Jacqueline D'Acre

My life spans over seventy years from the end of World War II and horse-drawn milk delivery wagons to TV in 1953 and at age ten I'd read every book in the children's library: I was sent upstairs to the adult section. I bred Weimaraner dogs at age twelve, then had to get away from abuse at home so I joined the RCAF.

I Am Not Slain, My Memoir starts with horse-drawn milk delivery wagons in a sleepy little Canadian town (and heinous abuse) to exotic Arabian horses on my stud farm in Louisiana. I lived and worked in Winnipeg, San Francisco, Alaska, Spokane, New Orleans, Mississippi, back to New Orleans and finally back to Canada. Follow me as I segue from an Airwoman in the RCAF, to a cocktail waitress, commercial artist, scholarship student at university in San Francisco, then to Alaska as a media buyer and copywriter. Next came Spokane where I was a Creative Director and horse trainer. Throughout I met and (reluctantly) married three men. I had my daughter—who was developmentally delayed. In New Orleans I opened a film/video production company and created shows for Big Oil in the Gulf of Mexico. My first novel was published to great reviews, then my second, also to excellent reviews.

I experienced the greatest parts of the twentieth century: The Fifties and rock and roll, the Sixties and change, Seventies, Eighties, Nineties, the arrival of the 21st century and the beginning of my Last Career: Successful Author.