{"product_id":"2940153795416","title":"Memories of My Childhood","description":"\u003cp\u003eHave you ever wondered what a writer’s childhood was like?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell, wonder no longer. These stories are about my childhood. I began writing when I was twenty-one in the year 1971 and have since seen not only the world change dramatically but the publishing world as well. When I published my first novel, a horror yarn titled Evil Stalks the Night in 1984 with Leisure mass market paperbacks, I was a loyal worker bee of the big publishing houses with a stingy boiler contract and a whopping 4 percent of the royalties…now thirty-two years later I am self-publishing and am finally making a living at my craft for the first time in forty-five years of writing; with 24 novels, 2 novellas and many short stories to my name. Three of the four short stories in this collection were the VERY FIRST stories I ever had published and they were printed in my local newspaper between 1977 and 1979 after the one titled Michael, a tale about my youngest brother who was murdered in 1971, won their short story contest over two hundred other submissions. I illustrated all the stories for the newspaper then and have included those original drawings in this book. The fourth short story was just recently written and is a composite of some of my childhood Christmases. All four are loosely based on my childhood in the 1950’s and 1960’s. After my musician\/singer\/songwriter brother Jim passed away last year from cancer I felt the intense need to revive these old stories and memories and put them out there for all to read as a tribute to him and my family. These are my stories, my childhood and some of my fondest memories.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kathryn Meyer Griffith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122893635824,"sku":"2940153795416","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940153795416_p0.jpg?v=1764057073","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940153795416","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}