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Lavinia Thompson

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Canada

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http://laviniathompsonauthor.wordpress.com/

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Poetry, Mystery & Thrillers

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My mother, John Lennon

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April 2011

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I am a 22 year-old hippie who is just discovering what life really is. My heart is entrenched in novel writing. I am pursuing a dream of being a full-time novelist. It's the beginning of a journey that I have always dreamed of. I have risen from a dark childhood of domestic violence. I faced that monster in my closet and am now writing about it. I watched my mother be tortured for almost ten years. I stood before the remnants of the house her ex burned down in a drunken rage. I lived with the aftermaths and the damage it did in the years that followed. Now, I am chasing dreams and living my life to the fullest.Through my writing I want to be an advocate for domestic violence and child abuse, to speak out and be a voice. I am engaged to a wo...more I am a 22 year-old hippie who is just discovering what life really is. My heart is entrenched in novel writing. I am pursuing a dream of being a full-time novelist. It's the beginning of a journey that I have always dreamed of. I have risen from a dark childhood of domestic violence. I faced that monster in my closet and am now writing about it. I watched my mother be tortured for almost ten years. I stood before the remnants of the house her ex burned down in a drunken rage. I lived with the aftermaths and the damage it did in the years that followed. Now, I am chasing dreams and living my life to the fullest.Through my writing I want to be an advocate for domestic violence and child abuse, to speak out and be a voice. I am engaged to a wonderful man I met while working on the college newspaper. I am a journalism grad, a journalist, a sister younger and older, a daughter to a survivor of a mother and my angel daddy, a niece and a soon-to-be wife.

I have been writing since I could put a pencil to paper it seems. My first writings were short stories rewriting fairy tales in ways I envisioned them to play out. Poetry was something that intrigued me in junior high school. An interest in Shakespeare came in high school when I attended an outreach school in grades 11 and 12. I was permitted to study on my own and got to drift around with different areas on top of the curriculum already in place. Shakespeare and forensics became the two main things I studied there. It was through Shakespeare's MacBeth and an essay assignment that I got interested in the witch hunts and trials of the 16th and 17th centuries, igniting the idea for the Spellbound series.

In 2011, I set a goal. After graduating from college, I set out to publish two of my books. One is my poetry book about domestic violence and child abuse, "She Wasn't Allowed to Giggle" and the other is the first in a series, "Spellbound by Fire." My poetry book was self-published back in September and "Spellbound" was published in December.

With that goal out of the way, I set my sights once again on my journalism career while trying to make it big with publishing my books. I am living the dream, so to speak, out on the West Coast working at a community newspaper after a year of trudging through the struggle of job hunting in the small journalism job market. My ultimate dream? Crime reporter. Once I have some experience in general reporting, I want to climb into crime reporting. Murders and all! (less)

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Update ~ “She Wasn’t Allowed to Giggle” IN PRINT!

A short announcement…

As I have been working hard to do in the past few months, I have finally released my poetry book, “She Wasn’t Allowed to Giggle” in its print edition. It is available right now on CreateSpace athttps://www.createspace.com/3700964for $8.00 and will be available on Amazon and other sites in about a week or so!

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Books by Lavinia Thompson

Average rating: 4.58 · 12 ratings · 9 reviews · 4 distinct works

	She Wasn't Allowed to Giggle 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Spellbound by Fire (Spellbound, #1) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Travis 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Spellbound by the Sword (Spellbound, #2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:

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Spellbound (2 books)
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I rated this a five-star book as I have with the rest of this series. Rebecca Forster has written a fabulous series with Josie Bates. Characters are believable, Bates' cases are believable but have many underlying plots, twists and turns. After swear...more
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