Location: Canada
Member Since: June 12, 2011
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Lavinia Thompson


Biography

I am a 22 year-old hippie who is just discovering what life really is. My heart is entrenched in novel writing. I am pursuing a dream of being a full-time novelist. It's the beginning of a journey that I have always dreamed of. I have risen from a dark childhood of domestic violence. I faced that monster in my closet and am now writing about it. I watched my mother be tortured for almost ten years. I stood before the remnants of the house her ex burned down in a drunken rage. I lived with the aftermaths and the damage it did in the years that followed. Now, I am chasing dreams and living my life to the fullest.Through my writing I want to be an advocate for domestic violence and child abuse, to speak out and be a voice. I am engaged to a wonderful man I met while working on the college newspaper. I am a journalism grad, a journalist, a sister younger and older, a daughter to a survivor of a mother and my angel daddy, a niece and a soon-to-be wife.

I have been writing since I could put a pencil to paper it seems. My first writings were short stories rewriting fairy tales in ways I envisioned them to play out. Poetry was something that intrigued me in junior high school. An interest in Shakespeare came in high school when I attended an outreach school in grades 11 and 12. I was permitted to study on my own and got to drift around with different areas on top of the curriculum already in place. Shakespeare and forensics became the two main things I studied there. It was through Shakespeare's MacBeth and an essay assignment that I got interested in the witch hunts and trials of the 16th and 17th centuries, igniting the idea for the Spellbound series.

In 2011, I set a goal. After graduating from college, I set out to publish two of my books. One is my poetry book about domestic violence and child abuse, "She Wasn't Allowed to Giggle" and the other is the first in a series, "Spellbound by Fire." My poetry book was self-published back in September and "Spellbound" was published in December. With that goal out of the way, I am setting my sights once again on my journalism career while trying to make it big with publishing my books.

Where to find Lavinia Thompson online

Website: http://laviniathompsonauthor.wordpress.com/
Twitter: LaviniaThompson
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Books

Travis    by Lavinia Thompson
Price: Free! 3570 words. Published on December 21, 2011. Nonfiction.
When a friend dies young, it's traumatizing. To lose a friend three days after Christmas is devastating and every holiday after that is never the same. This is a short story about friendship, loss, and moving on, in hopes that some day Christmas spirit returns to the heart.
Spellbound by Fire    by Lavinia Thompson
Price: $2.99 USD. 128550 words. Published on December 2, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Never again: those were the two words every innocent witch waited to hear after the nefarious Black Guards took over the country of Nevermore, savagely hunting and torturing witches for 35 years. Twenty year old Janey Black never thought they would rip through the little village of Tia Justace, but they did just that.
She Wasn't Allowed to Giggle    by Lavinia Thompson
Price: $0.99 USD. 23190 words. Published on September 28, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
A poetry and prose collection that explores the dark depths of domestic violence and child abuse and about finding the light at the end of the tunnel.

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Smashwords book reviews by Lavinia Thompson

  • Soldiers and Dandelions on Dec. 08, 2011
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    Tessa sent me this link to "Soldiers and Dandelions" as part of an eBook Giveaway I am doing for National Domestic Violence Week on Facebook for my own poetry book. As an abuse survivor myself, I was quite touched by this story and the use of dandelion as a metaphor for abuse survivors. Well written and touching.