Par for the Curse Blog Tour Featuring Toyi Ward
By APOOO • May 26th, 2009 • Category: Virtual Book Tours •
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Getting to Know Toyi Ward, author of Par for the Curse
Tell us about yourself. I’m a small town girl who came to the Northeast after college. I’m the eldest of five and my personality definitely reflects the textbook definition of an eldest child. I’m fairly bossy and pathologically organized and responsible. Textbook! Married, with two beautiful sons, I greatly enjoy being with my family. My mom is my BFF. I speak to her mulitple times a day about just anything. I’m not an outdoors person unless it involves the beach, sun, and lounging by a pool. I love to golf but don’t get to do it often, so I’m not that great but I can play and break 100.
What type of jobs or careers have you worked in the past? My educational background is chemistry/pharmacy. After college I practiced hospital and retail pharmacy before going over into sales & marketing at a healthcare company. I spent ten years as a sales/marketing executive before becoming a writer full-time.
Who are your favorite authors? Bebe Moore Campbell, Walter Mosley, James Patterson, Barbara Delinsky, Toni Morrison, Victoria Christopher Murray, and Tracie Price-Thompson. I love them because they leave you with so much to think about after you’ve read one of their projects.
What are your favorite books? 72-hour Hold, Temptation, Family Tree, Easy Rawlins series, Alex Cross Series, The Bluest Eye, Love, A Woman’s Worth all by my favorite authors.
When did you begin to realize you wanted to write? Early, I was in middle school when I started writing stories and my, then short, autobiography. I wanted a creative outlet and way to express the thoughts in my head. It was therapeutic, for the most part. It wasn’t until after college that I started taking my fiction writing seriously.
Are you a full-time writer? If so, describe your day?
I am a full time writer. I started last summer with the completion of PAR FOR THE CURSE manuscript. I write every day in the morning. I find that the key to writing is to sit down and do it. As a writer, if you sit in the chair the words will come….maybe not good words, but words that can be made into something good. After I get my children are in school and I’m settled in with my coffee I read what I wrote previously and build on from there. I usually write until noon before doing some social networking for the day. I revisit writing in the evening. The afternoon is also filled with non-fiction freelance assignments. I am basically in front of my computer 18 hours a day.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Stormy has grown up with the warning that she is cursed. Raised in a family of eight women with twenty-four husbands among them, she has managed to escape the family’s legacy thus far. Things begin to change once she is given the details concerning a hex that was cast upon her great grandmother over eighty years ago.
Managing the antics of her adulteress young cousin, Riley, exhausts Stormy. Comforting the heartbreak of her older cousin Lourdes, angers her. After a devastating turn of events on par with her birthright, Stormy decides to seek a remedy for the family’s plight. She travels to New Orleans determined to find answers. Along the way she faces a quilt of obstacles and a set of choices that challenge her reality. Will she reveal the information or continue playing the hand she was dealt by an angry young woman in the Bayou?
Par for the Curse reveals the influence of voodoo and the impact of generational secrets on family, life, and love.
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Yasmin, Thank you for participating in the Par for the Curse Blog Tour!
Toyi, we like some of the same books. Love James Patterson’s Alex Cross series!
Blessings,
- Ty
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Yasmin,
Thanks for taking the time for me. I really appeciate it. I hope your readers love the book. Everyone, give me a shout and let me know what you thought of the Briggs women and keep coming back to APOOO. It’s one of my favorite literary places on the web.
Ty,
I LOOOOOOOVE Alex Cross. Did you read Cross Country, the latest one? I would be interested to hear what you thought of it.
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I like Par for the Curse. I might buy it. Have to count my pennies.
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I haven’t read Alex Cross. Do I need to start at the beginning of the series? What?
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Hey Tea…yes you need to start at the beginning…I can’t remember what the first book was but if you go to Patterson’s Web site they are listed in order. Happy Reading.
I need to read this !!
I loved reading this and I dont really like to read