About
I'm a trainee solicitor working for a criminal law firm in Surrey, England. I have been writing since I was very little and particularly love writing genre fiction. I have several projects in the works, including a horror novel, a science fiction trilogy and a series of children's picture books. My other loves are films and TV shows, making amateur films/trailers/music videos, music, going to gigs, hiking and going to pubs and clubs with mates.
A Dime Is a Sign: Poems of Love and Loss (Feelings Into Words)
Description
<p>A psychic medium once said that if you find a random dime, it is a sign that someone that you have loved and lost is thinking of you.</p><p><strong>A Dime is a Sign Through Time</strong></p><p><em>If you find a dime, </em></p><p><em>You will know that I'm</em></p><p><em>Sending thoughts of love</em></p><p><em>Through the veil of time.</em></p><p> </p><p><em>Ten cents with a silver shine, </em></p><p><em>A sense sent you to help remind</em></p><p><em>That someone who left you behind</em></p><p><em>Is always living in your mind.</em></p><p> </p><p><em>Sending love and vibes, </em></p><p><em>Felt as psychic sighs ...</em></p><p><em>The ones that you miss, </em></p><p><em>Send you a kiss ...</em></p><p> </p><p>Sherrill S. Cannon's second book of poetry contains messages written through the years in poetic form that put feelings into words. As a teacher, many of her poems helped counsel troubled teens and friends.</p><p>There are three sections in the book: Heads, Spinning, and Tails ... (Love & Loss: Coin Toss?). The variety of lyrical poetry forms include free verse, blank verse, haiku, and sonnets, while some are just playing with words!</p><p>Hopefully, this is also a book of healing.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Sherrill S. Cannon, a former teacher and grandmother of ten, is the author of nine acclaimed rhymed children's books, plus a recent award-winning book of poetry <em>(A Penny for Your Thoughts), </em>which together have received 63 national and international book awards since 2011. She also wrote seven published plays for elementary school children that have been performed in over 25 countries. Most of her children's books emphasize consideration for others. Married for 58 years, she and her spouse are now retired, live in Pennsylvania, and travel in their RV from coast to coast, spending time with their children and grandchildren, and sharing her books along the way!</p><p> </p>
Story Behind The Book
"The Pendulum Swings" has quite a long history as I have been writing it for 10 years and it incorporates ideas I had from years before that. So I feel like I know these characters very well now! When I was little I was always writing about wizards and witches and monsters and it's all culminated in this. It began as a trilogy, but after writing the trilogy at university, I realized it would work better as a single book (though I haven't ruled out a sequel!)
I find fantasy can be both the easiest thing to write, because there are no rules and you can make it all up as you go along, and the hardest thing to write, because you can get to a point where you run out of imagination! To KEEP making up wacky names, interesting places and original monsters can be a challenge! It is the most fun though because it is pure escapism to write fantasy - and to read it - because it has nothing to do with the real world.
I hope you all enjoy the world I have created in "The Pendulum Swings"!
