My guest today is author Mary L. Schmit. Hello! Welcome to Writing in the Modern Age! It’s such a pleasure to have you here.
It's my pleasure!
Can you tell us a little bit about your latest book? When did it come out? Where can we get it?
Hello! Thank you so much for hosting me on your blog today!
It's my pleasure!
Can you tell us a little bit about your latest book? When did it come out? Where can we get it?
Sure, Marie. Sammy: Hero At Age Five by M. Schmidt and Gene D. Donley, tells of my son’s story of his fight with cancer but this time from Sammy's point of view – a five-year-old’s point of view. This is a book that breathes. It is a gallant saga of Sammy and his mother in battling cancer with incogitable courage and resolute determination. The story is a compelling, first-person narrative of the journey that Sammy and his mother undertook when cancer plagues Sammy. The story has Sammy, a child barely out of the toddler-stage, as the protagonist who gets affected with cancer but does not let it shred his substance, his spirit, his ebullience. The story is a slice of real life and it shines in its own glory of candor and courage. The story, with its impeccable sincerity, sets in the cascade of emotional pathways and the empathy is momentous and super-instant. Sammy suffers and the agony hits you hard in the face; you find Sammy vulnerable amidst a sea of medical professionals and paroxysms of protective instinct jolt you and overpower you; you find a febrile bout tormenting Sammy’s well-being, lassitude automatically grips you hard.
The child-like glee thickly layers the narrations of the mischief that Sammy and Gene (the brothers) indulged in. Their bond is profound and all scattered in the subtext, ‘two peas in a pod’ as the author sums up. The craze of putting their favorite red backpacks in the morning even before getting dressed, the chutzpah of pulling radishes out of the ground and eating them in the field, the legend of cookie-monster and the monster residing in the sand-pit, the joy of riding lawn mowers and fishing and riding big Red Wheels, the picnics on sunny days with an unending supply of chicken nuggets and honey, the charm of creating a ruckus behind mother’s back, the thrill of fast-climbing steps of the slide with no one around, the guilt of adventures that took a wrong turn. The substance of the book is knitted with life-sized narration of events that induces a high-definition visual imagery, running on loop, giving a highway ride to the sensory nervous system. This book just came out and it is found on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and everywhere so if you walk into, say, Walmart, and they don’t have it on their shelf; ask if they can order it for you.
The Amazon link is here: http://tinyurl.com/yxme5ne3
Okay.
Is there anything which prompted this book? Something that inspired you?
Is there anything which prompted this book? Something that inspired you?
Definitely! This book is like my first book, When Angels Fly by S. Jackson and A. Raymond, but it has a different feel to it as it details the same story, albeit from a different viewpoint. The story feels completely different, though. Where When Angels Flyis full of determination, hurt, anguish, love of family and an unerring belief, Sammy: Hero At Age Five is positive, full of hope of a better life (afterlife), a strong belief in heaven and of things getting better for little Sammy. It is awe-inspiring to read how his faith and braveness grew as he met Jesus and his older brother, Shane, a brother he never met in life. For Sammy: Hero at Age Five, it was time to tell the world how a little boy thinks and feels when in this real-life situation.
Wow. I always find it interesting to see where the muse takes us as writers.
Let me ask a different question.
When did you know you wanted to write? Or has it always been a pastime of yours?
Let me ask a different question.
When did you know you wanted to write? Or has it always been a pastime of yours?
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