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Erica D. Hearns

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Born

in Pontiac, MI, The United States

February 24, 1985

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Erica Denise Hearns first began writing at the age of five with a story about a princess named Jasmine (which she insists was NOT based on the Disney fairytale). She was first published at the age of eight and has won numerous creative writing and oratory awards. She has published several poems and essays and even authored an advice column for the newsletter for the Horizons-Upward Bound program. She graduated with a B.A. in English from the University of Central Florida in 2008.

Erica was inspired to write Altered before the Altar when she realized that the teenage and young adult women she taught needed some help putting dating, love and relationships into the proper perspective—and so did she. Altered before the Altar is Erica’s first pu ...more

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Ericka is an author, freelance writer, podcaster, and mom of two living in Indianapolis, Indiana, with her husband Rick.

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“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
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“E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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