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A.M. Torres (born 1970) grew up in East New York Brooklyn. She is the third youngest of seven children. A.M. has earned a Bachelor's Degree in Social Science with an Education Concentration program at Ashford University. Her long time ambition has always been writing. Love Child is her first novel (2011). A.M. just released her second book in January 2013. J and K Christmas is a Kindle book of Christmas poems and some short stories. A.M. Torres is in the process of completing the sequel to Love Child called Child No More.
She lives in New York with her sons Jason and Kristofer and their father Walter.
NOVELS[edit]
° Love Child (2011)
POETRY[edit]
° J and K Christmas (2013)
'Love Child'
Main article: Tommy Hulette
Published by Outskirts Press, Love Child is about Tommy Hulette, a love child who should never have been... Or so it seems to everyone around him. Tommy Livan Hulette hates his ghetto neighborhood but he's content to have his family. He is content to have his friends, and content to have his stickball. Then comes the day when his morther and father are suddenly fighting and just like that his mother sinks into depression leaving Tommy to care for his sister Greta who is very afraid of her mother's mood swings... Things go from bad to worse when their mother suddenly kills herself... And, Tommy's life is changed forever. In the midst of this shocking and devastating development Tommy learns a horrible secret from his father... A secret that sends him to the home of a new relative, a relative he never knew he about. A relative who wants to punish him just for being born... A relative who hates him for no reason at all... or so it seems... as Tommy realizes that his life was never as it seemed... Nothing is as it seems... Can Tommy keep Greta safe as he tries to overcome the violence... and the lies that are inflicted on him on an almost daily basis?
'J and K Christmas'
J and K Christmas is a compilation of Christmas poems, short stories and a reflection of Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.
REFERENCES[edit]
http://outskirtspress.com/webpage.php?ISBN=978-1-4327-6411-1