Friday with Friends! An Author you’ll be dying to meet!
Friday with Friends.
Different kinds of things connect us.
For example, I have friends in different pockets of my life: writing, book lovers, social outings, music, neighbors, dog lovers, foodies, and like-minded spiritual people. Some of them know each other, but not all. Some of my writing friends are not dog lovers. They’re cat people. Or no-pet people. However, that doesn’t diminish the connection we share about writing, reading, and books.
Then there are the folks that I only know virtually. People on Twitter, Facebook, and some forums. The friend I want you to meet is an author. She’s Mississippi born, like me.
Janet Taylor-Perry
Please meet Janet PerryThe number thirteen must have had the utmost importance to our founding fathers. There were thirteen original colonies, and there are still thirteen stripes on our flag. The Great Seal of the United States is covered with the number thirteen. Some people say that is because so many of our founding fathers were Free Masons, and there are thirteen levels of Free Masonry. Very few achieve the thirteenth level of Grand Master, so that part could be true. They might have considered thirteen to be achieving the superlative.
Let’s look at the Great Seal to see how important thirteen is to it. Take it out dollar, and let’s look at the Great Seal on the back.
Let’s first examine the right side with the eagle on it. Let’s work from top to bottom. Count the stars above the eagle’s head. There are thirteen. Next, count the letters in E Pluribus Unum. Again, there are thirteen. Now, let’s examine the shield. If you can see well enough to count the horizontal stripes, there are thirteen. I know there are thirteen vertical stripes. Now, count the leaves on the olive branch and the arrows in each talon. There are thirteen leaves and thirteen arrows.
Now, let’s look at the other side. Annuit Coeptus contains thirteen letters. Last, there are thirteen levels of the pyramid, the thirteenth being the top or the eye. This leads back to the Free Masons as the pyramid and the eye as the superlative being their symbols and the laying of the foundation of our country. This also takes us back to the Egyptians and the first superstition about thirteen with the highest level being immortality. Where are the Great Pyramids found? Egypt.
Lucky Thirteen
What’s my book Lucky Thirteen about? Read on…Twelve women are dead, and a thirteenth is missing. Detective Ray Reynolds races time to catch a killer. Nothing ties the victims together, except the way in which they died. What Ray discovers blows him away as the battle takes on a supernatural element. There’s just one small catch — evidence points to Ray as the murderer.
From a small town in Mississippi, Larkin Sloan is a dynamic young teacher in the equally small town of Eau Bouease, Louisiana. Abducted, she foregoes common sense and rational behavior in order to stay alive and not become the thirteenth victim of a serial killer.
My second book, Heartless is in paperback and eBook.
Heartless
From the author of the critically acclaimed Pirates’ Alley Faulkner Wisdom semi-finalist, Lucky Thirteen, comes the second book in The Raiford Chronicles.
Police Chief Ray Reynolds did not think there could be a more brutal, heartless killer than Latrice Descartes whom he had encountered fourteen years earlier. His thirteenth wedding anniversary dinner is interrupted by one of his detectives to tell him an old married acquaintance, who also happens to be a United States Senator, has been found murdered in the presence of a much younger woman and that both are missing their hearts.
Ray becomes embroiled in another murder mystery that touches even closer to him than the one involving Latrice Descartes.
And Excerpt from Heartless:
Parker laughed. “Thank you, Larkin. Nobody has ever been this nice to me.”
“It has nothing to do with me, Parker. It has to do with my Savior.”
“I don’t understand.”
“You see, I’m just as sinful as the people who have hurt you. The only difference is that I’ve asked Jesus to live inside of me, in my spirit, and to forgive me for all the sinful things I ever have done or ever will do. When we ask Him for that, He’ll do it. Only then, can we do anything really good in and of itself.”
“I’ve been a pretty bad kid.”
Larkin took Parker’s hand. “That’s why Jesus lived a perfect, sinless life, died on the cross, and rose from the dead. If we trust in His work, then, we’re forgiven. That doesn’t mean we’re perfect.”
He nodded. “I like the sound of that. Does Ray believe that, too?”
“Yes.”
“He still gets mad pretty easily.”
“Yes.” She grinned. “Like I said, not perfect, just forgiven.”
More about me:
I’m native of Laurel, Mississippi, a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi with a BS in psychology, Belhaven University with a Master of Arts in teaching, and gifted certification from Mississippi College, an author, editor, and educator in English, social studies, and gifted. I currently teach life skills in a variety of areas with Goodwill Industries of Mississippi.
Memberships include Kappa Delta Epsilon, Red Dog Writers, Gulf Coast Writers’ Association, The Mississippi Writers Guild, and TheNextBigWriter.com.
The first installment of The Raiford Chronicles, Lucky Thirteen, can be found on Amazon for both Kindle and in paperback, the second book in the series, Heartless, was released for both avenues on Valentine’s Day, 2014. I cannot claim to write a pure genre, and I do not write “Christian” literature, but I always have a strong Christian character and the message of salvation is found in every story I write.
Inspiration comes through life experiences. I’m the mother of five and an avid reader who loves anything historical from antique cars to old cemeteries. I’m on Facebook @ Author Janet Taylor-Perry and @ amazon.com/author/janettaylorperry.
Here’s where you can find my books:
Lucky Thirteen:
http://www.amazon.com/Lucky-Thirteen-...
Heartless:
http://www.amazon.com/Heartless-Raifo...
I hope you enjoyed meeting Janet. If you have any questions, please let her know.
Happy Reading!
Linda Joyce
www.linda-joyce.com
