Blessed & Curvy

Synopsis  Love” details the individual and combined journey of four lifelong girlfriends. Whether it’s finding a soulmate or finding herself, all four women are seeking to experience their very own version of "Happily Ever After.” Read the excerpt now.  What happens when four friends discover that life after college isn't the fairytale they once dreamed it would be? Brooklyn James, the wild card, desires fine dining, seducing men, and an unwavering appetite for adventure. When she falls for an unexpected suitor, it forces her to take a hard look in the mirror as she suffers the consequences of her reckless way of living. Riley Harper, the cautious one, swore off men after giving birth to her daughter as a teenager. With her daughter preparing to leave for college, Riley is finally allowing her heart to heal and is opening up to the idea of allowing love back into her life. Michele Peterson, the moral compass of the group, has to balance her career, being a ful...

More than a coming of age story of a man-child, Granddaddy is the story of a   coming of ages past. When 11-year-old Curtis is sent begrudgingly down south to spend the summer with his grandfather, he is reborn into a world of nature and manhood. Here, on a rickety sharecropper’s plot, he stands to inherit the timeless ancestral lessons into which he’s just begun to grow. Lilly-May Hunter is a woman that once fled the racially tumultuous south for that peaceful promise of the north, but where she finds herself is not within that glorious skyline that first appeared from the distance. Here is the northern brand of racism, materialism and other-isms—the steely, prying mechanisms that tear methodically away at her, at the man she loves and even their only son. She determines to send Curtis to the very place that she left behind, her father’s house in the rural south, trusting that the wholesome countryside can instill more value in him than the city has taken...

Book Excerpt I’ll never forget the day my mother said to me, “Everybody is not your friend.” I don’t remember my age. I was relatively young and quite impressionable. Her words haunted me for a while and stuck inside my head like chewing gum on a shoe. I remember telling myself, she had to be wrong. My friends were really my friends. They liked me just as much as I liked them. Over time I’d find myself in these one-sided friendships. Friendships that were harmful, negative, catty, and downright a waste of my time and energy. Whenever a friendship would end I could still hear my mother’s words replaying in my mind. I’d find myself often in between trying to repair the friendship in some way or filling a void of regret in my heart. Often in my younger years I found myself being a people pleaser/friendship resolver. I wanted people to like me. I desperately wanted my friendships to last forever. I wanted to be a part of the conversation, share a laugh, a secre...

Like an Onion Slowly peeling back the layers Trust issues Past relationships Hurt Broken promises Abuse Each layer coming off Self esteem issues Walls protecting my heart Lack of communication Another layer is taken off Until I am bare Vulnerable Sweet at the core Exposed I look at you for acceptance You’re crying (c)2018 There Is Sunshine After The Rain About the Author Self Published Author, Patricia A. Saunders was born and raised in Connecticut before relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area nearly 24 years ago. She received her Master’s in Management from the University of Phoenix in 2011. After the passing of her mother who had Alzheimer’s, Patricia decided that all the words that she kept to herself were to be released. Saunders has released her fifth book an autobiography memoir infused with poetry (December 2017) with BookBaby Publishing called There Is Sunshine After The Rain : Making It Through L...

A Book Excerpt from There Is Sunshine After The Rain Stop Waiting Waiting for the special day Don’t eat off that china Save it Don’t wear those diamonds Let them sparkle when you go some place Save your money for that rainy day Keep cutting out pictures of places you want to go Bucket list getting longer Don’t sit in the living room, that’s for special guests That new restaurant that everyone is going to You dream of going one day Your favorite dish is lasagna You only eat it for special occasions Those red bottoms or whatever shoes you saw in the magazine You’ve seen them in the store, looked at the price tag, put them back As you age and the reality settles in The gray hairs appear around your temple You got a collection building up in the garage of items for those special days The dust is collecting on your dreams Finally you come home Open the windows Let the fresh air in New hairdo Vacation planned China set daily Diamo...