I love to write, but of course, you would expect that from
an author! I started writing seriously when I was a teenager during the summer
months of my 16th year. An 18-year old university student of my mom (who is a
college professor) and I spent the summer together at my home while my parents
were out of town. She and I filled notebook upon notebook with poems and quotes
and stories. God only knows where all those notebooks ended up. But that was my
first foray into the writing world.
Little did I know that writing would become a lifelong
passion that has carried me through different rites of passages in my life:
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Moms and Their
Young Spirited Boys - having children
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Anything is
Possible - true love
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Zesty Womanhood
at 40 and Beyond - middle age
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Radiant Survivor
- facing life challenges
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And finally Sarah’s
Gift - returning to childhood
What all my books have in common is that they all have a
message or messages for the appropriate audience, both non-fiction and fiction.
I like to write books to inspire others, whether it’s to help a mom dealing
with the masculine energy of her young male charges or to help a woman see
love, with its many obstacles, as a transformative journey or to help someone
survive and thrive after going through a life-altering experience.
As you might surmise, my books are based on my own life
experiences. I feel that I, and every other author who writes from the heart,
have something to share with others who may be going through similar
circumstances and may be seeking some guidance along the way. I may not be a
trained psychologist or therapist, but to me, having similar life experiences
can be just as effective in helping others break down the barriers that may be
keeping them from being all that they can be, no matter what the circumstances.
This is what I strive for myself as an author, and what I
strive for in relating my stories to others through the written word. As I say
on my Erica Tucci website at www.ericatucci.com/being-a-woman/: “I believe sharing who I am allows other
women to feel liberated in sharing who they are and recognizing how closely we
connect at the heart. I am you and you are me!”
This can be just as true for all humans. As we all begin to
connect more closely in the world, separation and the associated fear gives way
to union and love. And isn’t that a better place to be?
Believing In the Magic
Sarah’s Gift
Book Two
Erica Tucci
Genre: Children’s fiction, paranormal, social issues
Publisher: Publish it Write
Date of Publication: July 18, 2016
Word Count: 12,391
Cover Artist: Nada Serafimovic
Book Description:
Sarah is a fifth grader who has psychic abilities - she can see spirits. At school she meets Leila , a fourth grader and finds out that Leila also has psychic abilities. She uses telekinesis to make things happen, but she uses them to get back at kids in school who taunt her. Knowing how it is to be taunted by her peers, Sarah befriends Leila and helps her learn how to use her powers in a good way. In the end, Leila encounters a situation in which her powers “save the day”.
Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/Zs3_pzOhzGY
About the Series:
Sarah’s Gift is a series of chapter books for 7-12 year olds about a young girl with psychic abilities, who uses them to harmlessly deal with different life situations. Standing Up for Yourself is about how Sarah deals with a school bully. Believing In the Magic is about how Sarah helps a girl with telekinetic abilities use them in a good way. There will be a book coming out every two months, with several of them being co-authored by youngsters, the third one being one of them.
“Standing Up for Yourself is a gift that many parents will welcome. It helps parents encourage a child's gift of second sight perception that is all too often written off as ‘just your imagination’. Through the story telling Ms. Tucci provides support for children for their intuitive and psychic gifts. I've noticed how many more children these days are being acknowledged rather than shamed for their capacities to see, hear, and feel those ordinarily non-visible beings that make their appearance known. Both you and your child will thoroughly enjoy this story!” — Dr. Steven Farmer, author of Animal Spirit Guides, Earth Magic, and the Children's Spirit Animal Cards
"I am raving about the second book Believing in the Magic in the Sarah's Book Series by author Erica Tucci. As soon as I started reading the first few pages I couldn't put the book down. As a young child I remember magical moments in my life. I had great intuition and was always helping and healing friends and the creatures that God created. Sarah's story took me back in time to my childhood. Each of us have magical gifts that can be used for the goodness of life just like Sarah...The mindset of positive thinking and using your gifts for the greater good as Sarah brought out helping her friend Leila, are belief systems we all can learn from. In this story the messages are we are our own magic and believe in the power of thought for the greater good...This is a book to read to your children and discuss with them...It's a story of a compassionate friendship with a binding of acceptance in unconditional love."— Cindy Hively, Intuitive Healing Catalyst for Women
"I am raving about the second book Believing in the Magic in the Sarah's Book Series by author Erica Tucci. As soon as I started reading the first few pages I couldn't put the book down. As a young child I remember magical moments in my life. I had great intuition and was always helping and healing friends and the creatures that God created. Sarah's story took me back in time to my childhood. Each of us have magical gifts that can be used for the goodness of life just like Sarah...The mindset of positive thinking and using your gifts for the greater good as Sarah brought out helping her friend Leila, are belief systems we all can learn from. In this story the messages are we are our own magic and believe in the power of thought for the greater good...This is a book to read to your children and discuss with them...It's a story of a compassionate friendship with a binding of acceptance in unconditional love."— Cindy Hively, Intuitive Healing Catalyst for Women
Excerpt:
Introduction Believing In the Magic
Sarah lay in
bed. She had just started reading The Girl with the Silver Eyes by Willo Davis
Roberts. Her digital clock on her nightstand read 8:30. Stifling a yawn, she
turned the page to keep reading; she was engrossed in the book and finding out
more about Katie.
“Just for the
fun of it, Katie had shifted the air current then so that the pollen drifted
under his nose; when he sneezed, Pastor Grooten had to grab for his sermon
pages before they sailed off the lecturn.”
Wow! Sarah
thought. To be able to move things by just thinking about it. How does Katie do
it? But then she thought about what she was able to do. I can talk to ghosts. I
wonder if there are others out there who have psychic abilities. I can’t be the
only one! Katie was different, like her, just in a different way. Wouldn’t it
be nice to meet someone else who was different. There have to be others like
her somewhere. Sarah wished she could meet Katie. They could be best friends!
She delved into
the book, reading passage after passage of Katie’s harmless pranks: making her
horrible babysitter tremble at the sight of a floating fork and creating a gust
of wind that caused a door to slam into her pesky neighbor’s face.
Sarah understood
Katie’s predicament. Katie had silver eyes and was odd to people around her.
Sarah felt the same way. Most people shied away from her because they thought
she was “cursed.”
She was so
enamored by the book that she read until her eyes became very heavy. She
remembered when she was younger how her dad would say “Your eyes are getting
heavy; you are getting sleepy, sleepy, sleepy” when he was trying to put her to
sleep. How she missed her dad. She knew that he was okay on the other side
since her grandmother who had come to her one day told her so. She wondered if
he would come to her directly someday. It would be so nice to see him and talk
to him, even if he was in spirit and not on the earthly plane anymore.
Turning off her
bed lamp and laying her book on her nightstand, Sarah snuggled under her duvet
and fell fast asleep. She had no problem falling asleep; in fact, she would
fall into such a deep sleep, she would have the most vivid dreams. And that
night was no different.
She was sitting
in the back seat of her mom’s car peering out the window. The crow came up to
her window and started tapping on it with his beak. He started talking to her
telepathically. “Pay attention to the magic in the world,” he chirped. “You can
create anything you like through magic. Your thoughts are powerful!”
Sarah woke up
the next morning thinking about the dream and how she felt that crow was trying
to tell her something, but what? She had to put it out of her mind for now
since she had to get ready for school. She would ponder over it when she got
home in the afternoon.
About the Author:
Erica Tucci had a full life as a corporate manager of a Fortune 500 company, a healing arts business owner and an author. It all came to a screeching halt in June 2011 when she had a stroke. During her recovery, she gained much wisdom about what’s really important in life. Although she was a Reiki master, massage therapist and life coach as well as a corporate cog, she realized that her passion was her books. Her hope now is that the messages of her books will be an inspiration for others, young and old. Her most recent venture has been her Sarah’s Gift series, chapter books for 7-12 year olds about a young girl with psychic abilities, which speak to the children with special gifts, helping them deal with different life situations. Her other books include Moms and Their Young Spirited Boys (1998), Anything is Possible, a novel based on a true love story (2011), Zesty Womanhood at 40 and Beyond (2011), Radiant Survivor (2013 - Amazon bestseller), and most recently the first book of the Sarah’s Gift series Standing Up for Yourself (2016 - Amazon bestseller). The second book Believing In the Magic will be available for pre-order June 30 and is being released July 18.
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