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I am fortunate to have been trained by one the top ten writing teachers in the US, the lateLeonard Bishop, and author of Dare to be a Great Writer. I owe my love of writing to him.

How The Water Falls is my second novel. Although I’ve been writing since my childhood, I have a BA in history. I love studying history as much as wanting to evoke stories. I like to believe that after decades worth of introspection we have learned more wisely than something that happened yesterday, because what happened yesterday affects how we live today.

Why South Africa? I live in the Midwest and grew-up in a medium size town where cultural diversity is a bit underdeveloped. My reason is simple: I don’t want to continue to live in a conical world. Consciousness does not develop and mature by existing in a frozen pond. That’s why I love history: To learn. To question. To redeem our humanity. Submitting to a moment in time allows us to remember, or to muse even, over our society’s past. Although writing can educate as well as entertain, yet what makes art incredibly amazing, to that of paintings, photographs, and music, it transposes emotion into another form of humanity, and therefore, it is our humanity which keeps all of us striving for an improved future.

My husband and I once owned a music store, a pizza delivery business, and several internet businesses. I also have dabbled with real estate and am grateful I got the heck out right before the crash! Sadly, history tends to repeat itself in important ways. Currently my family continues to live outside of Kansas City and will always have roots tied to Kansas.

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What if you treated others the way you’d like to be treated? If everyone did that, what kind of world could there be? Please join the children’s quest to discover how to follow the Golden Rule and to share it with others. This coloring book version of Sherrill S. Cannon’s best-selling children’s story, The Golden Rule, allows kids to enjoy reading in rhyme, as well as illustrating their own version of how children can help us be kind to each other.

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I love stories that deal with struggle for freedom, searching for identity and purpose, and have some sort of message that forces you to contemplate. John Steinbeck best made the claim: “The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man’s proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.” And within the same context, he also wrote, “I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” If a person is to become socially conscious as a means to understand the world around oneself, then exploring the past is a good way to start. For me, it began with the movie, Cry Freedom, which was based on the friendship between Donald Woods and Steve Bike. The inhumanity shown in the movie left me horrified and emotionally displaced. I was only fourteen. Then, years later, I came across a documentary, the name I don’t remember because I missed the beginning, about a white South African couple who had nothing in common. The wife was a liberal reporter, and the husband was a former army personal and police officer who had been fired as a scapegoat for apartheid’s problems. They struggled with understanding each other’s past. The other inspirations came from the book Kaffir Boy and A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid. In dealing with how to come to terms with violence and poverty, these two books opened up a world history books don’t touch. I’ve learned that apartheid was entirely more convoluted than I could wrap my head around. It was insane. And while trying to reinterpret it as I wrote in fiction form was the greatest puzzle I had yet put together. Because the system was so corrupted, it wasn’t as difficult to establish a plot. Each character had a purpose to fulfill and fitted naturally according to the development of the story. Although I have it marketed as a thriller, sub genre of psychological, historical, and political, despite of its backdrop, the story is about people and how they relate to one another. It’s an intense journey that does have moments of humor and tenderness. This book will leave a haunting impression, and yet, still inspires you with a sense of hope. For those who never really understood what had happened during that period will at least have an inclination of why the system was so evil, and how it affected everyone, both black and white. If change is going to be resurrected, there needs to be an ambition of hope.

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“[T]his is such a powerful and moving story that I couldn’t put it down and it’s left a haunting impression on me that will stay with me for quite some time.” Crystal Crichlow, writer, www.BookExplosions.com FROM GOODREADS <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"> "Author K. P. Kollenborn brings us this captivating tale that interweaves fiction and fact for a horrifying look at how South Africa was affected by the apartheid. " <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/25343616-raymy">Raymy</a> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"> "I like this book because it makes me aware of what's happening in the real word and I would like to think that anybody can make a difference, no matter how small that might be if we care enough and do something about it. I highly recommend it to everybody! Thumbs up!" <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/24794343-ioan-draniciar">Ioan Draniciar</a> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"> "I think that it did reflect the hope brought by the end of apartheid, without compromising the reality of trying to rebuild a country that endured through such internal strife." <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/20863397-elizabeth-ehlen">Elizabeth Ehlen</a> </li> </ul>FROM AMAZON <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"> "The writer holds nothing back, and at no point does she try to tone down any of the atrocities. This is a brutally honest book, that leaves the reader absolutely riveted from the first page to the last." <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A2DRJZ3MOEXLIN/ref=cm_cr_dp_pdp">Ranger</a> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;"> "How the Water Falls is a very unique book. I can say truthfully that I haven't read one like this in a long time…. I am usually able to figure out the ending of a thriller, but not this time. It even left me thinking about it after I finished it.” <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A107QCQSFVT6VN/ref=cm_cr_dp_pdp">Peter Mckinsey</a> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;"> “What a very deeply moving story. This is the kind of story that stays with you long after you have finished reading it. An engaging story that will keep you turning the pages, highly recommended.” <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/AXNPRFZJVH1T/ref=cm_cr_dp_pdp">PatM99</a> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"> “Very inspiring book that follows two women and their point of view through the apartheid. Part educational and part thrill ride.” <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A952LJOXPLTVL/ref=cm_cr_dp_pdp">K. Allen</a> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"> “A thriller full of suspenseful action and mystery, and the characters are well developed. Highly recommended.” <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/ALNFONS4J6VU3/ref=cm_cr_dp_pdp">Alexis C.</a> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"> “How the Water Falls is a complex and multicultural thriller full of mystery and nuance. This novel is certainly political and ethically explorative, but it doesn't suffer from its big concepts making it too lofty and inaccessible - inarguably, How the Water Falls is about people. Highly recommended.” <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A1YBM3LBZ07QQS/ref=cm_cr_dp_pdp">Chloe Halston</a> </li> </ul>

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