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"BELIEVE.<br />
DO.<br />
WRITE."<br />
Are you an author that interacts a<br />
great deal with your readers?<br />
I try to interact with readers as much<br />
as possible via the various social media<br />
sites. I’m pretty active on Instagram<br />
(@marianlthomas09). I respond to<br />
posts on facebook and I tweet<br />
(@marianlthomas01). Book clubs reach<br />
out to me on facebook. They often<br />
request that I attend a book club<br />
discussion of one of my books or invite<br />
me to Skype with them when they<br />
aren’t local to Georgia. It’s fun and<br />
something that I welcome. My goal is<br />
to connect with over 100 book clubs<br />
this year.<br />
What’s the biggest highlight of your<br />
career?<br />
The biggest highlight of my writing<br />
career came last year when my book<br />
Blue Butterfly, a USA Today<br />
recommended read, was adapted for<br />
the theatrical stage as Blue Butterfly-<br />
The Black Ballerina. The play debuted<br />
June 2016 at the Marietta Performing<br />
Arts Center. I had a great cast and<br />
they worked hard to deliver a very<br />
memorable performance that was<br />
well-received by those that attended<br />
the play.<br />
What’s the next big thing?<br />
I’m thinking of adapting my first book,<br />
Color Me Jazzmyne, into a play. It will<br />
most likely be a musical production or<br />
some form of that. The idea is still coexisting<br />
with the other hundreds of<br />
ideas, I’d like to accomplish.<br />
Do you have any advice for the yet-tobe-published<br />
writers reading this?<br />
My motto is simple: Believe. Do. Write.<br />
Don't dwell on it. Write. Don’t doubt.<br />
Write. Don’t say...”I can’t.” Write.<br />
Writing starts with one word and ends<br />
with a period—everything in between,<br />
is a recipe of determination,<br />
inspiration, and a dash of reality.
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