As an owner/producer and director of Billabong Studios and www.Billabong-TV.com (online TV Channel) in Seattle Washington, I’m always looking for interesting shows to produce for Billabong-TV.com.

After meeting an amazing women who self-published her true story about the tormented and cruel life she lived as a child in the jungles of Puerto Rico in the mid 40’s, I decided on a theme for a new show. “Let’s Talk Books”.

I wondered how many other great books by self-published authors were out there, and how could I help them gain more exposure?

How I met Sabina

I was sitting on a shuttle bus at the Dallas Airport waiting to head off to the hotel, when a little old lady shuffled up to the door and climbed in next to me. She smiled as she introduced herself as Jacqueline Jorgenson. We immediately struck up a conversation.

She began telling me about the book she had written, and pulled a copy out of her bag and handed it to me. We continued to chat and made arrangements to meet while we where at the hotel.

I had some time to spare after settling into my hotel room, so I decided to read the first few pages of Jackie’s book. I sat on the end of the bed not expecting to go past the first page or two, but five hours had passed and I was having trouble putting it down. I was totally hooked.

Sabina’s story is inspirational, and gives hope to those who believe there’s no way out.

I’ve included the first part of Chapter one. I hope you feel the same way I did when I first read it.

Beginning of first chapter.

My Escape

When the first rooster crowed, I stepped out into the chill of dawn, opening the kitchen door slowly, so that the squeak of rusty hinges would not awaken my parents. The image of my father’s red face and bloodshot eyes, as he held his sharp machete at my throat the previous night, was still painfully vivid in my mind. I went under the house, which was on stilts, as most houses in the hills of Puerto Rico were, and I waited.

The thick forest surrounding the house was still as dark as the bottom of an iron pot, and would stay like that for at least another hour. At daybreak, I would run to the river, and follow it to the big city on the west end of the island, where I would make a good life for myself. I had heard my parents talk about kids who had run away from home. One girl had survived and became a nun, but others had never been heard from again. I hung onto the hope that I would survive. I had to, and one day come back to help my little sister and brothers escape from our parents’ drunkenness and brutality.

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Here are a few reviews from some of Sabina’s biggest fan.

Cathy
WOW!! BESTSELLER QUALITY!
I started reading this book on Saturday morning and finished itby Sunday afternoon-430 or so pages, WOW! Couldn’t put it down and forced myself to stay awake to continue reading until my eyes were so blurry I couldn’t stay awake any longer.

Connie, a reviewer
An engrossing page-turner
Here’s a book that again shows the power of the human spirit to overcome odds that for many of us would be insurmountable.

Pete, a reviewer
This book won’t let you go once you start it

Michael, a reviewer
I just couldn’t put the book down!
This is one of those kind of books that one you start reading, you don’t want to stop!

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Just like the people above, I also couldn’t put this book down.

This is an amazing story.

Buy this book directly from Sabina, (Jacqueline Jorgensen) and ask her to sign it for you.

Visit Sabina’s website and experience what I experienced when I read “Beyond Mud and Vines”

Carol Carini

www.Billabong-TV.com