Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Why I Write

Each and every one of us has a story.  Some people’s lives are full of misery.  Others are an endless source of inspiration. 
My story begins as lovingly and normally as anyone else’s.  Girl meets boy.  Girl loves boy.  Boy loves girl.  Girl and boy plan to marry and have children.  But that is where my life diverts toward another path. 
At the age of 19, only three months after the birth of my first child my son’s father was killed in a tragic car accident.  My world collapsed around me.  While most new mothers are grappling with Postpartum Depression, I was trying to wrap my head around the fact that my family was irreparable. 
At the tender age of 19, I was engaged to a dead man.  My son didn’t have a chance to get to know the father who worshipped him.
His death was a catalyst for my writing.  No longer would I jot down poems about teen angst or puppy love.  My pain produced my first self-published book, A Diamond in the Rough.


A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH
Diamond was born and raised in one of Brooklyn’s grittiest neighborhoods yet she has the potential to do anything she sets her mind to. After the death of her fiancee only months after the birth of her first child, Diamond’s life spirals out of control. It seems inevitable when she gets caught up in life altering situations such as a run-in with a heavy handed pimp, business savvy whores and eventually being embraced by the porn industry.  Diamond tries to do what many people do and out run her past. The deadliest elements threaten to destroy any chance of her shining. 

It has been 14 years since the death of Damon, Sr. Not a day goes by that I don’t see him in my son’s honey brown eyes.  Or hear him when my son chuckles.  I haven’t stopped writing although the pain has simmered and new love has over taken me.  Long ago buried truths and discomfort are now exorcised on to blank, brilliant white pages bringing me a sense of peace that only the gift of writing and God can deliver.

Lena Land Books

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