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  The Book Signing that ended in a JC Meeting...

  by jesussaves in

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  hey y'all,.

  i posted a few months back that my first novel, "what a sista should do" had been published and is now available in stores.

  my very first booksigning was in june at a well known bookstore in our area.

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  jesussaves

  Thanks everybody
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  The Book Signing that ended in a JC Meeting...

  by jesussaves in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hey y'all,.

  i posted a few months back that my first novel, "what a sista should do" had been published and is now available in stores.

  my very first booksigning was in june at a well known bookstore in our area.

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  jesussaves

  Thanks Josie!!!
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  The Book Signing that ended in a JC Meeting...

  by jesussaves in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hey y'all,.

  i posted a few months back that my first novel, "what a sista should do" had been published and is now available in stores.

  my very first booksigning was in june at a well known bookstore in our area.

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  jesussaves

  Hi Mrs. Bee

  The name of my book is "What a Sista Should Do". Thanks everyone for the encouraging words. This site has really helped me over some difficult humps. I share alot of this stuff with my husband, but he was never a JW so it never really sinks in. I always feel like saying, "You had to be there."
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  The Book Signing that ended in a JC Meeting...

  by jesussaves in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hey y'all,.

  i posted a few months back that my first novel, "what a sista should do" had been published and is now available in stores.

  my very first booksigning was in june at a well known bookstore in our area.

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  jesussaves

  For awhile, I kept my identity secret, but then I got to the point where I stopped caring. My family has ALWAYS been dogged out by the elders. My mother was a single mom (married to my JW father who left her when she had a nervous breakdown), and we've always been villainized by the elders. They just look for a reason to harass us.
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  Hall Closing in Cleveland, OH, USA Area?

  by reagan_oconnor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my husband called me this afternoon to tell me that he drove by the lakewood congregation (on madison ave.) and it is closed, boarded up!

  hurrah!.

  i only hope this means that there is waning interest in this area and they don't have a large enough congregation, and not that they're building a larger place elsewhere..

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  jesussaves

  Hi Clevelanders!!!! These days I've run into quite a few ex-JWs and I'm thinking of starting my support group back up. We had a nice couple of meetings.

  Tiffany - originally from East Cleveland/Cleveland Heights
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  Apostate Story @ New York Times

  by DannyHaszard in

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  three times a week in the kingdom hall in miami, my brother and i strove to sit perfectly still in our chairs.

  our mother carried a wooden spoon in her purse and was quick to take us outside for beatings if we fidgeted.

  i sat onstage in the kingdom hall in surrey, england, where my father's job had taken us.

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  Wow!!! I'm impressed. I've decided to email Dr. Phil so he can have some ex-JW survivors on his show. Maybe this author will go and have her book sales skyrocket!!!!
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  The Book Signing that ended in a JC Meeting...

  by jesussaves in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hey y'all,.

  i posted a few months back that my first novel, "what a sista should do" had been published and is now available in stores.

  my very first booksigning was in june at a well known bookstore in our area.

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  jesussaves

  Yes, Troy does come to Jesus, but I left the end with his music career really open. I hate to tie everything up in a neat little bow. Pam does start to support his work, though. The excerpt was about Pam and Troy, but there are two other main story lines...

  I'm glad you enjoyed the excerpt. It sold over 16,000 copies in the first month of publication and is already on it's second printing after three months...JWs that know me are almost ANGRY that it's successful. They would prefer to see me strung out on crack and for all of my children to have different fathers!! Oh WELL
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  The Book Signing that ended in a JC Meeting...

  by jesussaves in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hey y'all,.

  i posted a few months back that my first novel, "what a sista should do" had been published and is now available in stores.

  my very first booksigning was in june at a well known bookstore in our area.

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  jesussaves

  Hey y'all,

  I posted a few months back that my first novel, "What a Sista Should Do" had been published and is now available in stores. My very first booksigning was in June at a well known bookstore in our area. My mom, brothers and grandmother (all JWs) attended even though my book is Christian Fiction. My grandmother was hesitant to attend and about a week before the signing she calls me and says

  "Tiffany, are there going to be any reporters there?"

  My response, "Why? You afraid someone might take a picture of you supporting your granddaughter?"

  She dropped the subject, because she fully intends on being first in line when the royalties start coming in. The book signing was also a discussion about my book and I went into the power of prayer and all of the CHRISTIAN themes in my book. My grandmother looked VERY uncomfortable to say the least and she sat ALL the way in the back. My mother, on the other hand, sat in the front row and even asked questions. She's waaaaayyyy too crazy for the elders to approach, so she does anything she wants to. Example - she once cursed out an elder's wife for kicking the back of her chair during the meeting.

  But I digress....

  Anyway, one of the bookstore employees is an old acquaintance of mine. She said hello, although I don't think she realized what my book was about until after the discussion, which was piped all over the store. I did the slow fade 8 years ago, so most of the JWs I was friends with will at least speak. Some know that I'm married to a minister and attend a Pentecostal church, but hilariously enough they chalk that up to 'What people do for love'!!! Heaven forbid their doctrine might be in error...

  I digressed again!!!

  The bookstore employee, I'll call her G, decided to share her juicy little tidbit of gossip. She told someone (not sure who) that my entire JW family was at the bookstore supporting my 'apostate' book. There is not one mention of JWs in this book....can't say that I won't venture there in the future. Oh, I forgot to mention that my grandmother is a regular pioneer.

  A side note about G. - she was from a very unfortunate household who at one point were living out of a hotel frequented by prostitutes and crackheads. I was their ONLY friend who visited them, gave them money and didn't make them feel like they were underclass in our very middle class congregation. Guess she forgot about all of that..

  Well, my sister, also a regular pioneer was the one who was dragged into the JC. Ironically, she abides by all of the rules and hasn't spoken to me in nearly a year and has not been an aunt to any of her four nieces and one nephew. Apparently, an elder told the elders at her hall that a regular pioneer was seen at my book signing. The tattle tale elder actually claimed to have been in the bookstore at the time. I wish he'd stopped by and said hi.

  I called my grandmother after the commotion. I said, "Well...looks like your greatest fear has come true. You were seen supporting your grand daughter"

  Her hilarious response, "Well, if they say anything to me I'm going to say I was there to see my great grandchildren."

  A regular pioneer has prepared her lie and alibi!!! Wow!

  Tiffany
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  Ex-JW Author Inks Two Book Publishing Deal

  by jesussaves in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hey everybody!!!.

  this post is from tiffany l warren.

  i did the slow fade about 8 years ago, and i must say that my life has never been happier.

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  jesussaves

  Bryan,

  It seems that it does happen sporadically when you put my name in the author's block. I have informed the webmaster of that site. In the meantime if you scroll to the bottom of the page on the right you may click on the picture of my book and it takes you to my page! Thanks.

  Tiffany
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  Ex-JW Author Inks Two Book Publishing Deal

  by jesussaves in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hey everybody!!!.

  this post is from tiffany l warren.

  i did the slow fade about 8 years ago, and i must say that my life has never been happier.

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  Thanks you guys for the Congrats and support! This is a dream come true for me, and proof that my world didn't crumble when I left the JWs. I think folk from my congregation and family were waiting for the heavens to open up and smite me! Hey Valis, thanks for the welcome, but I've been around for awhile :) I haven't posted in months, but I always read the board. Love you guys.

  Tiffany