Monica Jackson
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Illuminating through fiction is something wonderful when you can pull it off. It's that place you reach when the reader knows they've read something significant, something with meaning beyond entertainment, enlightenment beyond the story. That's art, or it may be magic...whatever it is, that's what I want to do

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Welcome to a world of werewolves, vampires, demons and mere mortals, where, in the name of revenge, five women are about to live out their wildest fantasies—even if it means crossing over to that other side…

In the works, a mystery, tentatively titled, Dead Man's Hand.

Yep, I'm talking poker. Vegas, money, fun, high stakes . . . and of course, murder. Featuring what I think is my best heroine, ever. Get ready, folks! Written under my mystery pseudonym, MJ King.

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I wrote this around six years ago. I found it lanquishing on my hard drive and decided to put it back up. The info never goes out of date, and unfortunately is never irrelevant.

I decided to include a section on domestic violence because too many women are being hurt by the ones who claim to love them most. Too many women are feeling trapped and all alone.

Nancy Richards-Akers was a Washington D.C. author of historical romance novels.

Nancy is the third romance author to be murdered by her husband in three years. The news of her death shook me. After long consideration, I decided to speak out my experiences with domestic violence. It was a difficult decision. I'm by nature a private person, and not inclined to put my business on the street. But if sharing my experience helps just one woman find the courage within herself break free of the cycle of violence
. . . shouldn't I be courageous enough to speak out?

When domestic violence happens, many women feel ashamed. They feel domestic violence happens to people who don't care if their neighbors see drunken brawls on their front lawns, to people who having police cars in front of their house is an ordinary sight. It shouldn't happen to people like them.

The man they chose to share their lives makes them feel like crap. He hits them, screams at them and they're scared and unhappy because of him much of the time. They feel it's their fault somehow. If only they would satisfy him, if only they could be different in some way.

Their fear is if people find out, they'll know something is wrong with them because things like this don't happen to decent people. So they hide their shame. Sometimes they hide until it's too late and they're nothing but another statistic is a routine report.

Please check out the pages I put up about domestic violence. Violence is a cancer that's invading our society at every level. I believe it's unrealistic to think that we as individuals can stop the epidemic of violence that's sweeping our communites, but we can reject it in our lives.

The family is the foundation of society and we need to excise abuse and violence in our homes. Many women feel they have no control over their lives. I don't think that's true.

We do have a choice. We may simply need support to exercise our choices. I hope the page is not only informative but helpful in a practical way for the woman who wants to break free of the spiral of abuse.

Nashville Police Dept. with written permission from Lt. Mark Wynn

© 2007 Monica Jackson