Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Author Profile: Samantha J.

Meet Author Samantha J. 

Tell us about yourself.

    Samantha Jackson is a Certified Life Coach and Minister, that focuses on improving the lives of men and women through motivation, consulting, and theoretical practice. As a Business Coach, Samantha focuses on helping Owners increase their revenue. Through strategic planning and collaboration, Samantha works with you to develop a plan that focuses on every aspect of your business to increase industry presence and yield favorable results. As a Life Coach, she helps develop a plan for a successful marriage and life daily.

Samantha attended the University of South Carolina studying Criminal Justice. She enjoyed a career in the Law Enforcement field for over thirteen years. Striving to add value to her thriving flair for entrepreneurship, Samantha continued her education at Kenneth Shuler’s Hair School of Design and became a licensed cosmetologist and beauty consultant. To continue her education goals, Samantha enrolled at American InterContinental University, where she received a degree in Business Management. She has been employed with a telecommunications company for eighteen years. Additionally, she maintained her role as Proprietor of several successful endeavors over the years. 

Samantha is very active in providing hope and mentorship for women and men that are battered, abused, and those battling depression and pain as a result of domestic violence. As a survivor, she places an emphasis on being a resource to people in need.

Her philanthropist efforts expand into numerous communities, but giving back to the community of domestic violence survivors is her flagship cause. Samantha J. is originally from the Low Country of South Carolina, raised partly in Early Branch, a small close-knit community located near historic Beaufort. She currently resides in Columbia, S.C. with her husband. Samantha has one adult son and five bonus children. She is also a very proud grandmother. Samantha is a professional writer, lending her talents to numerous periodicals and publications.  She is a former journalist for “Scars of Survival Magazine”. She is a highly sought-after Wedding Coordinator and Event Planner. She is also a Relationship, Business, and Career Life Coach. With a plethora of talent, Samantha exercises faith and strength in all she does. Her professionalism shines through every project.


What types of questions do you ask yourself when planning a new book? 

    In having five published books and four Anthologies, “In order to achieve my goals, who needs to read my book?” “Who will benefit the most from my ideas and viewpoint?” or “Who is responding to my content already?” Then I identify the novel premise and pick a point of view for prose.


   What would you say is the most difficult part of writing a book?

    The most difficult part of writing for me is It requires hard work, extreme ambition, and intense discipline. Even for successful writers of bestsellers, the hardest part of the writing process can be simply sitting down to write the first page. If you take it one step at a time, though, writing a book is an attainable goal. So I have to make sure when writing I attain the right goals. 


How many books have you written? Which is your favorite?

    I have written five books and 4 anthologies. My favorite would be hard to say because there is a little of me in all of them. If I had to choose it would be my 2nd release, “The Women Cheater”, because it shows a side that most people don’t want to talk about it was one of my best sellers and I got a lot of great feedback from it. 


Do you hear from your readers much? What kinds of things do they say?

    I do hear from my readers in emails and social media. Most people want to know how I get my content or when is a sequel coming. I have not ventured into sequels and a lot of people reach out for them. 


What does your family think of your writing?

    My family has been very supportive of my writing. I don’t put out a book but every few years and my husband are always asking why? He pushes me to keep writing. I have other things in life that I like to focus on such as domestic violence and life coaching so that does not allow me to write every day. When God puts it in my spirit to put out a book then that’s my focus. 


How do you create your main characters? 

    My latest book is a devotional. My others have characters. I just think of my storyline and come up with the characters as I go along. It could be people I knew and changed names that had similar behavior or either making up people who may go through the something I talk about and build a character. 


When did you write your first book and how old were you? 

    I wrote my first book thirteen years ago in 2010. I was a flop, so I did a redo of the book in 2012 in which I was 43 years of age. 


How do your books get published?

    With all of my books, I am self-published. I hire a self-publishing company to do the work and have been with the same one for years, and switched this year with the new book. If works for me and I own my rights. 


What would you like to say to your readers? 

    I appreciate all of my readers and thank you to all that has followed me and also shared my content on their social media platforms. I also appreciate my readers getting every book when they are released. I have a lot of followers and a lot of them are so supportive and it’s much appreciated. 


Follow Author Samantha J at the following social media outlets:
Instagram- Jynrsam
Twitter- Jynrsam
Amazon Author Page- Samantha Joyner


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