About
I am an author of Literary Mainstream Fiction. My debut novel, The Secret of Lies, was released in June, 2011,
I grew up in a small town in Dutchess County, New York, the third of five children. Although I started my first novel in 4th grade, I didn't recognize what would eventually become a lifelong passion until several years later as I found my thoughts routinely wandering off to inhabit imagined places - spinning elaborate tales curiously populated by ever-changing collections of mostly peculiar characters that seemed to arrive from nowhere, yet remained, willing to live within my fictitious worlds.
It would be impossible to determine or otherwise explain where the intense obsession to draw pictures and unreel emotion with words on paper originates from, just as it would be unfathomable to ever abandon. It is simply there, deep, unquenchable, eternal.
Influences are everywhere and in abundance - people I've known over a lifetime, as well as those who have merely crossed my path and gone, yet touched in such a way to remain memorable. Places I've been or merely absorbed - fallen into through the pull of a photograph or description in a book. Experiences of love, loss, injury, joy, and impossible tragedy. Events in our everyday world that sink so deeply they cannot be discarded from thought or memory. And more than any single thing, my Divine Creator who inspires me in all things - not simply with the desire to create, but the faith to pursue and persevere for as long as it takes.
My Little Angel Coloring Book
Description
<p>Does your child have a Guardian Angel?</p><p>Share a day in the life of a little girl whose tiny guardian angel named Angela sits on her shoulder to keep the child safe and guide her through the day.</p><p>Her activities include getting the girl ready for school, crossing the street, being polite and kind to friends, learning her lessons, fastening her seatbelt while traveling, being aware of stranger-danger, praying for her pets, and reminding her constantly that she is loved.</p><p>Once again social values are emphasized in this latest illustrated children's coloring book by award-winning author Sherrill S. Cannon. This is the author's third rhyming children's coloring book.</p><p>Meet many classroom friends from the author's previous books, as My Little Angel Angela guides this child throughout her day.</p><p>The author says, "This book is dedicated to our oldest son, who lost his battle with cancer in August 2021. He is my Special Angel."</p><p><strong>About The Author:</strong> Sherrill S. Cannon is the author of 10 award-winning children's books that have won nearly 100 awards (and counting), including Santa's Birthday Gift, Peter and the Whimper-Whineys, The Magic Word, Gimme-Jimmy, Manner-Man, My Fingerpaint Masterpiece, Mice & Spiders & Webs...Oh My!, The Golden Rule, My Little Angel and David's ADHD, as well as two award-winning poetry books, A Penny for Your Thoughts, and A Dime is a Sign. Her other two coloring books are Peter and the Whimper-Whineys Coloring Book and The Golden Rule Coloring Book. She is also a playwright, with seven published and internationally performed plays for elementary school children. A former teacher, the author's goal in each of her books is to teach good manners as well as caring for others.</p>
Story Behind The Book
It was really the most innocent thing, my motivation to sit down and start writing this book, not at all profound or remarkable and yet it became a twenty year obsession over an intense and rocky highway. I clearly recall standing at the kitchen sink on a late summer afternoon washing dishes and staring out the window at nothing in particular, when this little seed of an idea came rolling through my head, and I found myself wondering what it would be like for someone to just get up and walk out the door - not tell anyone, or take anything, just walk away from their entire life and start-over on a new page somewhere else. And then what circumstance or event in a person's life would compel them to such drastic action. That was it. I had no characters, no
... brilliantly written.
Whispering Winds Book Review
Named BOOK OF THE MONTH at FemmeVip.com, October 2010:
Barbara Forte Abate resolves the conflict and does not leave the readers hanging...The author brought everything to life and made you feel you were a part of the family. The dialogue was enjoyable and true to life. The words were descriptive and continued to propel the story forward.
Barbara Forte Abate has written a creative, entertaining story in The Secret of Lies, which makes any reader understand the hidden secrets in any family.
J.Andrew, Book Pleasures
Barbara Forte Abate has such a gift for bringing to life real relationships between ordinary people that she creates an ongoing challenge to her readers by beginning her book with the lowest point of her character’s life: being drawn to run away and face her inner demons alone...
Barbara Forte Abate is a sensitive writer who knows that there are no neutral observers in a dysfunctional family...
For The Love of Reading Book Review plan, no plot ideas. Just that one little thought that once I started writing it, took off at a gallop. It became so many things I hadn't anticipated when I started.
Reviews
<div class="data_field">... brilliantly written.<br />Whispering Winds Book Review<br /><br />Named BOOK OF THE MONTH at FemmeVip.com, October 2010:<br />Barbara
Forte Abate resolves the conflict and does not leave the readers
hanging...The author brought everything to life and made you feel you
were a part of the family. The dialogue was enjoyable and true to life.
The words were descriptive and continued to propel the story forward. <br />Barbara
Forte Abate has written a creative, entertaining story in The Secret of
Lies, which makes any reader understand the hidden secrets in any
family.<br />J.Andrew, Book Pleasures<br /><br />Barbara Forte Abate has such a
gift for bringing to life real relationships between ordinary people
that she creates an ongoing challenge to her readers by beginning her
book with the lowest point of her character’s life: being drawn to run
away and face her inner demons alone...<br />Barbara Forte Abate is a sensitive writer who knows that there are no neutral observers in a dysfunctional family...<br />For The Love of Reading Book Review </div>
