: About Me

J.Thornton-Thomas is an award winning, best selling author with twenty-nine titles in print. Her books have garnered several awards, including two EMMA awards, the Romance In Color Reviewers Award, Readers Choice Award and the Atlanta Choice Award in the Religious & Spiritual category. Jaye also writes a series for young adults. Her second book in the series, Divine Confidential was nominated for a 2008 NAACP Image Award. Jaye is a member of the National Writers Union, Romance Writers of America and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She is happily married to her best friend and is the proud mother of three children. Jaye and her family live in North Carolina.

My passion is ...

Writing

My parents always told me ...

to get a real job

My childhood ambition ...

be a writer

Why I write ...

because I just can't not write

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

James Patterson

My first job ...

junior buyer for a department store

My best moment ...

marrying my best friend

My inspiration ...

my family

Religion & Spirituality > Spirituality (Other) How to live without fear

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How to live without fear is learning to have complete and total dependance in the Word of God. For the past fourteen years, I have been stricken with panic disorder for years and there were times that I could not even leave my house without having a severe attack. I was so crippled by the disorder to the point that I couldn't fly anywhere or drive my car. I soon became a prisoner in my own home. My doctor prescribed pills for me to take but they made me feel numb through most of the day and I didn't like feeling that way so I stopped taking them. I know God to be a healer and so, with Bibl...

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