A MIND NOT LOST

About the Book

"A MIND NOT LOST is a collection of more than 100 pages of poems and quotes, written in a form to remind us of our strength, our sexuality and our faith. I remember going to church one morning and kept hearing the pastor saying ‘hold up your hand’. At the time my body was in church but my mind was far away. I didn’t hear the full question but heard ‘hold up your hand’ repeated. My mind came back to church and I saw the pastor looking at me since my hand was the only one in the air. Apparently, the question was ‘if you think that the Lord has failed you, hold up your hand.’ I left church that day in humiliation. Many things were going wrong with me then but I didn’t really mean to hold my hand up. That simple embarrassing moment got me thinking about my life instead of feeling sorry for myself. I started thinking about my accomplishments and needed more. I had so many feelings flowing and had no way of expressing them or to express them to so I started writing my thoughts down. The more I put on paper the more my mind gave me to write so I decide to use characters to do and say what I couldn’t. My writing turned into books where I created a world without fear of consequences. THE CHEATERS TRILOGY: ‘The Cheaters The Wife The Revenge’, then ‘The Cheaters The Mistress Her Story’ and ‘The Cheaters The Husband The Payback’. To insure that I didn’t lose my mind, I kept writing my books of poetry, A MIND NOT LOST, as a reminder to myself of how I found my strength. With all we go through daily, we maintain A MIND NOT LOST."

About the Author

Verona was taught as a child that a woman should marry, have kids and be happy. As a mother and wife she was happy but not totally satisfied. Her life fell off track when her marriage stumbled over trials she faced, her kids didn’t seem to need her attention as much and her health threw her some unexpected curves; she had to face it all at the same time. She found herself in a place where she felt cheated out of happiness. One day while day-dreaming in church she found herself in an embarrassing moment when the Pastor asked ‘if anyone think that the Lord failed you hold up your hand’ and when her mind drifted back she found her hand alone in the air; not meaning to. She apparently didn’t hear the full question but only heard ‘hold up your hand’. That embarrassing moment left her walking out of church with her head low. After that experience she decided to do something about her self-pity; to find herself. She began writing her thoughts down, good and bad. She started writing a world away from reality; to live through her characters and ‘THE CHEATERS TRILOGY’ was written with each written from the wife, the mistress and the husband point of view. Over time she accumulated many thoughts on paper and the end result is a series of poetry. Three books of poetry, ‘A MIND NOT LOST’ books 1, 2 and 3. Each book containing over 100 pages of poems and thoughts which she wrote to remind herself that through it all she didn’t lose her mind and that hand raising moment in church, pushed her to find herself. She has. A MIND NOT LOST Book One, already on sale. Book Two, now available and Book Three coming soon.