✍What’s YourStory? (WYS?)What’s Your Story?: Santita D’Anjou: Humble Beginnings“WYS?” is a guest pos
✍What’s YourStory? (WYS?)What’s Your Story?: Santita D’Anjou: Humble Beginnings“WYS?” is a guest post feature on BCBA’s Our Stories Matter blog. It’s for indie/self-published authors.Read anexcerpt:Humble Beginnings. I wrote a blog with this title years ago, and today I find myself re-reading my words, trying to determine what part of “my story” I would like to share with you. There’s so much to say, but what fully encompasses how I came to being an author? I truly believe this particular phrase is what brought me here. Although reading is my favorite pastime today, it was not anything desirable growing up. I remember so clearly being placed in the low reading group in first grade. Reading would cause me such frustration as a child that sometimes crying was the result. I cried in class, in my room, or while taking bathroom breaks to hide my tears. On top of that weakness, I also had a pretty bad lisp. This impediment served as a family joke and teasing means for my siblings, which led to my very low self-esteem when it came to reading in front of people.By the time I got to fourth grade, I was fed up with the teasing. I was done hiding and feeling less than everyone else in my class. I became determined to prove my teachers wrong or even to stop the teasing. I began to work hard at improving my reading skills. All I knew to do was to read….continue reading Santita D’Anjou’s story.InvisibleSantita d’Anjou BooksJanuary 29, 2021YA, 234 PagesAvailable Now!Follow/Subscribe: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | NewsletterIf you believe BCBA provides a valuable service, please take a few minutes to donate here or via Cash App ($BCBooksA) and support our mission to promote awareness of children’s and young adult literature by Black authors. Thanks for your support! -- source link
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