Thirty-four-year old social worker, Kacee Robinson, runs a non-profit agency helping women and children move away from bad situations.
Welcome to the April 9th stop on the blog tour for The Measure of Enough by Deonna Kay with Goddess Fish Promotions. Be sure to follow the rest of the tour for spotlights, reviews, more guest posts, and a giveaway! More on that at the end of this post.
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Author Guest Post
The biggest tip I can give is to keep writing. Being successful takes a great deal of perseverance and grit, even amidst bouts of frustration. Keeping your goal in mind and the end project in sight will surely serve you well and allow you to complete the project. The other suggestion I have is to write every day, without fail. Even on days you don’t feel like you have it in you, write something. Getting in the habit and staying in the habit pays off in the end. Happy writing!
About the Book
The Measure of Enough
by Deonna Kay
Genre: Psychological Fiction/Women’s Fiction
Thirty-four-year old social worker, Kacee Robinson, runs a non-profit agency helping women and children move away from bad situations. Kacee moved away from her own bad situation years ago and pledged never to return to her hometown of Glendale, Texas, or to the mother who abandoned her right smack in the middle of her hateful pre-adolescent years—just when she needed her most.
Now it is Kacee’s mother who needs something from her. With the entire town rallying behind the cry, Kacee has a decision to make. She can put aside everything she thought she ever knew about this woman who made a feeble attempt at raising her, return to the town, and conduct the necessary business like the grown-up professional she knows she is. Or she can stand her ground, continuing to struggle with the nagging questions and residual scars of her childhood.
Before she can make a decision, Kacee fears her life may be in danger and a rapid turn of events prompts resolutions that cannot be undone, setting into motion a slide of events as slick as the oil-engendered family from which Kacee was born.
The echoes of the past reach out to her while in Glendale, grabbing on and not letting go as they wind her down a country road through pages of her mother’s journals and twisting her into an unexpected new fate from which she will never be the same.
Excerpt
Therapy and I have a love/hate relationship. The battle runs way down deep, growing in the pit of my stomach like some putrid, perverse fungus. After each session I’d tell myself it was useless and that it wasn’t going anywhere, yet some unknown magnetic force drew me back for the following week’s opportunity to pick apart my pitiful life and “get to the bottom” of the bane of my misery.
The answers to my own questions—those which have thrown me into therapy for half of my life—just might be hidden in Glendale. The thought turned over in my mind after Edna’s phone call–-even before I spoke it aloud to Margaret.
Margaret’s lobby walls were bare, save for the single faded watercolor painting of a man holding a young girl’s hand and wading through an empty wheat field. You’d think she’d opt for something a bit livelier. After all, most folks come to visit her trying to find a recipe for that life goulash they managed to dang near destroy on their own.
About the Author
Deonna Kay is a native Texan, the proud mom of a young adult daughter, an over-sized dog, and the fuzziest cat you’ve ever seen. Her passion of writing began as a child and has carried over into her adult life. She is a business owner and loves to travel, particularly to Disney World. If you enjoyed THE MEASURE OF ENOUGH, please visit the author on her website to follow her future endeavors and updates
Giveaway Alert!
Deonna Kay will be awarding a $15 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour, and a $15 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn host.
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I liked the excerpt.
The blurb and excerpt sound great.
I would enjoy reading this book. The blurb sounds really interesting.
The cover art looks great. I enjoyed reading the excerpt. Sounds like a story I would enjoy reading.
Do you have a writing routine or do you just wait for inspiration to strike?
Thanks for the great blurb/excerpt. The book sounds intriguing.
This sounds like a really interesting book.
Congratulations on your book.