Yo Big Tex, OF COURSE, I don't mind answering your questions. I guess many at this board have felt like they walk on egg shells here from time to time! I'm a touch cookie, and your questions are certainly answerable!!! And if you have more, ask away. You know, I learned long ago to just say no if I don't feel like doing something.
It took five years to write the book with one of those five years being a period where I didn't even look at the written page!!! I was so frustrated, I didn't want nothing to do with it...then when I was ready, I attacked it with renewed vigour and fresh eyes!
Writing this book was the hardest thing I have ever done. Two earlier versions did not work. I think I had wanted to write it without actually going there, if you know what I mean. Difficult for I had many goals. . .
--Like one of my reviewers noted: "...it's not just another whining 'survivor' or 'I overcame it all' type of book".
--I wanted readers to get as close as is humanly possible to the experience of a victim.
--I do not portray myself as a saint
--as a reviewer also noted: I "avoid the modern day fashionable pitfall of 'Christian bashing' that seems to be a very very popular pastime of the media today"
--I wanted it to be judged for its writing, style, and quality; as I told one interviewer: "The [emotional] response to my story is inevitable; to my writing very rewarding."
thanks for asking, Big Tex