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Hometown: Oak Park, Illinois
Current Residency: Atlanta, Georgia
Degree: Bachelor of Arts, Business Communication
Writer: Published articles can be found online and in many print publications such as: Black Pearls Magazine, SwagHer Magazine, Troy Estefan Magazine, and many more.
Blogger: Community blogger for 11Alive.com & Patch, providing details on celebrity and author events for Metro Atlanta areas.
Awards & Literary Achievements: "Color Me Jazzmyne" was awarded by the Sankofa Literary Society Review, as one of the Top 100 Books-1st Quarter 2010. It was also nominated as the 2010 Book-of-Year by AAMBC (African Americans on the Move Book Club Literary Awards). "My Father's Colors" received the 2011 USA Best Book Finalist Award. "Strings of Color" was awarded the 2012 USA BEst Book Finalist Award for General Fiction.
Print: Atlanta Skirt! Magazine, as one of Atlanta's top 9 to 5 Women in Business, Cross Roads News, Sync Weekly and the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, just to name a few.
Radio: The Award-Wining Morning show, Am 1530 KCMN with Tron Simpson, The Source, 560 Am-KLZ on The Experience Pros Show, Podio Rackets and a host of others.
TV: "My Father's Colors" has been seen on the Oprah Winfrey Network and Ovation Network.
Community: As a child abuse prevention advocate,I have worked with the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy, contributing 15% of the proceeds from "Color Me Jazzmyne" during an April Campaign for National Child Abuse Prevention Month in 2010.
Speaker: As a motivational and inspirational speaker, I deliver an engaging workshop for young adults titled, "Page Forward: Become a Plan 'A' Author." In March 2011, I taught this workshop to the Destiny's Daughters of Promise. Here is what they had to say: "We are honored that you took time to do a presentation for Destiny's Daughters of Promise. The information you presented was timely and relevant and it will help us prepare these teens for a successful future. Thank you for helping us in our endeavor to bring about a positive change in the lives of these girls."
Social Media Expert: I speak Social Media! Today, any aspiring author must learn how to use social media such as Facebook and Twitter to 'Publish' themselves even before they publish their book! During this presentation I provide 5 quick and easy ways to sell 100 books and how to build a solid author platform of avid readers.
<p><strong><em>A tragic warrior lost in two worlds... Which one will he choose?</em></strong></p><p>The war in Iraq ended for Freddie when an IED explosion left his mind and body shattered. Once a skilled gamer as well as a capable soldier, he's now a broken warrior, emerging from a medically induced coma to discover he's inhabiting two separate realities.</p><p>The first is his waking world of pain, family trials, and remorse—and slow rehabilitation through the tender care of Becky, his physical therapist. The second is a dark fantasy realm of quests, demons, and magic, which Freddie enters when he sleeps. The lines soon blur for Freddie, not just caught between two worlds, but lost within himself.</p><p>Is he Lieutenant Freddie Williams, a leader of men, a proud officer in the US Army who has suffered such egregious injury and loss? Or is he Frederick, Prince of Stormwind, who must make sense of his horrific visions in order to save his embattled kingdom from the monstrous Horde, his only solace the beautiful gardener, Rebecca, whose gentle words calm the storms in his soul.</p><p>In the conscious world, the severely wounded vet faces a strangely similar and equally perilous mission to that of the prince—a journey along a dark road, haunted by demons of guilt and memory. Can he let patient, loving Becky into his damaged and shuttered heart? It may be his only way back from Hell.</p>
Color Me Jazzmyne is the debut book for Marian L. Thomas. It was a book, 20 years in the making. It delivers heartache, pain, sorrow, joy, happiness and drama. It is a piece of the author, more than the pages can relate.