Why did you choose "Upside Over" as your title?
The title "Upside Over" is a tribute to my daughters. My girls had learning disablilities, the invisible disability. They had high IQ's but couldn't work up to their potentials because of their disabilities. There were more nights than I care to remember of tears and frustrations, they would study and study. Walk away from the books to get a drink come back and every thing was blank. All those hours spent studying, lost off to never never land. They fought their battles, they've won their battles, and the title is a tribute to the wars they had to fight and conqure within themselves.
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What was the inspiration behind the book?
The easy answer here would be life. But that wouldn't be totally honest. It started with death, when I lost my mother. I started writing to heal from the loss of a very special person in my life. In that healing I realized that I had to come to a healing from the loss of my brother 10 years earlier. But life goes on, death doesn't stop life, we continue to move forward, into new relationships. The book deals with all those things death, life, divorce, marriage, child birth and friendships. It also allowed me to share relationships that have developed through the years. To share those funny moments, those emabarrassing moments, the gentle chuckle to the side splitting laugh. These moments I am sharing will bring you to tears but leave you with a smile on your face. My book is about all the emotions that we live with, the feelings that make us a family.
How long did the book take you to write?
As I mentioned earlier, I started the book when I lost my mother 18 years ago. I accomplished what I needed to do at the time, I healed. I picked it up from time to time and added a little more here and there. My son was a huge inspiration behind the book. He was a very active boy! I started documenting things, because it felt right at the time, he was part of the life moving on past the death. I put the book away in a closet, and figured when my son was old enough, I would give it to him, as most of the memories in it dealt with his interaction in our lives. When my daughters got older they found the book and started hounding me about writing more, they wanted to be in it too. So it kept growing and growing. My family keeps reminding me that it's not really done, it will never be truely done.
Any other questions: email me and I will do my best to answer.
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