One of the first writers I discovered when I started dreaming of becoming a writer back in 2002, was Angela Giles Klocke. I never had a writing mentor, but if anyone came close, it was her. We didn’t communicate much back then, and there was no formal “helping”, but her website, her e-books and her life story were a great inspiration for me. I looked up to her (still do), read anything that had her byline, and still remember some of that work from her early days.
I’m not going to go into the long history of how women, especially in my own country, are treated inferior and choose to remain that way. Angela showed me, by example, what a person can do when faced with what can seem like unsurmountable life challenges.
Angela’s now written her story– of being a teen mom, facing domestic violence, and starting life from scratch– and is looking to build a platform for her work. I mention this, not because Angela’s a friend, but because she’s an amazing woman, a terrific writer, and someone whose story inspired me to reach out for my own dreams.
If you’d like to check out her story, it’s here:
http://www.thewheniwas13story.com/
And if you’d like to sign up for updates on when her book becomes available (as I know it will), sign up here:
http://groups.google.com/group/when-i-was-13
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