This is one of my stops during the two month tour
for The Little Girl Inside: Owning
My
Role in My Own Pain by Tonya Barbee. This virtual book tour is organized by
Write Now Literary Book Tours. This tour runs October & November. Follow the tour
Book Title: The Little Girl
Inside: Owning My Role in My Own Pain
ASIN: B00VJFVN5Q
ISBN-10: 0692564802
ISBN-13: 978-0692564806
Genre: Non-Fiction
Tonya Barbee
About The Author
TONYA BARBEE is a novelist
and aspiring playwright. Her most recent published work is titled, The Little
Girl Inside Owning My Role in My Own Pain. She is currently working on another
project that complements this book. Tonya grew up in Durham, NC, a family of
four daughters and one son. Her father, Woodrow served his country for twenty
years as an Army officer, retired then taught ROTC for another twenty years and
her mother, Doris, a college administrator. She is a proud 1980 graduate of
Frank W. Ballou High School in Washington, DC. She worked in operations and
management for Department of Agriculture for twenty years. For the past ten
years, she’s worked as a project manager for Department of Defense in
Washington, DC. She studied at National-Louis University where she earned her
Masters in Business Administration in 2009.
Although she’s worked her
way up the ladder in the federal government, she had no idea she would end up
writing professionally however she has always enjoyed sharing her personal life
through story telling with those she thought she could help. Then something
clicked. As she writes, she is in hopes that her work reaches her readers that
have been through something and have contemplated giving up. Her goal is to
enable her readers to become empowered to keep moving forward to accomplish
their dreams no matter what challenges they have been faced with.
Tonya resides in Bowie, MD
with two of her youngest children, Christian and Zachary. Her eldest two,
Andrew and Jessica left the nest years ago and have blessed her with seven
beautiful grand kids.
About This Book
The Little Girl Inside is a
prolific story of triumph and discovery of inner peace. With each page, the
reader will be captivated while the author uses the writing pen as a sowing
tool-seaming a garment of praise, banner of victory and fabric of joy. With
imaginative color, the book is a perfectly designed combination of patterns
expressing the maturation of a woman.
A uniquely designed
transparent jewel every woman should own in her jewelry box. The Little Girl
Inside is a ministry resource tool for women in search for transparency in the
human heart. The author shows us how to overcome the inner battle of doing the
right thing the wrong way, going from finding love in the wrong places to
allowing love to be revealed in the right time and in the right place.
"I made room for Sir
Intellectual to bring what I thought were the remainder of hi things. I also
made room on my health insurance policy just in case he didn't have any. Too
bad it didn't occur to me to ask him. My ability to confront was non-existent.
I decided not to wait until I returned to work to handle it. I contacted my
carrier and updated my policy to include my new husband. The whole time I felt
sad that he wasn't contacting his carrier to include me. I had a husband,
though what caliber of husband, I wasn't sure. Sometimes I wanted to slap
myself for being so needy that I overlooked important things and ignored flags,
bells, and whistles."
How did you sale your first book?
I was so excited! My
coworker and friend Mary would ask me the status of my book at least once a
week and the last time she asked me I surprised her by showing her a copy of
the book. I had brought in several to
show to my coworkers. She was more
excited than I was. She took the book, examined the cover, which she said was
so me, and then she started flipping through it, and began to read excerpts
from the book. She beamed with so much
pride. She was acting like a mother! She
made me feel bashful because she just kept beaming. She said she never had a coworker that wasn’t
a professor that wrote a book. After all
the praises and the fact she was a friend, I wasn’t comfortable selling it to
her so I told her, “Here, it’s yours.”
She told me no and gave me $15! I was so excited to get my first payment
in cash too. She works in the library
too so on top of standing in front of the new books that came in; she and I
took a picture together. A few weeks
later she made sure her office catalogued the book for me so now, it’s
available to read in the library where I work as well! That too was a big deal
because that particular library only catalogues books written by the subject
matter experts and other faculty members. It’s a prestigious military,
educational institution and it’s an honor to have my book available. It’s a great feeling to have supportive
friends whom were there from the very beginning. Not only did she read it, she gave it to her
daughter to read who is still asking for the sequel. I treasure that picture of my first purchase
with my most encouraging coworker and friend.
Social Media Contacts
Website:
http://www.iamstillarose.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/iamstillarose
Purchase Links
Tour hosted by Write Now Literary
To the author... This was a good read. Thank you so much for sharing!
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