To start, shamelessly plug your books!
My name is Mary Schmidt, and I write under the pen names S. Jackson and A. Raymond. A. Raymond is a pen name for my husband, who has a lot of input into our books. I am a retired registered nurse.
When Angels Fly: The eBook is on sale for 0.99 cents. Trust me that this memoir is a spiritual awakening. After surviving the cruel rage of tyranny from her mother and ex-husband, Sarah Jackson traveled a new path; a journey of loss, heartbreak, and ultimately strength. How do we survive the unthinkable, our child suffering from a terminal illness? Sarah Jackson’s life will teach you that despite all the hardships, you will survive, even if at times it feels like you won’t!
Suzy Has A Secret: teaches children, ages four to eight years-old, about personal safety and body ownership, and explains how to identify who safe adults are in a child’s life. This book shows in positive and practical ways how parents, and educators, can talk to children about personal safety. Children learn about bad touch and good touch, and how their body belongs to them. Parents and educators can help children learn who the safe people are in their lives, and that they can always tell one of them about anything that may happen, and they aren’t comfortable about.
The Big Cheese Festival: we meet Stubby Mouse and his family and friends. We learn that Stubby Mouse has a secret, that he is being bullied by another mouse, simply because his tail is short. Read how Stubby Mouse stood up for himself, and how he ended the bullying, in this delightful story for children. Targeted at ages 4-8, the book is easy to read and perfect for home or classroom. Children learn how bad bullying is, and what they can do to help stop bullies!
Art Gallery Selections: This book contains 40 works of art from the M Schmidt Photography Gallery for others to enjoy. Mediums used include photography, traditional watercolour and oil paintings, as well as series of digital selections mostly using bamboo and water color or ink stains. We hope you enjoy the serenity and tranquil feelings of contentment that we derive from our works. Mediums used include traditional photography, water color and oil paints, along with a selection of surreal works.
How a Dog and Two Squirrels Become Best Friends: This book is about how one small dog, a baby squirrel and his mama squirrel become best friends. A baby squirrel is lost and found safely. This story book helps children to learn how to be safe when they are outside their home and illustrates that children always need to keep the adults in their lives aware of where they play and how to stay safe. This is the first book in our ‘Shadow’ series!
Shadow and Friends Go Camping (Shadow Series Book Two 2): This is a book about one small dog and three squirrels, who go camping. After obtaining permission to camp, a wise squirrel teaches the young ones how to stay safe on land and in a boat.
Shadow and Friends Visit the Mountains (Shadow Series Book 3): This story is about a ground squirrel that lives in a burrow, in the mountains of Colorado. Shadow, a dog, and Uncle Stubby, a fox squirrel, and their friends go on a trip to visit Uncle Stubby’s cousin, Rocky, a ground squirrel.
Shadow and Friends European Vacation (Shadow Series Book 4 ): In Shadow and Friends European Vacation, a small dog named Shadow wins a free trip to Europe because of all of her books that teach children safety at home, and during adventures.
Rodent Road Adventures: Backyard Squirrel Antics: Series Book One: America’s National Parks
This book is a picture book showing America’s beautiful national parks through photographs and text, along with a few backyard squirrels thrown in for good measure.
Rodent Road Adventures: Backyard Squirrel Antics Series Book Two: Children’s Comics:
Our backyard squirrels with their funny antics inspired us to comics geared towards children. We think that our funny squirrels mixed with ‘human children toys’ and even old costumes we had at hand to ‘dress up’ our squirrels in funny ways will have children laughing and maybe many adults as well.
Rodent Road Adventures: Backyard Squirrel Antics: Series Book Three: Teenage and Adult Comics
Our backyard squirrels with their funny antics inspired us to create our comics and in this case geared towards teenagers and adults.
Favorite Timeless Recipes is a collection of eighteen different recipes that have withstood time, and generations of use. We hope others will use this collection of recipes in the many years to come.
You write in many genres. Which is your favorite? Why?
Children’s actually is my favorite right now. All of my children’s books keep children entertained and teach them at the same time. I also have two special children’s books with dealing with good touch/bad touch and the other bullying.
What influenced you to start writing?
After I left my nursing career, I felt a need to help others in various life situations so my memoir was first. I wrote my first book, my memoir, When Angels Fly, specifically to get the word out and help others.
When Angels Fly is the inspirational story about a woman who was able to rise above an extremely abusive childhood and later marriage, to learn faith, love, and motherhood from her own son’s courageous fight with cancer. It provides an illuminating example of how women who are in physically, mentally and emotionally abusive relationships can successfully escape even in the most challenging of times. It also warns of how the actions of medical professionals can be a soothing balm or a deadly arrow. The story draws the reader into the life of a mother and her wonderful little boy who is strong beyond his years and who leaves a lasting impression on all who knew him.
In my memoir, I hope to help others in life in a variety of settings. I want to inspire battered/abused women to have the positivity, which enables them to get out of bad life situations. I want to empower parents to be advocates for their sick child. I want to help other parents who have lost a child or children that there is hope, that faith will waver, and that this kind of loss is the “King of Loss” and to take it minute by minute, day by day, as they rewrite the life they had planned when their child was alive. I want to spread what my five year old little boy knew about Jesus and Heaven! I want to help parents and educators know how to speak to a student who has experienced the loss of a sibling. Validation, encouragement, and faith is key.
Abuse ~ all forms of abuse is a biggie. I want to help women, and some men, who are in an abusive relationships find the strength to get out before it is too late and something worse happens, such as being murdered. I want to get out the hotline numbers to call, and safe houses to go to. The cycle of abuse needs to stop, and it won’t without more people talking about the help that is out there.
Look for S. Jackson here:
When Angels Fly Book: https://www.amazon.com/When-Angels-Fly-S-Jackson- ebook/dp/B017UNVWDI/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
Blog: https://whenangelsfly.wordpress.com
Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/MMSchmidtAuthorGDDonley
Personal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mary.schmidt.50
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaryLSchmidt
Artwork: http://mschmidtartwork.deviantart.com/
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/S.-Jackson/e/B013NRRKR2
Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-schmidt-a1a511101
My name is Mary Schmidt, and I write under the pen names S. Jackson and A. Raymond. A. Raymond is a pen name for my husband, who has a lot of input into our books. I am a retired registered nurse.
When Angels Fly: The eBook is on sale for 0.99 cents. Trust me that this memoir is a spiritual awakening. After surviving the cruel rage of tyranny from her mother and ex-husband, Sarah Jackson traveled a new path; a journey of loss, heartbreak, and ultimately strength. How do we survive the unthinkable, our child suffering from a terminal illness? Sarah Jackson’s life will teach you that despite all the hardships, you will survive, even if at times it feels like you won’t!
Suzy Has A Secret: teaches children, ages four to eight years-old, about personal safety and body ownership, and explains how to identify who safe adults are in a child’s life. This book shows in positive and practical ways how parents, and educators, can talk to children about personal safety. Children learn about bad touch and good touch, and how their body belongs to them. Parents and educators can help children learn who the safe people are in their lives, and that they can always tell one of them about anything that may happen, and they aren’t comfortable about.
The Big Cheese Festival: we meet Stubby Mouse and his family and friends. We learn that Stubby Mouse has a secret, that he is being bullied by another mouse, simply because his tail is short. Read how Stubby Mouse stood up for himself, and how he ended the bullying, in this delightful story for children. Targeted at ages 4-8, the book is easy to read and perfect for home or classroom. Children learn how bad bullying is, and what they can do to help stop bullies!
Art Gallery Selections: This book contains 40 works of art from the M Schmidt Photography Gallery for others to enjoy. Mediums used include photography, traditional watercolour and oil paintings, as well as series of digital selections mostly using bamboo and water color or ink stains. We hope you enjoy the serenity and tranquil feelings of contentment that we derive from our works. Mediums used include traditional photography, water color and oil paints, along with a selection of surreal works.
How a Dog and Two Squirrels Become Best Friends: This book is about how one small dog, a baby squirrel and his mama squirrel become best friends. A baby squirrel is lost and found safely. This story book helps children to learn how to be safe when they are outside their home and illustrates that children always need to keep the adults in their lives aware of where they play and how to stay safe. This is the first book in our ‘Shadow’ series!
Shadow and Friends Go Camping (Shadow Series Book Two 2): This is a book about one small dog and three squirrels, who go camping. After obtaining permission to camp, a wise squirrel teaches the young ones how to stay safe on land and in a boat.
Shadow and Friends Visit the Mountains (Shadow Series Book 3): This story is about a ground squirrel that lives in a burrow, in the mountains of Colorado. Shadow, a dog, and Uncle Stubby, a fox squirrel, and their friends go on a trip to visit Uncle Stubby’s cousin, Rocky, a ground squirrel.
Shadow and Friends European Vacation (Shadow Series Book 4 ): In Shadow and Friends European Vacation, a small dog named Shadow wins a free trip to Europe because of all of her books that teach children safety at home, and during adventures.
Rodent Road Adventures: Backyard Squirrel Antics: Series Book One: America’s National Parks
This book is a picture book showing America’s beautiful national parks through photographs and text, along with a few backyard squirrels thrown in for good measure.
Rodent Road Adventures: Backyard Squirrel Antics Series Book Two: Children’s Comics:
Our backyard squirrels with their funny antics inspired us to comics geared towards children. We think that our funny squirrels mixed with ‘human children toys’ and even old costumes we had at hand to ‘dress up’ our squirrels in funny ways will have children laughing and maybe many adults as well.
Rodent Road Adventures: Backyard Squirrel Antics: Series Book Three: Teenage and Adult Comics
Our backyard squirrels with their funny antics inspired us to create our comics and in this case geared towards teenagers and adults.
Favorite Timeless Recipes is a collection of eighteen different recipes that have withstood time, and generations of use. We hope others will use this collection of recipes in the many years to come.
You write in many genres. Which is your favorite? Why?
Children’s actually is my favorite right now. All of my children’s books keep children entertained and teach them at the same time. I also have two special children’s books with dealing with good touch/bad touch and the other bullying.
What influenced you to start writing?
After I left my nursing career, I felt a need to help others in various life situations so my memoir was first. I wrote my first book, my memoir, When Angels Fly, specifically to get the word out and help others.
When Angels Fly is the inspirational story about a woman who was able to rise above an extremely abusive childhood and later marriage, to learn faith, love, and motherhood from her own son’s courageous fight with cancer. It provides an illuminating example of how women who are in physically, mentally and emotionally abusive relationships can successfully escape even in the most challenging of times. It also warns of how the actions of medical professionals can be a soothing balm or a deadly arrow. The story draws the reader into the life of a mother and her wonderful little boy who is strong beyond his years and who leaves a lasting impression on all who knew him.
In my memoir, I hope to help others in life in a variety of settings. I want to inspire battered/abused women to have the positivity, which enables them to get out of bad life situations. I want to empower parents to be advocates for their sick child. I want to help other parents who have lost a child or children that there is hope, that faith will waver, and that this kind of loss is the “King of Loss” and to take it minute by minute, day by day, as they rewrite the life they had planned when their child was alive. I want to spread what my five year old little boy knew about Jesus and Heaven! I want to help parents and educators know how to speak to a student who has experienced the loss of a sibling. Validation, encouragement, and faith is key.
Abuse ~ all forms of abuse is a biggie. I want to help women, and some men, who are in an abusive relationships find the strength to get out before it is too late and something worse happens, such as being murdered. I want to get out the hotline numbers to call, and safe houses to go to. The cycle of abuse needs to stop, and it won’t without more people talking about the help that is out there.
Look for S. Jackson here:
When Angels Fly Book: https://www.amazon.com/When-Angels-Fly-S-Jackson- ebook/dp/B017UNVWDI/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
Blog: https://whenangelsfly.wordpress.com
Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/MMSchmidtAuthorGDDonley
Personal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mary.schmidt.50
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaryLSchmidt
Artwork: http://mschmidtartwork.deviantart.com/
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/S.-Jackson/e/B013NRRKR2
Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-schmidt-a1a511101
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