What inspired you to write your memoir?
I have shared the story of my life verbally to so many people. After hearing over a 100 times I should write a book, I decided to put pen to paper. I also went through a spiritual experience that dictated the writing of the book and completion.

About your Book:
Join Jewel on her journey in “The Skin I’m In – An Intimate Journey With God” as you will discover how she overcame life’s adversities through her relationship with God. The Skin I’m In is about an incredible journey of a woman who thought she had control of her life only to find out God had preordained plans and a different agenda. Those plans take her on a journey even she could not understand. Her life was anything but ordinary. She was abused, strung out on drugs, jobless, continual loss of close loved ones. Finally she hit rock bottom with no signs her life could be anything more than living in hell. She survives it all because of several visits from God and the development of their personal spiritual relationship. She is sharing her story for all to witness how she overcame all of the obstacles life threw her way through her relationship with God.

How did you decide how to publish your book and where is it published through:
After becoming unemployed and placed on permanent disability, the only route for me to publish was independently. I have published my book through CreateSpace as well as Smashwords.

How do you see writing a Memoir as different from writing other genres of books?
Writing a Memoir was therapeutic for me, I had to go back over my life and relive experiences that were sometimes very painful. When writing books or stories of other genres (fiction, fantasy etc.) you have space to be creative and use your imagination. It is not necessarily all factual as writing a Memoir.

Author Bio:
Jewel Tyler always knew she would become an author and the love of reading inevitably directed her path. A native of Washington, D.C., Jewel spent her younger years giving back to the community through a youth Arts organization she founded. She left D.C. in 1989 to pursue a fashion design career in Los Angeles, California.

Jewel spent the last twenty years in several successful fields. In the corporate world, she used her technical expertise as a Computer Application Specialist. Her entrepreneurial spirit led her into several successful business ventures. She opened a chain of Exclusively Yours stores on the east and west coast – featuring handmade aromatherapy products, clothing and jewelry. She continued her fashion design career in the entertainment world as an image consultant to new and existing recording artists which ultimately opened doors for her to become the President of WOG (Word Of God) Records, Vice President to KNTD Publishing and a manager of several recording artists. Jewel is also interested in Naturopathic healing and is pursuing her Doctor of Naturopathy degree.

Through everything, Jewel never lost the dream to write and when the Lord called her in 2005 to put “pen to paper” regarding her walk with him, she answered by penning her intimate journey with God in the form of a book. The Skin I’m In – An Intimate Journey With God is the first in a series Jewel has published.

Jewel has received numerous certificates over the years as a guest lecturer for colleges and universities. Her awards include nods from the late Mayor Tom Bradley, Michael Woo as well as Maxine Waters in Los Angeles, for her successful fashion design business and youth outreach programs.

Jewel currently resides in Dallas, Texas. She attends Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship under the spiritual tutelage of Dr. Tony Evans. In Los Angeles, California, she was a member of Faithful Central Bible Church under Dr. Kenneth Ulmer.

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Author Home Page Link
Link To Book On Amazon
Link to Book on Barnes and Noble
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What inspired you to write your memoir?
Over the years I have had to share portions of my life to individuals which have crossed my path in helping them through trials and tribulations they have encountered.
After hearing over and over again, you should write a book about the experiences in your life to share with a wider audience; I decided to put pen to paper.
Writing The Skin I’m In was one of the most difficult tasks I have ever set out to do. Because it required me going back through my past and relive experiences I would have much preferred to stay as a lost memory. To fully express exactly what I was going through when being raped, or being beaten by the men in my life was not easy.
I believe the most challenging portion of the book to write was about my brother’s deaths. Digging through old newspaper articles that explained explicit details of how my brother was murdered took months to put pen to paper.
However, I realized that every time someone new would cross my path and I would minister to them I was constantly referring to stories in my book about my testimony and how I overcame my adversities. I knew I had to stop procrastinating and finish the book. I have laughed, cried, walked away from the project to only return realizing I had to give God the glory for everything I made it through. I know the book is anointed because many have stepped up to the task of assisting me with editing, only to find themselves under spiritual attack and they walked away.
It has been such a wonderful feeling being contacted directly by readers, expressing how my book has and is blessing them! Now that makes all the work, tears, joys and sorrows it took to complete the book worth everything I went through to write the book.

About your Book:
Join Jewel on her journey in “The Skin I’m In – An Intimate Journey With God” as you will discover how she overcame life’s adversities through her relationship with God. The Skin I’m In is about an incredible journey of a woman who thought she had control of her life only to find out God had preordained plans and a different agenda. Those plans take her on a journey even she could not understand. Her life was anything but ordinary. She was abused, strung out on drugs, jobless, continual loss of close loved ones. Finally she hit rock bottom with no signs her life could be anything more than living in hell. She survives it all because of several visits from God and the development of their personal spiritual relationship. She is sharing her story for all to witness how she overcame all of the obstacles life threw her way through her relationship with God.

How did you decide how to publish your book and where is it published through:
As a first time author, I had spent many days of research in what is required to obtain a Literary Agent to represent a first time author. In my research, I ran across information about CreateSpace a subsidiary of Amazon. The cost was perfect for my budget (nearly zero dollars) and their website was very user friendly.
So I chose to self publish my first book with CreateSpace.

How do you see writing a Memoir as different from writing other genres of books?
Writing my memoir took a lot of deep reflection as well as becoming transparent for my readers. When writing fiction I can create ficticious characters and this allows me the ability to be more creative in my writing. In writing my memoir I had to be very regimented and precise.

Author Bio:
Jewel Tyler is the published author of “The Skin I’m In – An Intimate Journey With God”. Jewel always knew she would become an author and the love of reading inevitably directed her path. A native of Washington, D.C., Jewel spent her younger years giving back to the community through a youth Arts organization she founded. She left D.C. in 1989 to pursue a fashion design career in Los Angeles, California.

Jewel spent the last twenty years in several successful fields. In the corporate world, she used her technical expertise as a Computer Application Specialist. Her entrepreneurial spirit led her into several successful business ventures. She opened a chain of Exclusively Yours stores on the east and west coast – featuring handmade aromatherapy products, clothing and jewelry. She continued her fashion design career in the entertainment world as an image consultant to new and existing recording artists which ultimately opened doors for her to become the President of WOG (Word Of God) Records, Vice President to KNTD Publishing and a manager of several recording artists. Jewel is also interested in Naturopathic healing and is pursuing her Doctor of Naturopathy degree.

Through everything, Jewel never lost the dream to write and when the Lord called her in 2005 to put “pen to paper” regarding her walk with him, she answered by penning her intimate journey with God in the form of a book. The Skin I’m In – An Intimate Journey With God is the first in a series Jewel has published.

Jewel has received numerous certificates over the years as a guest lecturer for colleges and universities. Her awards include nods from the late Mayor Tom Bradley, Michael Woo as well as Maxine Waters in Los Angeles, for her successful fashion design business and youth outreach programs.

Jewel currently resides in Dallas, Texas. She attends Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship under the spiritual tutelage of Dr. Tony Evans. In Los Angeles, California, she was a member of Faithful Central Bible Church under Dr. Kenneth Ulmer.

Website(s)
Author Home Page Link
Link To Book On Amazon
Link to Book on Barnes and Noble
Link to Book for sale via other sites

Your Social Media Links
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7046739.Jewel_Tyler
http://www.facebook.com/jeweltylerauthor
http://twitter.com/jeweltyler
http://pinterest.com/jewelt50/