin stories were turned into Cabaret). Research for that book brought me to Southern California where I now live and won me the James Tait Black Memorial Award. After that there was no stopping me from writing nonfiction. How did you come up with the story in Money Matters?               This is really hard to say. I began with an outline, but the content of that outline seemed to rise up from my unconscious. Looking back on it I now realize that one of its major themes has to do with immigration in modern America. Well, I was myself an immigrant in modern America and spent a long time freelancing among various Southern California universities before obtaining a tenured position at California State University Long Beach where I am now a Professor Emeritus. So I felt a natural empathy for immigrants, although those in the book face more serious issues of not just employment but deportation, unlike me. What will readers get out of your book? I hope readers will be intrigued by the book’s multiple genres that leave them guessing till the end how matters will unfold. The book is part amateur sleuth, part late coming-of-age, part social issues, especially those of immigration and wealth inequality, and towards the end part romance. So the book is simultaneously a page-turner while raising serious social issues. Incidentally it is a Finalist I. the 2019 American Fiction Awards. What inspired you when writing Money Matters?    ... Readmore

  • The Million Dollar Alphabet for Life (Author Interview)

    www.amazon.com/dp/1070681377/  The Million Dollar Alphabet for Life looks like a great guide.  Any plans to release similar self-help books?    Yes! Actually, I am working on a similar guide for educators. Having been an educator since 1999, I’d like to be of help to fellow new and veteran teachers in an emotional way. There’s a secret pressure that educators face and colleges or trainings are not known for addressing the pressure.  Educators are tasked with ensuring that another human being wants to learn and do well. They know it going in. But until faced with various children and families at the different stages of learning all within one classroom, educators are often unprepared for the toll this task takes on them. It is rewarding, but not without much of themselves being given. Many times, an educator gives up on personal interests just to be of service to their students, who they are not guaranteed will do well or even want to do well. Add to that, the parents and the administrator’s expectations. Needless to say, a person should be in a truly healthy emotional state to feel happy while in service to children. What will readers get out of your guide?     Readers will understand that all of their feelings are normal- even negative feelings. They’ll learn that some feelings serve them better than others. That they can be in control of how they feel every day. Readers can even learn how to change their perspective and exit a negative feeling quicker than they’ve done in the past. Then back of the book includes a ‘Try This’ section. The activities are designed to spark the readers emotional barometers. What inspired you when writing The Million Dollar Alphabet for Life?     I am inspired by the knowledge that I am in control of how I feel. I always knew it. But sometimes I just went with my knee jerk reactions and stayed angry or sad for too long. I went from being a stay-at-home mother for three years, to an entrepreneur. I could feel myself being on an emotional roller coaster too often.  As a mother and business owner, I couldn’t be out of control emotionally because that would serve no one.  Then I said to myself, ‘If you know you’re in control, then be in control.’ So, I wrote The Million Dollar Alphabet as a list. A few years later, I added quotes. I went on to add poems or stories that could reflect what I was learning. When did you decide to become a writer? I decided to write when I was a teenager. I used reading and writing to escape. I had too many chores and a very loud mother making sure I did them. I put it away for years. Then one year while teaching, I realized I was ignoring a special part of me – my story telling and writing part. When writing The Million Dollar Alphabet for Life did anything stand out as particularly challenging?    The challenge came with finding stories that were universal enough to appeal to a broad aud... Readmore

The Pixy and the Giantess: OMNIBUS Edition



https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078PF9RMX/     

Collected together for the first time, with all three novellas in a single volume, The Pixy and the Giantess: OMNIBUS Edition, by Jennie Lee Schade, takes you on a journey that begins with a woman discovering a young, male pixy trapped in a spider’s web. 

Thus begins a strange, rich and edgy romance that embroils them within the magical, medieval and miniature society of the Pixali and the Fae. Theirs is a reversed society. 

This is a story that is simultaneously a dark tale and a story filled with warmth. An adventure laced through with intimate moments, it is a seemingly-sweet tale infused with a creeping sense of horror. The pixy and his giantess are happy together, but a face from his past and the crimes of a sad and terrifying ancient war are reaching out to destroy their bright happiness and all they hold dear. In these pages are found adventure, humor, romance & size-changing, magical moments…and a most unusual couple who only want one thing: to be together 

Re-written and revised, The Pixy and the Giantess OMNIBUS Edition is over 16,000 words longer than the original series. In addition, the original novellas were (and still are) $3.99 each. An e-book copy of the OMNIBUS Edition is $5.99. 

BONUS SECTION! (In the print edition only.) The entire run of The Incubus Stories: One young woman will give up all she has for the sake of one who is not yet real. The clock is ticking, and she will need the help of others…before his existence destroys her. She must help him. She loves him.
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