To my readers, I want to apologize for not doing a blog post on the 4th of July wishing all of you a great 4th. But, the thing is, I couldn’t.
I came home, after leaving to go walk my step-mother’s dog, Pepper, to find that my home had been entered by someone bent on stopping my writing. I came home to find my desk chair broken beyond repair, and I had to carry it out to the dumpster. But that was not the worst. When I tried starting my computer, I found that it was stuck in a start-up loop.
It would seem as though it was going to start, and as soon as I tried logging in, the screen went black and it went into startup mode, again. This went on for hours. I finally had to resort to doing a system restore. That got it to the point where it would work for about thirty minutes and shut down in the middle of whatever it was that I was doing. And if I hadn’t hit save while I was typing, my work was gone!
It took all of last week to get the computer to stay up for an hour before it shut down and went back into the startup loop. It was frustrating and after a while, I felt like I just wanted to carry it out to the dumpster and sit beside the broken the desk chair. But, I was determined not to let the stalkers have the last word on my career.
Now the thing I was working on before this all happened was a personal email to Maywood Police Chief Vladmir Talley.
I’m not going to go into full details of what I wrote in that email, but it pretty much summoned up how I feel about the Maywood Police Department and their handling, or not handling, of my stalking case. I also informed him that he should not continue waiting for me to confess to something I haven’t done. Yes, I knew that everyone, at first, thought that I had done something wrong to the stalkers and that something wrong centered around sex.
What I told him was that it’s not sexual, at least not on my part. The thing that I’ve done wrong according to the stalkers is to become a success. Stepping fully into being Eliza D. Ankum. And they (the stalkers) are the ones who are getting a sexual charge out of trying to destroy that.
And the second thing I was working on, and it has to do with the email, is that two years ago, I began noticing a trend regarding my books. And it’s this, since I took time to study, taken James Patterson’s Master Class, read books like, “The Grammar & Style Book by Susan Thurman, Save The Cat by Blake Snyder, and Bird By Bird by Anne Lamott, I have not had a single review on any of my books. Not a single one. Even with them being discussed on The View. (Thanks ladies I really appreciated your comments. And Joy I’m working hard on getting the grammar correct.
Just so you understand, I tested this theory by gifting a friend one of my books and asking her to write me a review. But she told me later that she couldn’t. As in Amazon wouldn’t allow her to.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not looking for four star stellar reviews. I’m just looking to get reviews.
My first two books, “Ruby Sanders (38 reviews) and Jared Anderson (5 reviews)” got lots of reviews. Most of them bad, because I really didn’t know what I was doing. Which is why I took the time to study. But, those bad reviews got me sales and even more reviews because people love to look at car wrecks, train wrecks, and even book wrecks.
But, I told myself to hold on, you’re probably imaging this because I don’t think the stalkers could have pulled this off. But then again, they’ve managed to convince the State of Illinois and the Maywood Police Department that I’m bothering them. Who knows what they might have told Amazon. Below is a summary of my books.
Name of book Date Published Number of Reviews
Ruby Sanders 11/27/2013 38
The Ruby and Jared Saga Book 1)
STALKED! By Voices 12/20/2013 0
Flight 404 01/18/2014* 0
*Flight 404 was first published on Intuit in 2008 and as https://flight404.wordpress.com in 2009. The book description and Chapters 43 – 58 may sound similar to a popular movie a while back.
OneThreeThirteen 06/05/2014 0
Dancing With The 02/24/2015 0
Fat Woman
Jared Anderson 12/11/2015 5
The Ruby and Jared Saga Book 2)
Thou Shalt Eat Dust 08/05/2016 0
A Woman’s Voice: 02/06/2017 0
A Little Book Of Poems
The Hunt For Red 06/15/2017 0
November
Ruby and Jared 05/29/2018 0
(The Ruby and Jared Saga Book 3)
Eleanor Grunsback 01/18/2019 0
Mr. President 2016 06/18/2019 0
So, how do I tell the young men and women of Maywood that if they work hard and strive for success they’ll be rewarded with money and fame, when I know, for a fact, that they’ll most likely be cheated out of their income and stalked?
Eliza D. Ankum
Click on my name above. Not bad for a girl who can’t get a review.
A Tiny Kitten With A Big Mouth 