CrossBooks Author Billie Buckley Gives all Book Proceeds to Children

Jan. 30, 2010 - Put Some Good On My Life author Billie Buckley is passing along more good to children in the Good Shepherd Children's Home and School in Honduras. She decided that every profit she makes on her book sales will go directly toward buying uniforms for the children in Honduras. For years she had already been giving the profits she makes from writing a monthly column in the Hattiesburg American newspaper, but she wanted to do more for the children through her new book.

After visiting the school ten years ago with her husband, a pastor, Buckley felt compelled to give the children she met something that would make them feel like they belonged to a community. She settled on uniforms - something all children in Honduras wear to school. She plans to use her additional book proceeds to buy even more uniforms for the children.

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About the Book Billie Buckley, through her thought provoking distinct writer's voice welcomes you into her real world. She shares honestly, in a humorous way, her needs and struggles about living life to its fullest. Billie never writes from an Ivory Tower, but from living life to the fullest. Nor should you look for organization, because there it none. She understands you simply can not organize your heart. She writes about the ordinary in hopes someone can see the "Wow!" in the other wise "ho-hum" days. She wrote this book as a way to compile the best of her over 20 years of writing a column in her local newspaper.

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