Featured Interview With Rue Mayweather
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I’m a native Arkansan. I grew up in Sparkman, Arkansas. Graduated High School and moved to Dallas, Texas enroute to Philadelphia. Love tapped me on the shoulder, I got married in Dallas and had my favorite and only child.
Dallas, Texas is currently my home.
I don’t have any pets however I do love plants succulents and rare plants.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
My love for books and reading has always been of great importance probably since 4th or 5th grade. Penning a book was an entirely different galaxy.
When I was four years old I experienced a traumatic event that I locked in my subconscious until I was eleven years old. To this day, there’s no memory of what jarred the recollection of the incident when I was four.
Yet to me a strange occurrence just birth itself. God gave me the title for this book, No Gold At The End Of The Rainbow (NGoR). Yes, I ignored it.
Every year or two I would be reminded of this title and I continued to ignore it 1) this is a very painful story and 2) I had no intention of writing it.
I ignored this assignment for 40 years. It wasn’t until I was deploying to Iraq that I realized that I needed to be obedient. I sat down and penned NGoR in about two weeks.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love stories by the late J Califoria Cooper, Vickie Stringer, Vanessa Miller, Michelle McKinney Hammond, Catherine Coulter (FBI Series), Pastor Rickie G. Rush & Metro Authors Group books
I will read all genres or try to.
Being a news junkie, my writings are inspired by real world events
Tell us a little about your latest book?
No Gold is a sticky-finger page turner novel/memoir that won’t let you put it down once you start reading it. The story is 60+ years old yet is so prevalent to today’s society. The father is 17 years older than the mother and allegedly stole the mother from his oldest son whom she was courting. The mother is a smooth dark chocolate with strong Indian features and long black hair whom any man would want.
To this union 14 children were born, 7 boys and 7 girls. Often, the children would hear their mother say she married into slavery. This was not the life she planned. She had no idea that some 35 years later, Chapter One of No Gold At The End Of The Rainbow would be written.
I still see her propped up against the wall in the kitchen. Muck was all over the floor, and I wondered, What could have happened? In my young mind, I didn’t recall hearing any noise or even where I was when this incident occurred. I just happened to walk into the kitchen from somewhere and saw her sitting there by the wall…not moving, eyes closed. I was only four years old at the time and didn’t really know what to think. I just knew the person propped up against the wall was my mother. It didn’t occur to me that she could be dead or needed help. The sight of her sitting there traumatized me to such a degree that I locked it in my subconscious for seven years.
At that particular moment, I knew my life would change. The innocence of yesterday was lost to me forever, and although I was only four years old at the time, I knew that I’d never forget that day or the adverse impact it would have on my life.
During the period that the incident occurred, eleven children had been born to my father and mother’s marriage union, and I was the youngest of the eleven – curious, smart, inquisitive, and cute!
As I recall now after all those years, it is peculiar that I could remember my age on the day of the incident. My family moved a lot when I was young, yet I am certain I was four years old when the incident happened.
Why I finally recalled this incident is unclear to me. I do know, however, that when I did recall it, God gave me the title for this book. I was eleven years old then and had no interest whatsoever in writing a book. My desire was to become a fashion designer!
What I learned after 40 years was 1) God Always has the First & Last Say and 2) I had to live the book before I could write it! Although the book is centered around the 50’s its plight is filled with domestic violence, mental illness, cocaine use, homosexuality and military fratricide. Enoy
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