THE CREATIVE EPIPHANY won a national honored FINALIST AWARD in the 2009 BOOK USA CONTEST in the category of non-fiction narrative. Jo Ann Brown-Scott and the gifted men and women who have contributed stories for this book all received a message that came to them in a Creative Epiphany; delivered from their angel in the darkness, their wisdom, their soul, jolting them forward toward more inspired creativity. They have beat unbeatable odds in order to live their life's longings, some battling overwhelming difficulties of their own making, with passion driving them toward greater self-knowledge...

With her third book Jo Ann Brown-Scott offers a fresh and energetic novel about the life-long evolution of a contemporary woman artist. In her characteristically vivid, painterly voice, at times both irreverent and profound, Brown-Scott composes the story of a maverick, free-spirited woman, awarded with creative DNA and privilege at birth yet scarred with a childhood of loss and family dysfunction. Fueled with these ideal circumstances for artistic creative development, the heroine Annie breaks loose to become the Bohemian abstract artist she was born to be. During her artistic maturation...