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\nAuthor of Far Away Home: The Knowing, Jantina Herrick, also known as J.T Conners, says her book is an easy read so people can sit back and enjoy it without complicated words.
\n\u201cI try to write so people can escape and move on to a completely different world and still really enjoy it. I want somebody to just sit down and just escape for the afternoon, or have a nice hot bubble bath with a glass of wine and just escape,\u201d said Herrick.
\nHer novel is about a planet that has been ravaged by years of warfare, to the point that their world has no vegetation or animals, only male humanoid species living in it as their female counterparts have been eradicated due to disease.
\n\u201cThey go through the Galaxy to collect plant life and to collect animals to be able to re-establish life on their planet,\u201d said Herrick.
\nShe added that on their travels they come across Earth, where they encounter a female who gets kidnapped by one of the planet\u2019s males who had instantly fallen in love with her.
\n\u201cMy stories are not just based on romance, space travel and alien worlds. They also have to deal with conspiracy, battles, war, violence, sex,\u201d said Herrick.
\nShe said there is a lot packed in her book, it has to do with new worlds, new species, death, murder, espionage and conspiracies among other twists and turns.
\nHerrick said she has always been interested in arts, theatre, singing and writing. She used to have write as a teenager with pen and paper.
\n\u201cI never was able to finish a story, I get bored and move on, so I had binders full of written half stories and when COVID hit my husband and I were talking and I said you know I think I want to try to write a full story and actually finished it,\u201d said Herrick.
\nShe said that is how her now published novel came to fruition. She worked at the High River hospital during the start of the pandemic and on her time off she wrote.
\n\u201cI would just type away and escape into my mind,\u201d said Herrick.
\nShe sent her novel to five publishers across Europe and the United States, and four of them accepted her. She chose Page Publishing based out of the United States, and her novel was published in March 2022.
\nHerrick said her book was published while being 49 years old and was accepted by the publishing firm when she was 48 years old.
\n\u201cI\u2019m almost 50 and I just want people to realize that if you have a dream or desire, go for it. It doesn\u2019t matter how old you are, it\u2019s obtainable. It takes hard work but it can happen,\u201d said Herrick.
\nFar Away Home: The Knowing is available on Amazon, Google Play, i-Tunes, and Barnes & Noble.
\n\u201cIf people request my book enough, I hope to soon see my novels in brick and mortar stores like Chapters, as well as small locally-owned book stores,\u201d said Herrick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"