No...Not Amy Jones, my name until relatively recently...but Author Faith Jones was on
NPR's Fresh Air today...she was in the cult, The Family, tells her
story, and how she broke away to fight for freedom and independence...
...and her book, Sex Cult Nun...
...and she got an agent and HarperCollins signed her to a book deal, Hard Cover, Soft Cover & Audiobook...
MY STORY...First I had to break away from the cult-like Jehovah's Witness religion which held me and my parents hostage, then I had to break away from an initial ill-advised marriage, and after 10 demanding years in the adult entertainment world, I broke away from the flash-for-cash stage and another marriage gone south, only to take up with a smooth operator who wooed me to the alter as a suave Dr. Jekyll but soon turned into an abusive Mr. Hyde. After dispatching him, I retreated to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to lick my wounds and regain my strength and resolve to continue making a contribution to this world...my story, so similar in so many ways to the Faith Jones journey.
When connections like this happen, do you ever get the feeling that the "Universe" has something in store for you...can you believe it, author Faith Jones is
reachable...and tomorrow I'm going to send her an email asking
that she take a look at my story and ask her to refer me to her agent.
We seem to have so much in common, on my blog I offer speaking services...so does Faith!! And, she also is a life coach!!
Faith has given a TEDx Talk...and that's something I need to look into.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18oDUTQ14ME
It just seems like a "sign" to me that in my darker days my name was Amy Jones...that we both left a cult and
earned our independence with grit, determination and street smarts.
If nothing else comes of reaching out to her I hope the two of us can meet for coffee some day to share our experiences!
We'll see what the storytelling fates have in mind for us...
Some day that picture below of a famous author might be...Amy Jones...I mean, Amy Ford!!!
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