Beyond the Closet Door Book Blog Tour Featuring Author Sharon Jenkins
By APOOO • Apr 8th, 2011 • Category: Virtual Book Tours •
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What are some of the main themes you portray in your book title?
The title Beyond the Closet Door is a complement to the book cover. The picture on the cover speaks volumes to my experience of neglect as a toddler in the closet. Lots of things happen in the closet that we don’t want anyone to know about. Until we find the courage to open the closet door of our abuse, we can not be healed.
What makes your book title different from other books in the marketplace?
The title itself is riveting. Everyone has a secret that they are not sharing with the world. People are drawn to the book by the picture, but the title makes you want to stay a while and visit this little girl to find out what a child would have to hide from the world.
What genre is your book title and who is the target audience?
Beyond the Closet Door is a great non-fiction read for anyone who has a heart for people who have experienced abuse or been abused. A report of child abuse is made every ten seconds! The odds are, if it has not already touched someone in your family, it will if strategic measures aren’t taken to prevent it. This book increases awareness of the plight of this American tragedy, acts as an alert to community activists and is a healing balm of hope to all those who have suffered it. Stolen innocence can not be retrieved, but the healing power of Jesus Christ can turn even this atrocity into good for the benefit of that individual.
How did you come up with the premise for your book title?
I am a living witness that the uncompromised love of Jesus Christ and the price He paid at Calvary is sufficient for the abuse that I have suffered both as a child and as an adult. I had a closet experience as a child that shaped my life for a constant battle with fear. Others I have interviewed have had more severe acts of violence happen to them and lived to tell about it, but if left up to their perpetrator, they would not have. My book is merely a voice crying out in the wilderness for those who have lost and are losing their innocence as we speak. One second, two seconds, three seconds, four seconds, five seconds … ten seconds and another child’s life has been stained forever.
Tell us about the main character(s) in your book title.
Beyond the Closet Door offers hope to the adult who has silently carried this burden alone for a lifetime. There is a journal prompt after every chapter that allows the reader to “Tell Their Story.” My story is the main thread throughout the book, but it isn’t just about me, it’s a testament of lots of voices that are shouting, “I got up from the bed of my affliction with the help of a loving Savior and so can you.” It is also not a book based on the blame or condemnation of the abuser. Research indicates that the abuser was most like also abused in their childhood. They too, can find healing in its pages.
What lessons have you learned about the publishing industry?
You can spend a lot of money and get no where in this industry. You must develop strategic relationships in order to be successful. I am currently working on a national tour of my 2011 Authors Networking Summit. We start at the Michigan Spring Book Festival in Detroit, Michigan on April 15. (www.authorsnetworkingsummit.com). The summit’s theme for this year is “Authorpreneurship.” Often authors are excellent at their craft, but not very good at the business end of writing. We plan to assist authors in being a total package, so that they can “handle their business” and make more money and sell more books through networking, diversification and collaboration.
What can readers expect from you in the future?
I will release a new literary work titled “Authorpreneurship” at the summit. I am also working on a children’s book and a sequel to Beyond the Closet Door that focuses on male sexual abuse.
Is there anything else you would like to share with APOOO readers?
I also do a Blog Talk Radio program for authors every Wednesday called “Let’s Talk About It!” and I would l am looking for authors to interview and join us jus t listen. We have real fun; it’s kind of like a literary “View.” (www.blogtalkradio.com/themastercommunicator)
About the Author
Sharon Jenkins shares her very personal story of how she went from victim to victor over abuse. The book Beyond the Closet Door… is centered on her closet experience as toddler and how this experience of neglect has shaped every life experience she has had since then. She chronicles its effect from that point through her adulthood. This book is not about blame but perseverance. The silent scream of abuse continues to cry out in this nation and as an advocate for the abused she has made it her personal mission to help others child abuse adult victims “stop the hurting.”
Known locally as The Master Communicator, the author is proficient in communicating the plight of the abused child in this revelatory book. Ms. Jenkins is a motivational speaker and workshop facilitator. She is also the co-author of another inspirational book, Songs of Three Sisters, and an avid contributor to local magazines and newspapers. She is current a writer for Beauty Come Forth E-Magazine.
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authorsnetworkingsummit@gmail.com
http://www.facebook.com/BeyondtheClosetDoor
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This looks like a very interesting book, but I know it will pull on my heart strings.
Thank you for hosting the Beyond the Closet Door Blog Tour with Sharon Jenkins. We appreciate you letting your readers know April is National Child Abuse Awareness Month.