Educational Publishing - Guest Author Dr. Maxine Thompson

Dr. Maxine Thompson

	Dr. Maxine Thompson

On April 9, 2005, Maxine Thompson received an Honorary Doctorate Degree of Humanities from Loyola Marymount University, Westchester, California, through The R.O.S.E. Ministries-Worldwide.

Called a "Renaissance Woman" by her peers, she is largely self-taught in the areas of e-book publishing, book doctoring, ghostwriting, story editing, literary coaching, column writing, information marketing, and Internet radio show hosting. She earned her Bachelor's Degree with honors from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, in 1973 as an English major.

Maxine currently resides in California, where she keeps herself busy supporting artists through her non-profit, Maxine Thompson's Literary and Education Services. Maxine is making her mark in the literary and publishing fields, opening doors once closed to black writers and bringing new emerging writers with intriguing story lines and characters with depth and texture with her.

Book Details: As part of an anthology with Denise Campbell and Michelle McGriff, Maxine Thompson explores the world of romance. Building a relationship after crisis is her angle in Katrina Blues. For purchasing information check Amazon.com, or other popular book outlets.

Territory: California

Website: www.michellemcgriff.com
Email: Maxtho@aol.com

	The story is a vivid portrait of Reverend Godbolt's family and his forebears. The family's secrets set the stage for a profound and provocative debate about black identity and destiny in America's past and present. We see the saga of Reverend Godbolt, who has always ruled his family with a steel glove, and who is questioning his faith, near the end of his life. A secret has kept him from truly trusting his wife and even loving one of his children. We see his spirited daughter, Nefertiti, who harbors a secret of her own, which keeps her from being able to actualize as a woman. We have the love triangle of the two men who loved Nefertiti, Pharaoh Curry, her first lover, and Isaac Thorne, her first husband, who both are trying to win her back. This situation is compounded by Nefertiti's current interracial marriage. It was this last act of insurrection against the family's mores which has ex-communicated Nefertiti from her insular family for the seven years preceding her father's seventy-fifth birthday celebration. At the opening of the novel, Nefertiti has returned from Santa Monica, California to Shallow's Corner, Michigan. In her return as the prodigal minister's daughter, the scene is set, as past and present ghosts of hidden sins come home to roost.