BOOKMONGERS PUBLISHING COMPANY PRESENTS
NYCKI WHITING
UNCONDITIONAL
Heart wrenching and thought-provoking, these stories take you on an emotional journey to a crossroad where you will be inspired to love unconditionally. It begins with the Author’s Notes and insightful descriptions of the Ages of Unconditional Love. The journey continues with the touching story of Nia’s mysterious return in The Visit. Has she come to receive unconditional love?
From there you travel through the provocative story, The Breakup. It will challenge you to determine whether love or obsession inspired Victoria to walk away from her dreams. But is mere love ever enough to sustain a relationship? That is the question Elizabeth must answer in the enlightening story Second Thoughts. Will she walk away from the “perfect” wedding and the “perfect” groom? This is a must read for anyone considering a romantic relationship.
In the probing story, Setting A Screen, guilt is clearly the motivating emotion. Through daily journal entries, the protagonist examines her personal demons as well as God’s reasons for Hurricane Camille and Katrina. How will a basketball play help her?
The journey concludes with a look at the tenaciousness of parental love. In the true story, Troubled, Cameron’s parents determine that he is on a path that can only lead to incarceration or death. Their unconditional love induces them to make an excruciating decision. Conversely, in Coral’s Apology, an unexpected change in mind-set causes Coral to comprehend the pain that she’s inflicted on her parents. Who will apologize?
Query: Is your love truly . . . unconditional?
What are the critics saying?
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“Moving! Inspirational! Nycki Whiting pierces the core of our beings with Unconditional. We are compelled to seek, define, and fulfill unconditional love in our own lives. What a treasure!”
Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore, Author of Living with a Passion
"Unconditional is simply beautiful. It gives us hope."
Shelia P. Moses, Author, National Book Finalist and Coretta Scott King Honors Award
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AUTHOR'S NOTES FROM UNCONDITIONAL
BY NYCKI WHITING@2005
The Ages of Unconditional Love
When I was 10, unconditional love smelled like coffee with lots and lots of Carnation Milk® and lots and lots of sugar. The kind I used to drink while sitting on the small porch of our Detroit bungalow with my mother. The same kind that I now drink daily in the form of a Starbucks® iced, Grande, latte, decaf, soy with two sweeteners. Whenever my mother let me drink coffee with her while we kept our feet up on the railing so that our ankles wouldn’t swell, I knew I was loved. Of course, my ankles never swelled. But my mother who, in hindsight, seemed to be pregnant an awful lot during my childhood, had numerous problems with her ankles, her blood sugar and the poison levels in her blood. I can never remember what that is called. But I can remember how those therapeutic days felt and how that coffee smelled.
When I was 20, unconditional love sounded like the melodious voice of Chaka Khan and Rufus warming up for the invincible sound of Earth, Wind, and Fire. Chaka was smaller and younger then and so was I. Sitting on the lawn at Pine Knob, a ski mountain turned concert venue for the summer, drinking wine with that young, engineering student who had put a quarter karat diamond on the correct finger, on the correct hand, at what I thought was the correct time in my life, I knew I was loved. And it must have all been correct because I am still listening to music in open air venues with that student turned man who, on our thirtieth wedding anniversary, replaced the round cut diamond with a three karat marquise.
When I was 30, unconditional love felt like the softness of that baby girl who I had birthed a year earlier. Her long, slim body, her latte colored skin and her consistent need to be wherever I was, was heartwarming and draining at the same time. Whenever she smiled at me or wrapped her soft arms around my neck or told me “I lub you, Mommy,” I knew I was loved. And I know I’m loved now when I hear those same words from her son. Everyday he tells me, even though he is not yet talking.
When I was 40, unconditional love looked like that little boy who was not a part of my body but an immense part of my heart, my soul and my family. Whenever, in the midst of our ups and downs, he would curl up next to me and give me a wet kiss on my cheek, I knew I was loved. By the time he was fifteen, standing six-feet, three inches tall, it was nasty to curl up with his mom. Instead he showed his love by kissing me on the forehead and buying, before its release date, with his own money, and without my requesting, Queen Latifah’s Beauty Shop DVD.
But by the time I made 50, my mother had passed away; my husband though still attentive, had found respite in golf and playing with his grandson; and my children had begun their own quest for unconditional love. It was in that serenity of middle age that I realized that love is best smelled, heard, felt, seen and tasted by effectuating a love for God, myself and for others that is . . .
unconditional
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About the Author
In 2002, Ms. Whiting began writing the Stone Trilogy. However, during the process, she was confronted with what she calls her blessed season of challenges. The raw emotions of those experiences motivated her to write this collection of inspirational stories. Drawing on writing skills derived from practicing fifteen years as a transactional attorney, she was able to weave her emotions and spirituality into these tightly written, fast moving stories.
Unconditional is her debut book and the first publishing of her endeavor into fiction and creative non-fiction. In the summer of 2006, she will complete the first installment of the highly anticipated Stone Trilogy, Grieving a Rollin’ Stone © 2006. The trilogy is influenced by the life and death of her father, a notorious Detroit gangster, bigamist and abuser. It will be followed by the sequels, Semi Precious Stone©2007 and Diamond in the Rough©2008.
Ms. Whiting is a native of Detroit and a graduate of Cass Technical High School and Wayne State University. She completed Georgia State University Law School in Atlanta where she continues to practice law. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., the Atlanta Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Cascade UMC Church and the Lovely Ladies of Atlanta. She resides with her husband, Michael R. Pack, is the mother of two children, Ryan and Jordan, and the grandmother of Carter Wilson Clay.
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