Jayne Martin

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” —Nora Ephron

Jayne Martin

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“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
—George Addair

“The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.” —Barbara Corcoran
“It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort.” – Jillian Michaels

“Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.”
–John Maxwell

“Success is what comes after you stop making excuses.” – Luis Galarza
“When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it.” – Jim Rohn
“You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” – Tina Fey
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” —Toni Morrison

“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.”
—Alice Walker

Jayne Martin’s Other Writing

Journal Publications

“As the Story Goes” in Ellipsis Zine

“1967” in FlashFlood (National Flash Fiction Day 2021)

“Pecking Order” at [100 word story]

“At the Stroke of Midnight” at The South Shore Review

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Plus check out Jayne’s blog!

In Memoir: Letting the Child Speak

by | Oct 31, 2022 |

In a recent conversation with Shelby Leigh of the podcast, “Small Steps to Self-Love,” I was asked about the use of my childhood voice to describe some of the trauma I experienced that I write about in “The Daddy Chronicles-Memoir of a Fatherless Daughter.”  When a...

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Review at Redheaded Book Lover

by | Aug 29, 2022 |

I'm grateful to Aimee Ann for the high praise she gives to The Daddy Chronicles over at Redheaded Book Lover. She begins her review: The Daddy Chronicles is an important, touching, and memorable book that explores being fatherless in a personal and moving way. The...

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Let Freedom Ring

by | Jul 5, 2022 |

Let church bells ring out across the land of the free as Again. Again. Again. We lower our bullet-torn children into the blood-soaked ground of a nation held hostage by the gods of Glock, and Smith and Wesson. By a government on its knees before the crotch of the NRA....

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