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This website introduces the written works of JB Stearns, a contemporary author channeling bygone eras as well as modern ideas.
- JB's first novel, Blood Sacrifice: Refusal to Protect, concerns child sexual abuse and the grown daughter's badly torn relationship with her mother, who refused to protect her from her father's sexual advances.
- JB Stearns, Vampire: A Life in 8 Ages, is an "autobiographical" novel of the author as Vampire, written, of course, tongue in cheek. The character is based upon the author's great-great-great grandfather, Junius Brutus Stearns, a nineteenth century painter.
- Iris Waites, a sequel to Blood Sacrifice, features the best friend of Blood's protagonist Susan Calahan as the title character. Iris is a victim of Munchausen's by proxy syndrome. Her mother deliberately made her ill in order to gain attention for herself. The long lasting effects on Iris, well into adulthood, do not go unnoticed by others. Iris's journey from abused child to independent, feisty woman is well documented here. An excerpt should be available soon.
- Other works appear here, such as short stories like, For The Love of Mike. JB's other websites are linked here on the menu and elsewhere on the site.
Enjoy your reading.
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Susan Calahan Campagna was the first in her family to get a graduate degree, to become a secular humanist, to open her own business, to be the aunt of her first husband's son - while they were still married, and the only one to tell the truth about her father. Unfortunately, she told that truth to her mother - who refused to protect her.
So, Susan has had to make do. Figure out how to parent herself, since the two people who should have reneged on the deal.
Being an architect has had more than artistic appeal for Susan. Being an interior architect is a meta-representation of Susan's lifelong quest - to build her own house where her heart was, to build it safe, strong, and pain resistant. Designing and organizing other people's lives was easy. The hard part was coming home to take care of her own.
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A mother's love should convey more than a refusal to protect.
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