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welcome back prolific author, occasional reviewer, and all around good guy Earl
Staggs to the blog today as he takes a look at Original Cyn by Sylvia Dickey Smith. If you are not familiar with her, Sylvia also wrote the Sidra Smart Series as well as A War Of Her Own and survived relocating to Arkansas.
ORIGINAL
CYN by
Sylvia Dickey Smith
Reviewed
by Earl Staggs
When the preacher is in his pulpit and his dutiful wife sits in the front row performing as his support and helpmate, their lives seem perfect and full. When the sermon is over, Cyn Carter’s life is far from full and she doesn’t know why. Why does she feel that over the years her life was sucked dry and she
Sylvia Dickey Smith is uniquely qualified to write a story as powerful and revealing as this one. Like Cyn, she was a pastor’s wife for a number of years. At the same time, while raising four children and still serving as the pastor’s wife and missionary, she earned a BA in Sociology and a Masters in Educational Psychology. This led her to a new career in private practice as a licensed professional counselor and marriage and family therapist.
Her next career goal was to become a writer. In the process of writing a successful and highly praised series of novels and becoming a state and national award winning novelist, she found her niche in creating strong female characters forced to face overwhelming adversity.
In ORIGINAL CYN, she has combined her psychological education and experience as a professional counselor with her writing skill and crafted a compelling story that will keep any reader turning pages.
This book is highly recommended for both men and women.
Original Cyn
Sylvia Dickey Smith
Oya House Publishing
(self-published)
October 2014
ISBN# 978-0692259290
Print
(e-book version available)
288
Pages
$14.95
Earl Staggs ©2015
Earl Staggs earned a long list of Five Star reviews
for his novels MEMORY OF A MURDER and JUSTIFIED ACTION and has twice received a
Derringer Award for Best Short Story of the Year. He served as Managing Editor of Futures
Mystery Magazine, as President of the Short Mystery Fiction Society, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars.
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3 comments:
This looks fascinating. Thanks to Kevin for having Earl review it. Now I'm off to check it out.
Glad to have Earl review anytime he wants....or anything else he wants to do. Always good to have Earl around.
Sounds like a book I'll want to read. Thank you for sharing the gist of the story.
Marja McGraw
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