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Lisa Thomas

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August 2018

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Author of "Unprecedented Times" part one of a trilogy. A COVID-fiction story, raising money for a COVID charity. Also a mom of 3, a talentless musician and... fill in the blank.

BACKGROUND:
I am a mother to three wonderful children and I work as a self-employed content writer. While I love my job, my dream has always been to write a book I can be proud to put my name on. As a child, my biggest hobbies were reading/writing, and playing music, all of which allowed me to escape reality. I had two childhood dreams, to become an author and to write a song that made people happy. But both felt like pipe-dreams, I lacked in confidence and feared failure. I’ve never had faith in my writing skills or musical abilities, so I never really tried to make Author of "Unprecedented Times" part one of a trilogy. A COVID-fiction story, raising money for a COVID charity. Also a mom of 3, a talentless musician and... fill in the blank.

BACKGROUND:
I am a mother to three wonderful children and I work as a self-employed content writer. While I love my job, my dream has always been to write a book I can be proud to put my name on. As a child, my biggest hobbies were reading/writing, and playing music, all of which allowed me to escape reality. I had two childhood dreams, to become an author and to write a song that made people happy. But both felt like pipe-dreams, I lacked in confidence and feared failure. I’ve never had faith in my writing skills or musical abilities, so I never really tried to make either a reality. Then, my daughter told me she wanted to become a singer and asked me if that was something I’d do, I said “no, I’m not brave enough”, she decided she wasn’t brave enough to pursue her dream either. That’s when I realised my lack of confidence was affecting my kids as much as it was me, and that’s when I decided to step out of my comfort zone.

BOOK
I had the idea for my book at the start of January, before the pandemic had actually become a pandemic. I began researching and planning at the start of Feb 2020 and started writing my book at the end of March. I wanted to do more during the pandemic to help, I wanted to volunteer, but being self-employed and having three children (one of which was a new born) as well as being a high-risk person myself, made volunteering almost impossible.

So, I decided to write my book and raise money for a COVID charity through book sales. My way of giving back. The aims of my book wasn’t just to raise money. I also wanted to freeze time, to create something that future generations could read that would make them understand the reality of this pandemic, after all, it’s history in the making. So, I have included lots of facts, figures and research from the pandemic, all true and all referenced.

I also wanted to show future generations how this pandemic has bought the global community together and to remind them of the wonderful things we can achieve together when we don’t let things like race, religion, social class etc. get in the way. When we see each other as equals.

One of the themes in my book is love, in the many forms it comes in, from romantic love to family love, to community love. I wanted to remind people that material possessions and “things”, just aren’t important. What is important is WHO we share those things with, the memories we make with each other.

This book is designed to shock and make my readers question life. Not only what life would have been like if the virus was worse than it is now, but everything else too. But at the same time, it’s designed to make people laugh, to feel the full range of love and to always remember that there is hope. That actually, hope is all we need. ...more

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	Unprecedented Times: Book One 4.45 avg rating — 38 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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