Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I wrote one autobiography, novel type, but have four different titles for the same book because I like all my titles. I also wrote six smaller books which are take offs or detailed stories that are in my main book. Before the age of nine cousins, uncles, brothers, and strangers were raping my sisters and me. A man beat and raped me at gun point. The next day he beat, raped and shot my two little girl friends. I left home and school in fourth grade. When I did try to go home, one of my uncles raped me.
There were so many rapes happening that I’m not sure if he’s the father of my first daughter. The family hates me because he raped me. My mom, dad and family stole the baby and raised her as theirs. The Iron Horseman motorcycle gang stole my next son I gave birth to. He had double pneumonia and a broken collar bone from me getting beat for three nights before the night of labor and living on the streets in the snow. A member of the gang was the father. The gang thought I hurt my baby.
My stomach exploded from being an alcoholic putting me in a coma for nine months. While in the coma my mother-in-law stole my next two children. They were seven and eleven when they were stolen. My fifth child arm robbed a bank in Lake County, Florida with a gang and her boyfriend, Jesse James. (Go figure.) Most of my life was spent on the highways, hitching in snow looking for my children.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
I’m working on the last book I’ll ever write, but then most authors say, “This is the last one” with each last one. I haven’t decided, but the title so far is, “Here’s Your Fucking Card.” Through continuously writing, putting my story in cyber land, my first daughter found me, but we still haven’t met in person. I found my second daughter, but she has an attitude because she was told all her life that I was dead. She sold the house and property I owned when I ran from my abusive husband which was their father.
I found out online that my two sons have died of cocaine overdose and I’ve never met them. I read online that my little sister overdosed. Dad was a Pentecost Oneness Evangelist, a Charlatan. He shot his self in the head in the New Mexico court house.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t think my writing habits are different than any other authors these days considering the computer age and it’s constant advancing. I keep word pad minimized and write when something important needs to be entered. While living on the streets, highways and prisons, I kept a pencil or pen and paper. All my life I’ve been carrying something to write with and on. It started off wanting to tell about my two little girl friends who were shot.
Then I wanted to tell on all the family and strangers who beat and raped my sisters and me and tell on everyone who stole my children.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
The movie, Deliverance made a lasting sickening impression. Hillbillies are like that and it is like that in mountains many years ago, but movies and books exaggerate and make fun of us. I’m in an inbred hillbilly if you haven’t guessed. I had a sick family who alienated me over and over and have now alienated me again for exposing the nasty dirt in our family. Most of which they didn’t know about till I wrote it. I was getting upset to read online in a lot of books, movies, websites, and articles that inbred hillbillies are blue and have horrid defects. I want to debunk the stereotyping. I’m not blue and have no defects. I do like to be bare foot and I wash my overalls to be clean, not to impress city folk. Hillbillies on my side of the holler do make moonshine, grow weed and don’t road kill lesson it’s soft. My dad, being a preacher held a double barrel and married me to an abusive man. The book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” again people who are not an inbred hillbilly writing about us. I’m very honored to have so many interested in inbred hillbillies.
What are you working on now?
Writing to you in your website, kidding. A book I mentioned before which I haven’t decided on the title, but at this point it’s, “Here’s Your Fucking Card.” My last daughter treated me like dirt, turned me into the H.R.S. all the time on fake charges, arm robbed a bank, took my house, and a few other crimes. One time only I got a Mother’s day card she threw at me and said; “Here’s your fucking card.” I still send her money when I have extra. I’ve been sending my first daughter a lot of money and it seems she only writes to me when I send money. My second daughter don’t talk to me at all. All of them have babies and their babies have babies I’ve never met. Thanksgiving and Christmas has come and gone and New Year’s, my B-day, I haven’t heard from any of my children. I haven’t afforded lately to send them money because I’m on disability and don’t get much. I thought I was going to make money on writing and send them money so they will talk to me, but this hasn’t happened.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Like most humans I thought Amazon was going to make me famous and rich. Most things I write end on my site if it doesn’t have anything to do with family. Family threatens to sue me all the time for writing truth. I use naked women in my site to get my point across about narcissist and abuse. There is a difference between a narcissist and a violent abusive person. I was using face-book and Twitter to connect with people, but perverts posting their penis has taken over the cyber world.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Fake stories, fantasy, thrillers, romance, and porn sells good. If you have imagination and talent, go for those genders. Myself, I’ve never seen anything, but reality so making up romance or children’s books that lie to them isn’t my thing. If you have imagination and haven’t destroyed by the reality called life, you will make money. Writing about real things that happened in someone’s life, autobiographies don’t make money.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Don’t let nasty reviewers depress you, they do it for money or rewards, but take what you learn from their review and make your book better.
What are you reading now?
I don’t like to read, but love typing and writing. My last daughter has read most all the huge books with no pictures because I brain washed her while she was growing up by telling her she can escape in the big books. I didn’t know about paragraph structure, sentences, punctuation, and formatting because I left school and home in fourth. Then I met my room-mate I have now who taught all this to me.
What’s next for you as a writer?
My family knocked me down on first try. They put bad reviews on me and constantly threatened to sue me so I changed my game plan to using the nick name dad always called me, “Nellie Cake.” This will make my family mad because I’m grandma’s only name sake and the only sister left of my three remaining brothers and Nellie was grandma’s name. They can’t stop this because my middle name is “Nellie.”
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
I would bring thick ones so I can use the pages to start fires.
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