Vid: Greatest Miss Marple + Journey of Jerrice J. Baptiste’s Book

It’s an understatement to call querying for a really stellar literary agent “daunting” (here’s info on my novels). Since perseverance wins the game for so many things, I work to keep up my confidence. For instance, I seek out success stories like that of today’s guest. Also, I’m constantly on the lookout for movies and books that depict singular women who didn’t let allow aging to slow them down.

My latest movie find is 1961’s “Murder She Said.” I challenge anyone to not be tickled by Margaret Rutherford’s smart/funny/original depiction of Miss Marple. A behind-the-scenes romantic tidbit is that Margaret always made screenwriters add in roles for her husband, Stringer Davis…

Today’s guest, Jerrice J Baptiste, visited HBT before, this time and this time. She’s donating half the proceeds from her latest book, “Coral in The Diaspora,” to Ecole Mixte La Redemption, which is an impoverished primary school in Cite Soleil, Haiti!

Below she relays how “Coral in the Diaspora” is taking flight — plus, she gifts us a photo of her dashing great-grandfather Laurore and a preview of her next book…