Cynthia with with Tenesha L. Curtis of WriterwerxUniversity.com

Women Awakening with Cynthia James

At (what is now called) University of Louisville hospital in Louisville, Kentucky early on a Friday morning in 1986, I was brought into the world. Healthy, happy, and the product of two loving, wise parents, I grew up with a strong sense of family and connection, even though I was an introvert! From infancy, books and storytelling were a constant in my life. My mother works at the Louisville Free Public Library, my father read to me each night while I was growing up, and both of them would often answer my (rather strange, I’ll admit) questions with anecdotal stories instead of a terse “yes” or “no.” The storyteller in me began to awaken.
Ever stubborn, it wasn’t long before I pried the copies of Dr. Seuss purchased for me from the hands of my father and took over reading duties for myself. As I consumed book after book, I started to want to take over the writing reins as well. That’s how the stories I wrote in notebooks and on my computer at home came to be. I would share what I wrote with friends and family, getting critiques on plot, character development, and even spelling and grammar from my mother, father, aunts, uncles, classmates, and teachers.
Since graduating high school, I’ve worked as a teacher’s assistant, telemarketer, psychotherapist, insurance agent, customer service rep, and cashier, all while writing on the side. In 2010, as I was starting my first job after graduate school and had just purchased my first home, I began helping people with their writing needs for money. From that point forward, I was hooked. The possibility of being able to make a living doing something that I would (and had) done for free was all the motivation I needed to start working toward a writer’s lifestyle. Today, I am the CEO and founder of Volo Press Books, which allows me to help authors with their book planning, writing, editing, and design needs.
I started WriterwerxUniversity.com to offer literary education and support for screenwriters, novelists, poets, and other text-based creatives. My husband started Pleascentries and I took it over from him and turned it into a literary style shop, allowing writers to show off their love of literature with special designs just for readers and writers. Oh, yeah! I’m also an independent author myself! I have written in multiple genres, including psychological thriller, mystery, romance, erotica, fantasy, and self-help. I am slowly polishing and publishing the work I’ve been writing since I was a child so that I can get it all out onto the book market. Never miss an update! Follow me on Amazon, Goodreads, BookBub, and Facebook.