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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>Emerging from the long shadow cast by his formidable father, Harold Godwineson showed himself to be a worthy successor to the Earldom of Wessex. In the following twelve years, he became the King's most trusted advisor, practically taking the reins of government into his own hands. And on Edward the Confessor's death, Harold Godwineson mounted the throne—the first king of England not of royal blood. Yet Harold was only a man, and his rise in fortune was not blameless. Like any person aspiring to power, he made choices he wasn't particularly proud of. Unfortunately, those closest to him sometimes paid the price of his fame.<br /><br />This is a story of Godwine's family as told from the viewpoint of Harold and his younger brothers. Queen Editha, known for her Vita Ædwardi Regis, originally commissioned a work to memorialize the deeds of her family, but after the Conquest historians tell us she abandoned this project and concentrated on her husband, the less dangerous subject. In THE SONS OF GODWINE and FATAL RIVALRY, I am telling the story as it might have survived had she collected and passed on the memoirs of her tragic brothers.<br /><br />This book is part two of The Last Great Saxon Earls series. Book one, GODWINE KINGMAKER, depicted the rise and fall of the first Earl of Wessex who came to power under Canute and rose to preeminence at the beginning of Edward the Confessor's reign. Unfortunately, Godwine's misguided efforts to champion his eldest son Swegn recoiled on the whole family, contributing to their outlawry and Queen Editha's disgrace. Their exile only lasted one year and they returned victorious to London, though it was obvious that Harold's career was just beginning as his father's journey was coming to an end.<br /><br />Harold's siblings were all overshadowed by their famous brother; in their memoirs we see remarks tinged sometimes with admiration, sometimes with skepticism, and in Tostig's case, with jealousy. We see a Harold who is ambitious, self-assured, sometimes egocentric, imperfect, yet heroic. His own story is all about Harold, but his brothers see things a little differently. Throughout, their observations are purely subjective, and witnessing events through their eyes gives us an insider’s perspective.<br /><br />Harold was his mother's favorite, confident enough to rise above petty sibling rivalry but Tostig, next in line, was not so lucky. Harold would have been surprised by Tostig's vindictiveness, if he had ever given his brother a second thought. And that was the problem. Tostig's love/hate relationship with Harold would eventually destroy everything they worked for, leaving the country open to foreign conquest. This subplot comes to a crisis in book three of the series, FATAL RIVALRY.</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.