Title: Santa Claus and Little Sister
Author: Dr. Brian G Snow
ISBN: 978-1467971942
Page count: 306
Genre: Fiction
Price: $12.99
Author Bio:
Dr. Brian G Snow was born in Massachusetts, graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree from Boston College and received a Doctorate from Georgetown University. Dr. Snow has worked with a wide range of special education students, including gifted students under The National Science Foundation program at Brandeis University. Dr. Snow taught special education at various school districts in California in the counties of Los Angeles, San Diego, Contra Costa and Sacramento for over ten years. During this time he educated autistic, mentally and physically challenged, at-risk, abused, gang, and seriously-emotionally disturbed children. Dr. Snow has won many awards, including special recognition from Boston’s Department of Health and Hospitals for his dedicated service to the children of Boston. Dr. Snow was also on staff at Massachusetts General Hospital while residing in Chestnut Hill. Dr. Snow lives in San Diego, California. Please visit: http://drbriangsnow.com for more information
Dr. Brian Snow wrote this novel in his late 20′s. It is unedited and uncensored.
Tell us about your book:
“Santa Claus and Little Sister” is autobiographical in nature, selfishly therapeutic in design, and hard proof that fate does exist.
This is my personal, and often private journey when I was in my 20′s and recently graduated. I was a young optimistic teacher who traveled from East to West to teach at a Los Angeles placement home for at-risk, gang, abused and seriously emotionally disturbed girls.
I discovered that truths often become lies, moral transforms into immoral, and fear truly builds knowledge.
How long did it take to write the book?
I originally started working on the in the early 90′s when I was having difficulty dealing with the loss of one of my favorite students to teenage suicide. Writing became my therapy, of sorts. It was rejected by literary agents back then because they thought they subject matter was too sensitive and that teenage suicide was not a universal problem. I decided to resurrect the book last year, develop some of my characters more, and remove over 13 chapters that I deemed too private.
What inspired you to write the book?
The loss of my favorite student and the frustration that I did not recognize the warning signs of teeange suicide.
Talk about the writing process. Did you have a writing routine? Did you do any research, and if so, what did that involve?
Because the book involves gang lifestyles, drug use, prison scenes, and special educational settings, I had to compliment my writings with extensive research. The subject is serious, and therefore I wanted the facts presented accurately and informative, and yet integrated smoothly with the story.
What do you hope your readers come away with after reading your book?
Just not to judge anyone else until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes….
Where can we go to buy your book?
Dr. Brian G Snow
“Santa Claus and Little Sister”. Released Nov. 24, 2011 ISBN: 978-1467971942
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Excerpt from book:
The novel was inspired by:
“To Santa Claus and Little Sisters”
- A Poem by Anonymous.
Once on yellow paper, with green lines, he wrote a poem and called it “Chops” because that was the name of his dog and that’s what it was all about, and the teacher gave him an “A” and a gold star and his mother hung it on the kitchen door and read it to all his aunts That was the year his little sister was born with tiny toenails and no hair, and Father Tracey took them to the zoo and let them sing on the bus, and his father and mother kissed a lot and the girl around the corner sent him a Christmas card signed with a row of kisses and his father always tucked him in at night and he was always there to do it. Once on white paper, with blue lines, he wrote another poem and he called it “Autumn” because that was the name of the season and that’s what it was about and the teacher gave him an “A” and told him to write more clearly and his mother didn’t hang it on the kitchen door because the door had just been painted. That was the year that his sister got glasses with black frames and thick lenses and the kids told him why his mother and father kissed a lot and that Father Tracy smoked cigars and left the butts on the pews and the girl round the corner laughed when he went to see Santa Claus at Woolworths and his father stopped tucking him in at bed at night and got mad when he cried for him to Once on paper torn from his notebook, he wrote another poem and he called it “Question Marked Innocence” because that was the name of his grief and that’s what it was all about and the professor gave him an “A” and a strange and steady look and his mother never hung it in the kitchen door because he never let her see it That was the year he found his sister necking in the back room and his parents never kissed or even smiled and he forgot the end of the Apostles Creed and Father Tracey died and the girl around the corner wore too much make up and made him cough when he kissed her, but he kissed her anyway Once at 3am he tucked himself in bed, his father snoring loudly he tried another poem on the back of a pack of matches and called it absolutely nothing, because that’s what it was all about and he gave himself an “A” and a slash on each damp wrist and hung it on the bathroom door because he couldn’t reach the kitchen. Anon
