DULUTH AUTHOR SEEKS TO EMPOWER YOUNG GIRLS WITH NEW BOOK

It's not too much of a stretch to say that Duluth resident Belinda M. Ford's writing career began with a "Dear John" letter. Ford, the author of recently self-published children's book "Mommy Tell Me About When You Were Little."... It was kind of thrust upon me" said Ford, who has lived in Gwinnett County for 28 years. "The first time I knew I could write was in fourth grade". Every summer we went to Mississippi to see our grandparents. I met a little boy one summer and he declared his love for me. I gave him my address and he wrote a letter talking about marriage and all that,... "So I am writing him back at the kitchen table at home and told him he could not be my boyfriend and I was not going to marry him. I didn't know my Mother was looking over my shoulder. She told me, "You really write well." And that was where it started....(quotes from the article)