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July 5, 2023

Yecheilyah’s Book Reviews – The Weight of Salt by Sandra Montanino

Title: The Weight of Salt: A Gripping Story of Love and Courage (Angelina Pirrello Saga Book 1) Author: Sandra Montanino Publisher: ‎ Edwards Publishing; 1st edition Published: January 13, 2021 Pages: 358 The Weight of Salt follows a Sicilian Italian family as they make their way through early 1900s America via the perspective of fifteen-year-old… Continue reading

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March 16, 2021

Black History through Poetry

I hope you are all doing well and all that good stuff. I have not blogged much lately because I am working on The Women with Blue Eyes and tons of other projects, including our 4th Annual Poetry Contest I want to get underway next month. If you are new here, welcome to The PBS… Continue reading

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May 21, 2020

“The Day You Plant the Seed is Not the Day You Eat the Fruit”

I learned a lot revising The Stella Trilogy, but the most important lesson I learned is, “the day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit.” I don’t know who the original author is of this saying, and I know there are many versions of the same quote. This means to… Continue reading

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April 24, 2020

Stella: Beyond the Colored Line is Live (The Stella Trilogy Book 2)

Beyond the Colored Line is LIVE “This story retells the history of many African-American families alive today. It is a heritage rich with strife and suffering but also filled with a hope and a desire to finally grasp the freedom that has been so elusive and out of reach for so many. At times, I… Continue reading

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April 6, 2020

Revising The Stella Trilogy: Book Two – Beyond the Colored Line

Book one is out and we are on to book two! My main challenge for book two is making sure that it stays consistent with book one. This is important for any series, but for Historical Fiction, it is even more critical. Since writing Historical Fiction is writing set in a time that has already… Continue reading

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March 6, 2020

Stella: Between Slavery and Freedom (Preorder Book One)

Stella is a work of Historical Fiction and is distinctive in its focus on one woman’s road to self-discovery, against the backdrop of the African American fight for justice, racial equality, and freedom. The 3-Part series focuses on the history of one family in their struggle for racial identity. We discover in this Trilogy how… Continue reading

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March 2, 2020

Revising The Stella Trilogy: Cast of Characters

I am always thinking about why Stella is so set-apart. Why are these books so effortless for me? The first time I released the series, things went smoothly, and the same is happening now. I can sit down, open Stella, and flow (or as I told a room of students, I sit down and bleed,… Continue reading

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