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SHOES is an inspirational story about Carla, a young woman who becomes a single parent when her husband walks out on her after their baby is born, then battles bouts of depression while trying to give her daughter the life she deserves.

Three years later Vince decides he wants his daughter for the day to celebrate her third birthday that, like her other birthdays, he missed. Carla has reservations, but wanting Megan to know her father, she allows Vince to take Megan home.

He locks Megan inside a large dog crate, ignoring the child all day, then takes off to the bar with friends. When time comes to take Megan home, driving intoxicated, he has an auto accident, leaving the little girl seriously injured and in a coma. Megan survives, but she now walks with a significant limp and her learning abilities are slower.

At six years old, possessing wisdom beyond her years, Megan surprises her mother time and again by her logic, and her determination to not let her disability get her down. Learning from her daughter, Carla once again believes love does exist.

With Megan playing matchmaker, Carla finds true love with her daughter’s doctor, a man who is no stranger to discrimination. Megan keeps the family strong, continuing to teach her mother and new father valuable life lessons.

ONE IN A MILLION, part of the bitter memories series, is a short story about an amazing man who changed the direction my life was heading. After I'd attempted suicide, I met David, another patient on the psych ward suffering from deep depression.

He'd been admitted on a suicide prevention watch. However, holding a heartbreaking secret, David had a good reason to be depressed.

Becoming instant friends, David shared his secret with me. Leaving the hospital, he began to show me life through his eyes. With his demons controlled, this young man loved life and saw beauty in everything around him. David only wanted to be there for his friends and to help others. But, no one could help David. No one could change what was to come for my dear friend.

One In A Million is a true story of friendship and love between two friends helping each other deal with spirals of emotions, good and bad.

Sue Julsen is a true crime, memoir, and crime fiction author. Most of her books are based on true events from her own life, or from stories shared by friends. Some are heartbreaking, others are heartwarming.

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I am a true crime, memoir, and crime fiction author. Most of my books are based on true events from my own life, or from stories shared by my friends. Some are heartbreaking, others are heartwarming.

THE MEMORIES SERIES: Bitter Memories: A Memoir of Heartache & Survival, Book One, told from the heart, is a true and unnervingly gripping account of the extremes of neglect and mistreatment a child can undergo—and still survive.

The story reveals the author's early life after being kidnapped, then living on the run, dealing with hunger, fear and molestation.

Written with the hope that exposing these horrors will help prevent them from happening to others, and that more survivors will find a path toward healing, this book contains adult language and sexually graphic content.

Drowning In Memories, Book Two, is written in two parts with a special bonus short story at the end.

Parts one and two continue the memories and the many mistakes I made along the way. This up and down ride includes fun times, not-so-fun times and sad times that came to mind during and after writing Bitter Memories. Many secrets Uncle Henry kept hidden over the years are also revealed. John, who I didn’t know growing up, was an amazing big brother. With great pride I share some of our times together while getting to know each other.

The bonus story tells of friendship and love between two friends helping each other deal with spirals of emotions, good and bad.

Cutter's Revenge, Book Three, mixes some truth with a lot of fiction about a man who believes he has amnesia, when in reality he has blackouts where one or more personalities take over his life, leaving him with no memories of that timeframe.

Before years of lies from the past can destroy him, Uncle Henry opens his heart and soul to Sarah, his dead sister's daughter he adopted—praying Sarah can forgive him as she learns the truth.

The Revenge Series Book One: Trophy Murders, contains parts based on the true story as it continues Sarah’s life after she goes to live with her uncle, the cop, and his heavy-handed wife. Mixing in an action-packed crime story about a sadistic gang of killers, Sarah struggles with nightmares from the past while her uncle struggles to keep his own secrets hidden.

NOTE: Drowning In Memories is the true story without the fictional parts. Also Cutter's Revenge is book two in the Revenge Series. I especially like Cutter's story because I gained a pound of safe revenge toward some who hurt me over the years.

Evil times Two, Book Three, pure fiction, takes up the story five years after the death of Stan "Cutter" Clark, the worst serial killer the town has ever known. Residents in Munday, Texas are still trying to cope with nightmares of the morbid acts that occurred in Clark’s basement when Elaine Miller, a dynamic new real estate agent moves to Munday. She ignites fury, ignoring the town’s pleas, and sells the house the town believes is evil.

Greg Larkson, the new owner of Clark’s home, holds a dark secret that could change the town and Elaine Miller’s life, forever.

To learn more about these books, and all my other books, please visit my website. You will also find links to order and links to several book trailers on YouTube for some of the books.

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I am a true crime, memoir, and crime fiction author. Most of my books are based on true events from my own life, or from stories shared by my friends. Some are heartbreaking, others are heartwarming.

Bitter Memories is the first in this six book series.

PROLOGUE

I watch them. Strangers walking down the street, smiling and laughing. I wonder: What was their life like growing up? Did they have a normal life? Did their parents love them and tell them they were wanted? Were they told they were, and are, cherished?

As children, did they easily fit in with other kids, or did they go out of their way trying to fit in? Did they succeed, or were they laughed at? Did they slink into a corner and try to be invisible? Did they beg their parents to let them stay home from school or other activities to avoid those uncomfortable “they’ll hate me” feelings? Did they get beatings—or whippings—or just grounded? Were they told how useless they were and that they never should’ve been born?

As adults, do they feel comfortable in their own skin? Do they have self-confidence, or are they intimidated easily? Are they afraid to voice an opinion? Afraid to be laughed at? Afraid to be ridiculed? Afraid of doing something wrong?

If it’s a man, could he go to his father and ask about growing into manhood?

If it’s a woman, did she go to her mother and talk about things that bothered her? Could she ask questions about becoming a woman? About love? About sex? Was her mother her best friend?

While watching these seemingly normal, happy men and women, I think: I didn’t have a mother to talk to…to be my best friend…and even if I could’ve talked to my father, I couldn’t have asked him those questions.

I wonder what I would be like today if Daddy hadn’t run off with me when I was two years old and then again when I was three. Would I be a better person than I am today if I’d had a normal life?

What is normal anyway?

I wonder how many adult survivors have asked themselves that question! I know I’ve asked for as long as I can remember, and even now, I really don’t know. How could I? My life was as far from normal as it could possibly get!
I have very few memories of being happy while growing up. I remember heartache, sadness, extreme hunger, and intense fear.

Starting at age three, I had a life no child should ever have. It was a life of sorrow, neglect, and abuse. As a kid, I wished time and again to forget all that had happened, but I couldn’t. I’d been left with scars from so many bitter memories, voices in my head, and nightmares. Horrendous nightmares that I felt sure would haunt me for the rest of my life.

While on the run, for many years I lived a life of hell with my father. But the craziest part of the entire ordeal? I still loved him! I feared Daddy, but I worshiped him. I thought my daddy could do no wrong.
I’d been thoroughly brainwashed.

Today, I wish I could say Daddy had been a kind, decent human being, but I can’t. Daddy was cruel. He was rotten to the core. As my story unfolds, you’ll learn he was a liar, a con, a bigamist, and a thief—and these describe the nicer side of my daddy. He only thought of himself and his own personal needs.

My story consists of things I remember, things I was told, and things I learned along the way. When the subject matter dealt with things I didn’t have firsthand knowledge of, I took what “nosy ears” was not supposed to hear while the grown-ups whispered around the kitchen table or behind closed doors. I then put as many pieces together as possible. The remainder I filled in with what could have happened when I wasn’t around by taking similar events and characteristics of each person that I did witness.
To protect the innocent—and the guilty—names (including mine) and places have been changed, but these are true accounts as I know them and/or believe them to be, or could’ve been based on the circumstances.

My name is Sarah, a little girl kidnapped by her father, trying to survive in a world of abuse, hunger, neglect, and terror.

This is a gripping, unforgettable, emotional journey.

This was my life.

NOTE: This book does contain explicit language and sexual conduct.

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I am a true crime, memoir, and crime fiction author. Most of my books are based on true events from my own life, or from stories shared by my friends. Some are heartbreaking, others are heartwarming.

Then there's my crime fiction stories...In these twisted tales I bring you The Revenge Series where good finds bad verses pure evil...a place where you might find yourself looking for things that go bump in the night.

Book 1, Trophy Murders: Henry Frye, Munday's police chief, is at his wits ends after numerous men and women vanish from small area towns, then one of his own officers’ turns up missing. He doesn't know a serial killer will soon be stalking his own backyard...

Book 2, Cutter's Revenge: PURE EVIL LIVES HERE...HAUNTING MEMORIES…SECRETS…LIES...A SERIAL KILLER STALKING…The suspense has more twists and turns than a snake on Prozac.

Book 3, Evil times Two: Five years after the death of Stan “Cutter” Clark, the worst serial killer the town has ever known, residents in Munday, Texas are still trying to cope with nightmares of the morbid acts that occurred in Clark’s basement.

When Elaine Miller, a dynamic new real estate agent moves to Munday, she ignites fury, ignoring the town’s pleas, and sells the house the town believes is evil.

Greg Larkson, the new owner of Clark’s home, holds a dark secret that could change the town and Elaine Miller’s life, forever...

To learn more about these books and other current books please head over to my website.

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I am a true crime, memoir, and crime fiction author. Most of my books are based on true events from my own life, or from stories shared by my friends.

Please visit my website to see all eleven books available. Thanks!

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About the Author: I am a true crime, memoir, and crime fiction author. Most of my books are based on true events from my own life, or from stories shared by my friends. In the 11 books currently available, some are heartbreaking, others are heartwarming.

BITTER MEMORIES is a 6-book series.

Book 1: The names in this unforgettable story have been changed from those in real life. Remembering her horrifying life in as much detail as possible, the horrors that occurred are factual. This tale of the author's early life—a life on the run, dealing with hunger, fear and molestation, is an unnervingly gripping account of the extremes of neglect and mistreatment a child can undergo—and still survive. NOTE: The first in this series contains adult language and graphic content. It is the most heartbreaking. It is NOT a feel-good book.

Trophy Murders, the first in the Revenge Trilogy, is an action-packed crime story about a sadistic gang of killers, and Sarah's struggles with nightmares from the past while her uncle attempts to keep his own secrets hidden. This book contains parts based on the true story from Bitter Memories after Sarah goes to live with her uncle, the cop, and his heavy-handed wife, but parts of this story are also pure fiction. For the true story read Drowning In Memories, book 2 in the Memories Series.
Cutter's Revenge is book 2 and Evil times Two is book 3 in this series.

Also check out the books available in Audio and watch the awesome book trailers!

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Books really do make wonderful gifts for Christmas, birthdays, any occasion or no occasion at all.

All of my paperbacks are in stock and ready to autograph for you or for you to give to someone special.

You can visit my website, check out all the books then message me from the contact page on the site for more details and/or to order.

I am a true crime, memoir, and crime fiction author. Most of my books are based on true events from my own life, or from stories shared by my friends. Some are heartbreaking, others are heartwarming.

HAPPY READING — HAPPY GIFTING!!

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I am a true crime, memoir, and crime fiction author. Most of my books are based on true events from my own life, or from stories shared by my friends. Some are heartbreaking, others are heartwarming.

I've been asked numerous times if I sell signed copies of my paperback books. The answer is Yes, I do.

For an autographed copy you do need to order directly from me, not from Amazon or CreateSpace. Go to the Contact page on my website and send a private message for details.

Available paperbacks are:

Bitter Memories: A Memoir of Heartache & Survival (Note: strong language and explicit content)

Drowning In Memories (Note: After Midnight and One In A Million are included in this book.

Trophy Murders

Cutter's Revenge

Evil times Two

Zip Ties and Lies, The Anderson/DiMaggio Case: Coldhearted- Coldblooded

I look forward to hearing from all my fans — new and old. Just go to my website to learn more about each book -- there are currently 11 total in E-book, paperback and/or audio versions.

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I am a true crime, memoir, and crime fiction author. Most of my books are based on true events from my own life, or from stories shared by my friends. Some are heartbreaking, others are heartwarming. You can see all my books on my website.

TRUE CRIME:

Who REALLY killed the Andersons? With all the apparent cover ups, do we know for SURE?

Who was behind the cover ups? After all this time this is still the question!

A 9-1-1 call to the San Diego police department on August 4, 2013 reporting a two-story home on fire in Boulevard, California is only the beginning of many harrowing events to follow.

After a woman’s body and the body of a dog is found inside a detached garage, murdered, a bloody crowbar next to the woman’s body, the dog shot in the head, the homeowner and two kids are reported missing.

Assuming homeowner, James Lee DiMaggio killed the children’s mother, Christina Anderson—the woman’s body discovered in the garage—setting his home on fire, he then kidnapped Anderson’s two children, Hannah age 16 and Ethan age 8.

The following day the remains of a child, burned beyond recognition, is found inside DiMaggio’s burned-to-the-ground home. And even this is only the beginning.

After a week-long manhunt, DiMaggio, maybe an innocent man, based on information from San Diego’s sheriff Bill Gore, is then shot down by the FBI in what appears to be actions of a firing squad.

The public has doubts on the validity of what is being told. Stories continue to morph, and more doubts arise. More and more lies brings the question of Hannah and Brett Anderson’s innocence into doubt—at least for the public.

But the story doesn’t end here.

This story is only beginning as a lawsuit has been filed by Lora DiMaggio, Jim DiMaggio's sister...

Learn the facts in Zip Ties and Lies, The Anderson/DiMaggio Case: Coldhearted - Coldblooded — the only book on the market that explores all facts and scenarios of what could have actually happened.

Available in Audio, narrated by Kenneth R. Williams
Paperback
E-book

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I am a true crime, memoir, and crime fiction author. Most of my books are based on true events from my own life, or from stories shared by my friends. Some are heartbreaking, others are heartwarming. You can see all my books on my website.

Kidnapped at age three by my own father, if I knew years ago what I know today, I could have titled my book, Bitter Memories: A Memoir of Heartache & Survival....My Father Was A Serial Killer.

Certainly not something I'd like to have included on a resume, however, from earlier memories, most of my life I suspected my father had killed numerous women over the years. Maybe more than 26 women....

Read Bitter Memories and Drowning In Memories to learn the full story. See if you have the same suspicions I had for so many years.

NOTE: Bitter Memories is not for the faint of heart. It contains explicit language and sexual content, but this was my life as I remember it. With help from terrifying nightmares many pieces of the puzzle were eventually filled in.

Go to the website and pick up your copies today! Learn from my story...get involved if you think or know a child is being abused...don't sit on the sidelines and wait for someone else to make that call to the police or Child Protective Services.

YOU can make a difference in a child's life. YOU might be the only chance a child has to live a happy life.

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