By Alexis Lomax<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NABJ Monitor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n A college student\u2019s completion of a college capstone course has also turned into her first published book currently selling on Amazon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe, people\u201d<\/a> is the first book written by Amaris I. Manning, a recent alum of Neumann University in Aston, Pennsylvania, who majored in communications and digital media and minored in criminal justice and political science. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Manning had been working on the book since high school, which is the setting for the storyline that chronicles the life of a teenage girl in her sophomore year and the new people who enter her life after her best friend moves away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So where does one get the time and energy to publish a book while juggling work and school? Manning credits the COVID-19 pandemic, which gave her some free time. While others sat at home binge watching Netflix, Manning used the time to her advantage and finished what she had started. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The free time also gave her space to think and create elements that she had planned to farm out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe pandemic not only helped with getting the work done, but it also helped me explore with what I could do with the work,\u201d she said. She dove deeper into her artwork instead of paying someone else to create it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It has always been a dream of Manning\u2019s to be a published author, especially a \u201csuccessful author,\u201d she said. Since she was a child, writing was both Manning\u2019s voice and her area of comfort. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI didn\u2019t know how to use my voice, and I found comfort in writing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With her first book out and selling on Amazon, Manning has already begun drafting her second book \u201cDepend on Me.\u201d Manning describes her second book not as a sequel to the first but one that follows the events of \u2018We, People.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere\u2019s a different perspective from it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To find out more about Amaris I. Manning, her books, and artwork, visit her <\/strong>website here<\/strong><\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Alexis Lomax NABJ Monitor A college student\u2019s completion of a college capstone course has also turned into her first published book currently selling on Amazon. \u201cWe, people\u201d is the first book written by Amaris […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,224],"tags":[304,307,305,33,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-2473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-archives","8":"category-nabj-21","9":"tag-alexis-lomax","10":"tag-amaris-manning","11":"tag-book","12":"tag-nabj","13":"tag-nabj21"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions\/2479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}