My Home, Oxford Orphanage, Oxford, NC

Well, it is almost time for "Always an Orphan to reach the shelves in book stores. I am getting excited beyond words because this is the story about me growing up at Oxford Orphanage and learning what the word "LOVE" means. I have so many brothers and sisters and I could never count them all. They are special in every way. I wish I could go up to Oxford today and park my car on the street and run all around the grounds on the front lawn. What a beautiful place God gave us to live and grow up to care for ourselves.


You can find the book after May 31st on the shelves of Target and you can order it from Amazon. I have tried to be as honest as I could be about the writing of my life. I cried a bucket full of tears when I started the book because my family didn't want my sister, Jo Ann Adams, and me. He was more interested in buying farms to grow crops. Papa was our grandfather and after our grandmother died, he wanted to get rid of us.


I love my home and I wanted to share this story to others who have no idea what an orphanage is like. It was the best of all homes I could have lived.

God gave someone special the opportunity to build homes for orphans to live and learn a trade or go to college. That person has now given so many orphans the opportunity to grow and become citizens of our great nation, United States.

COMPOSING A STORY

I have just finished my third book and staring on the fourth. I have published one book "Grains of Sand" and I did it on my own. Now my second book has been edited by an editor who decided to work with me at the South Carolina Workshop in October, 2007.

My second book is called "Branches of Life" and it is considered a women's suspense. I know it is good according to my editor but I have yet to get an agent to gamble on me. I will not give up until I have found someone willing to work with a novice at the tender age of seventy three. Yes, I said (73), that is my age and I'm proud of it.

The story is about a drug lord becoming irate because the building he uses for distribution of drugs has been bought for the purpose of making women's clothing. He decides to kill the owner of the building and does so on the man's honeymoon.

The main character is a woman who grew up in an orphanage and is willing to make designing her livelihood. She is kidnapped and the drug lord is asking for ten million dollars for her return. Do you think he will let her go? Do you think the drug lord will be killed?

There are so many twists and turns in the story, making it intense. What would you do if you were threatened by a drug lord? Would it make you run or would you stay, hoping things will get better?

I know there is someone wanting to help me with this book. I will not give up until I have found an agent willing to work with me.