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Say it with 'Feelings'
Solace of library after loss of parents buoyed first novel
 Mike Maple/The Commercial Appeal Easing her mourning after the death of her parents, the library ''was here for me.
It was the one place I could have my little refuge," says Tempie King. She read excerpts and signed copies of her novel, "Feelings,"
at the Bullfrog Corner Bookworms monthly meeting at the M.R. Dye Public Library in Horn Lake on Tuesday.
By Wayne Risher
Contact
November 22, 2006
The Horn Lake library was Tempie King's refuge when she needed a quiet place and a computer to finish a novel she began
more than a decade ago.
She was getting over the death of both parents within one month when she faced the unfinished business of her book.
Her home and computer had been damaged by the wind storm of 2003, known as Hurricane Elvis.
"It was this library where I was able to come and finish 'Feelings,'" said King, 52, a DeSoto County
resident who grew up in Lakeview Gardens north of the Tennessee line.
"I found solace in my writing and I found solace in coming to this library. It was here for me.
It was the one place I could have my little refuge."
The author visited with the M.R. Dye Public Library's Bullfrog Corner Bookworms book club Tuesday and basked in the success
of her first novel, "Feelings."
"Feelings" was published in January by PublishAmerica. It's the story of Manerva R. Jones, a Southern character dedicated
to fighting injustice.
The fictional account is based on King's own life, which has been split between Memphis and the South and her adopted
home of Chicago.
"She's bolder than I could ever be," King said of the heroine.
In her writing, King goes by the pen name Tempie, which was inspired by the influence of Oprah Winfrey.
King once modeled Oprah fashions, a moment captured in a photo on the back cover of "Feelings."
King said, "What the picture didn't show was that Oprah's people were waiting to get the clothes back when I came off
the runway."
As her own agent, publicist and promoter, King settled on the first-name-only moniker.
"If she can go by her first name and Cher and Madonna can, so can I."
King graduated from the former Geeter High School in Memphis the last year it was a county school. She was the first
of five children in her family to get a college education, receiving a bachelor's in premedicine from LeMoyne-Owen College.
She was lead phlebotomist at Baptist Memorial Hospital before moving north. She was heading a medical lab when her aging
parents became gravely ill and she decided to come home to help care for them.
King said she always kept diaries, journals and notes to herself, and she started trying to make a short story out of
them in the 1980s. She had a book and everything but an ending by 1995, but she never finished it.
"If you knew me, it's about my whole life," King said.
"Manerva actually came alive once I started writing her story. She took the story and kind of maneuvered a little different
from my outline."
The appearance at the Horn Lake library was part of a tour that has taken King to book stores across Memphis and the
Mid-South.
Welcoming her were Carson Culver of the M. R. Dye Library, Sue Procter, Phil Brown, Annie Ruth Brown, Judy Kuntz and
Barbara Adams.
Judith LeVault, a newcomer to Southaven, dropped by to hear King talk about the book. LeVault said she checked out a
copy from the library, but she hadn't begun reading it yet.
King has a second novel in the works. She would reveal few details except that it will include some characters from "Feelings."
She's also busy planning a move to England, where she has a romantic interest -- a journalist and writer whom she met
in book publishing circles.
"We're madly in love," she said.
It's also a longtime dream of hers to live in England. "That is my ultimate."
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AUTHOR FEST BOOKSIGNING IN JONESBORO, AR SAT 10/28 ON PAGE FIVE!!!
THE WINNING TEAM USA/UK NEWSLETTER
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Booksigning Pictures 9/16/06 ON PAGE FOUR...YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THEM!!!
WE HAD FUN!!!
EXCLUSIVE PICTURES OF LIVE@ 9 TV APPEARANCE ON WREG-TV
a CBS AFFILIATE ON FRI 8/4/06 and DAVIS-KIDD BOOKSIGNING on SAT 8/5/06 ON THE NEXT PAGE!!!
also, AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY ALBERT WILIAMS MY
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BOOK COVER DESIGN
March
27, 2006 was the Official Release Date!!!
Available Locally at these Book Stores:
Urban Knowledge BookStore - 1280 Southland
Mall, Memphis, TN
Urban Knowledge BookStore- 6075 Winchester
Rd Suite #488,Memphis,TN
Burke's Book Store - 1719 Poplar Avenue, Memphis,
TN
Barnes & Nobles - 6385 Winchester Avenue,
Memphis, TN
Barnes & Nobles (Bookstar) - 3402 Poplar
Avenue, Memphis, TN
Barnes & Nobles-Wolfchase Galleria Germantown,
Memphis, TN
More coming soon...
Available at these Libraries in Kentucky:
Main branch - Marshall County Public Library
branch- Calvert City Public Library
branch - Hardin Public Library
branch - Marshall County
Bookmobile
ALSO!!!
MR DYE Library-Horn Lake, MS
MR DAVIS Library-Southaven, MS
(Plus All 13 Libraries in
DeSoto County,MS)
More coming soon...
Just type in "Tempie" or my ISBN#
ISBN # 1-4241-0706-7
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Manerva R. Jones
trapped in her Southern roots until she discovers her freedom is deeper than life itself. Her sense of passion, power and spirit drives her to fight
injustice at all cost. And it is injustice that takes her on a journey to the
city of Chicago where she meets two important people
in her life. The three of them realize the irony of their freedom...battling love and lust...wanting to do the right thing...knowing God will
forgive them... They are torn between living life to please family and following
their hearts to their happiness. Faced with confronting
reality and knowing what was done will cost them everything if the truth is told. Having different backgrounds, pursuing different
professions and desiring different dreams, lead all three to show in their reaching
out and understanding of one another that they are yet the same.
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