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Interact with Connie Chastain
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Last On: Oct 30, 2009 - 10:32 PM
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388
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Member Since:
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October 5, 2009
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Location:
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Pensacola, FL
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ShoutLife Address:
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shoutlife.com/chastain
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Website:
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http://conniechastain.com
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General Fiction
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Primary Publishers:
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http://brasstownbooks.com
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Fiction: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee; Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell; A Wrinkle In Time by Madeline L'Engle; Alice In Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Louis Carroll; the Nero Wolfe series by Rex Stout; Steamboat Gothic by Frances Parkinson Keyes; Star Trek novels by a variety of authors. Nonfiction: the Holy Bible; Dove by Robin Lee Graham; Bride of Fortune and Gone Are the Days by Harnett Kane; and The Devil's Triangle by Richard Winer (something about the way he turned a phrase made me want to write!); How To Write, Speak and Think More Effectively by Rudolph Flesch.
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Southern Man (2009)
In 1972, they fell in love at first sight. He was a college football star -- a sweet Southern boy. She was sweet sixteen -- pretty, artless, chaste. A year later, Troy Stevenson and Patty Ayers were married.
But in 1983, in moss-hung Verona, Georgia, as they prepare to celebrate their tenth anniversary, the tender and tenacious love between this hardworking man and his adoring wife is tested by sudden adversity. Now a corporate executive, Troy must confront an old family secret that underlies his nascent alcohol abuse or he may lose his wife and the son and daughter he deeply loves. When his latent destructiveness is unleashed and impacts his family, he moves alone to their lakeside cottage to come to grips with his personal weaknesses.
But busybodies at his company assume he left home because his marriage is in trouble. Encouraged by the assumption, co-worker Brooke Emerson, an amoral, 1980s material girl romantically obsessed with Troy, attempts to seduce him, setting in motion a chain of events with harrowing consequences for him and his family.
Buy Southern Man Online
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I'm a former staff writer for The Florida Sun, (now the Pensacola Independent News), which was published, starting in 1999, in Pensacola, Florida by former Congressman Joe Scarborough (now the star of "Morning Joe" on MS- NBC). My articles were all nonfiction and ran the gamut from travel to current events and chemtrails to Bigfoot in Dixie.
I'm a ninth-generation Southerner. Born in Georgia, I grew up a preacher's kid in Alabama, attended Alabama Christian College (now Faulkner University) and married a Louisiana boy.
I currently reside with my husband of 30+ years in L.A. (Lower Alabama -- aka, the Florida panhandle).
Southern Man is my first novel, published under my own imprint, Brasstown Books.
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Recent Guestbook Comments (22)
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Welcome To Shoutlife! My new album, I Am Not Ashamed is now available! If you have some time, be sure to check it out at http://www.jasonpatchett.com/store.html Thank you! Have a great week!
Always be ready, never be ashamed!
Jason Patchett
Romans 1:16
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Welcome to ShoutLife!
Have a blessed weekend.
Mike
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Welcome to the SL community,Connie. May you be blessed here. Pat
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Your genealogical research is impressive. Now all you have to do is go to France and see how much farther back you can go. Maybe there's even a novel in there somewhere. A French ancestor of yours had an illicit with the queen's nephew. Because the royal family has been dishonored, he must flee for his life, having all kinds of adventures along the way as he makes his way to the Americas. You've got romance, history, discovery, honor lost, and honor regained--and it's all loosely based on your family. What can be better?
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Thank you for joining my music group and Welcome to Shoutlife!
GOD BLESS, Bryant
http://WWW.BSTERLINGCD.NET
http://artist.to/BRYANTSTERLING (Facebook)
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Wow, 9th generation. So when did your family first arrive in Georgia. My great-great grandfather arrived in San Francisco in 1852 from Ireland, but I think you have me beat.
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My dearly beloved Connie:
Peace be unto you!
Given the current distress and perplexity which the world is experiencing, inspirationally caused by the forces that be through man and nature, it is important that certain mysteries are brought to light at this time, that the wearied soul may find comfort in understanding the time and season, and his designed course and ordained destiny, as the end of the journey and its glory are upon you: for every journey must have an end. The time is come for you to gradually receive the full knowledge of God's grace, as the last fulfillment is at the door; grace to you: for Peace, the latter rain, whom you seek, and whom the world esteems not, is in your midst, incognito: for as it was at the first, so again it is at the last!
To he that has perception: Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open (expound) the book, and to loose (interpret) the seven seals thereof. Thus you were told to watch: for he comes as a thief. And understand the presence of a thief: for he never comes announced; but is in your midst, yet unawares to anyone but he that he makes his presence known to: incognito. Let he that has an ear hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches (the body of faiths), even unto all men: it is the voice (doctrine: testimony) of the seventh angel (Peace: the last). The peace of the Father, which is accorded the Son, be with you; and the love of the Father, whom you are, ever to be reflected unto your brethren. Shalom! Salaam! Namaste!
Eternally with you!
Your friend,
Nicky
www.myspace.com/nicolashelez
www.mychurch.org/ernestangley
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Welcome to ShoutLife....
This is a cool place....
Have a wonderful weekend....
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Welcome to ShoutLife! I hope you love it on here!
Stephanie Staples
But certainly God has heard; He has given heed to the voice of my prayer. Psalm 66:19
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Welcome, Connie.
God bless.
- David
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Welcome to Shoutlife, you've found a great site to be at!
I've been here over 2.5 years.. whew! can't believe it's that long already! I've met some really wonderful and true friends here, I hope you will too.
~Linda
http://www.reverbnation.com/manager/LALBU
http://www.profile.to/LALBU (Facebook)
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Hi Connie,
Thanks for the add and welcome to SL! It's a great place, even greater people with lots to do and listen to.
Congrats on your book! May you really enjoy the friends you'll make and the time you spend here. God bless you!
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Welcome to Shoutlife.com
Glad you are here !!
God Bless !!!
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Welcome to shoutlife .. I hope you check out our magazine
www.sgnscoops.com
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Hello and welcome to Shoutlife. I hope that you will enjoy your time here. Lord bless you.
Haneefah Turner
Reflections of a Queen
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Hiya, Connie! It's a pleasure to make your 'virtual acquaintance' here on Shoutlife!
I'm sure you've already discovered how friendly and warm everyone here is. And you can trust that it'll only get better. I've made so many dear friends thanks to this site!
As a former full-time reporter, I'm looking forward to getting to know you better as I learn more about your work. Meanwhile, may the Lord shower you and yours with joys too numerous to count!
Blessings,
Loree
1 Cor. 10:13
http://www.loreelough.com (where, if you sign up, you can win a free copy of my latest release, set in North Pole, Alaska!)
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Welcome to ShoutLife.com *smiles*
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Hi there, Connie! WELCOME TO SHOUTLIFE! You've come to the right place! This is a great, fun-loving community where I hope you make a bunch of terrific friends!
God bless you on your life journey, wherever it leads. The Lord has amazing things in store for you, and He is FOREVER GOOD!
Come visit me at my other Web site by clicking HERE!
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