About the Book
Author Maritza Martinez Mejia's Memoir
It
is a pleasure to present to you my book HazelEyes an Inspirational book for
teenagers and adults.
The
reason I wrote this book was to take
the reader on a journey to view my personal life and to reveal my experience of
faith. This memoir connects each
chapter with common stories and supernatural events that I experienced from
childhood through adulthood.
The topics I included in my memoir go from
my doubts as a child and questions as a teenager. I added in my studies,
travels, engagement, motherhood, parenting skills. The last chapters consisted
of aging, dying, and passing tradition to other generations. I shared some of
my traditional celebrations and devotional prayers from the Catholic Church that
I learned at a Catholic School or from my mother and grandmother. I brought quotes
from other religious point of view from the 19th century poets such
as: inspirational fiction from the book of “The Prophet” by Kahlil Gibran, a
Lebanon poet of 1920s. I included some insights from C. S. Lewis most know for
the “Chronicles of Narnia” 1960s and Rabindranath Tagore, the first Nobel Prize
from Bengali literature in 1913.
The
writing process of Hazel Eyes was a
healing encounter. I realized how important it is to examine life and wipe away
any past incidents or forgive a person you need to apology. I thought I did not
have any bad feelings, until I was writing some of the episodes from my teenage
years. It took me several drafts and three summers to put together the
manuscript of this book, but only three months for the editing and publishing
process thanks to the Writer’s group of Morningside Library in Florida who
helped me go through the excitement of making this project public in 2010.
The
profit from this book is to promote
Peace thru prayer activities, advocate action, and public speaking.
Hazel Eyes inspired
me to continue to write inspirational messages for all ages. The future of this book is to have a
Spanish version to reach the Hispanic community and to gratify my family and
friends from Colombia, the land where I was born.
Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/vkbRoEgJ4eY
Editor’s comment: “Hazel
Eyes, a beautiful story told with honesty and love” – Dianne DesRochers –
