I'm sitting in the park under a big pine tree. I can barely catch my breath and I'm bawling my eyes out, hoping that no one I know walks by. How did this come about exactly? I had it in me to start a podcast. I really wanted to talk to interesting people about the interesting things that they write about. So, I used my contacts and I reached out to authors that share the same publisher and I do. It was a good start. A REALLY good start because I had set my schedule to do

I had the lucky chance to interview Shannon Symonds, Author or Safe House last week. She was also a domestic abuse and domestic violence advocate for about 15 years. You can learn all about that in her book, though it is fiction it is based in facts. Even though the subject matter is really tough and gritty, she tackles it in a "Hallmark" way- she says. It isn't a fun topic at all because according to Shannon, at least 1 in 10 households has some sort of domestic abuse. T