I Won't Stop Pedaling

Hello, gang.  My posts are few and far between these days.  Perhaps you can now understand that I went MIA in the blogosphere in order to work on STILL STANDING.  Can you believe it??  Yours truly can officially call herself a published author?  What in the world, right?  Who would have ever thunk such a thing to be possible??  Certainly not I.  Certainly not the chica that couldn’t seem to write a paper to save her life whilst in college.  Certainly not me.  Well how the hell did this happen??  It’s funny…I can now think back on the sequence of events and it unfolds just like any story told on the big screen.  Lord knows I had no clue, but God knew what He was doing.  I was always meant to write STEPPING ON A FEW TOES, and I was also destined to write STILL STANDING – all the while professing to others, “I’m really not a writer.”  Hahahaa…  Well let me tell you; I stand corrected.  With all the pride, assurance, and confidence in the world I can boldly tell you:

Jasmynne Shaye is an actor, a writer, a public speaker, a nutritionist, a child’s rights activist, a life coach, and a girl that refuses to quit.  That’s me.  And I’m damned proud of it.

Tonight at 7pm, will be the official unveiling of STILL STANDING, and I could not be more excited.  I landed in New York City December 4, 2012 and on December 18, 2013 STILL STANDING was officially published.  Boy oh boy…God is such a trickster.  What a magician this fella’ is…and all I can do is smile.

I’m so grateful, ya’ll, I really am.  I just a girl that came from absolutely nothing.  I don’t have famous parents.  We were dirt poor when I was a kid, and I saw and experienced things that no child should ever have to go through – even still I stand (well I’m sitting at the moment) before you seemingly put-together, and not falling apart at the seams.  Hear me when I say that when shit was hitting the fan (and everything else) it was my dreams that held me together.  I refused to believe that God would allow any of those things to be the ending to my story – I just refused.  And because I’m so dog’on hard-headed and stubborn, I pushed through, and kept on pushing until…well until I found myself here.  And I’m not done pushing.  I have no idea where my road will take me from here, but I thought I’d take a moment to hop off my bike and let you know how everything is going.  I honestly could not be happier.  Thank you to all those out there that have continued to support me through the years, it truly means so much – seriously, it does.

Now, I’m gonna climb back on my bike and get to pedaling because I’ve got places to go.  My first stop???  You already know…

TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT!!

The Official Premiere of STILL STANDING

Bluestockings Bookstore

172 Allen Street

New York, NY

7pm (sharp)

My name is Jasmynne Shaye, and this is me STEPPING ON A FEW TOES.