Write Now Literary is pleased to be organizing a two-week book tour for My 1st Investments Coloring Book by R. LaMont. W, V. Honey Savoy and Khaliah T Ingram. The book tour will run July 19-30, 2021.
Genre:Non-Fiction/Education
ISBN-13: 978-1519467249
Reading age: 7 - 9 years
Grade level: 2 - 3
Book Title: My 1st Investments Coloring Book
R. LaMont. W
B. A. Degree from UC Davis and an MBA in Finance and Investments from Golden Gate University with 44 years of finance and investment experience.
V. Honey Savoy
B. A. Degree from the University of Phoenix and author of “What Time is It?”, a children’s book on how to tell time, published in 2007.
Khaliah T Ingram
B. A. Degree in Art Studio from the California State University, Sacramento. She is a digital art/freelance artist since 2005...Gallery online at: www.envyskort.deviantart.com
My 1st Investment Coloring Book (the ABC’s of Investments) is dedicated to children and their families who foster a desire to develop financial knowledge. It is a beginner’s guide to developing knowledge critical to their prosperity which is not taught in elementary schools during a child’s formative years. It is the groundwork and the beginning of a foundation for learning financial literacy. Designed as a resource guide it is a keepsake for future reference.
Learning to read this book plants the seed for financial success and provides knowledge that can never be taken away.
My 1st Investments Coloring Book is a book of characters describing the letters of the alphabet and their meanings. A Glossary of the full definition of each letter and word is located at the end.
A stands for Account, Asset and Annuity
B stands for Bank, Bond and Broker
C stands for Cash, Cryptocurrency and Check
D stands for Dividend, Deposit and Debt
E stands for Equity, Enterprise and Earnings
1) Q: Why do you write the kind of books you do?
A: My genre is financial literacy. Everything in my life is based on teaching financial literacy whether it is a resource book, a novel or a workbook.
2) Q: How has being published changed your life?
A: God gave me a calling to get my knowledge of financial literacy to my community for those who have been left behind. I realized people actual listen to my teachings. I figured if I was going to leave a legacy it would be putting my knowledge in writing.
3) Q: What are you reading right now?
A: I just finished a series of James Patterson novel’s. I am now reading and taking lessons from the “Master Class” of successful fiction writers in order to learn how to keep my readers engaged while learning at the same time.
4) Q: What is your current work in progress?
A: I am in the final editing stages of a novel called “The IPO Conspiracy”. It is a book on an Initial Public Offering of a modeling agency. The company has a mole inside that wants the founder of the company dead so they can reap the benefits of $30 million in stock while using it as a front for a sex trafficking network.
5) Q: How do you choose your settings for each book?
A: My settings evolve as research and I create the story.
6) Q: If you could spend an evening with one person who is currently alive, who would it be and why?
A: My grandmother Emily Carroll Woods-Ford. She was the patriarch of my fathers side of the family who migrated from New Orleans, LA and brought two brothers and three of her sisters to California. By the time I was born in 1948 she was a successful entrepreneur owning a hotel, several houses in Oakland, Berkeley, and Stockton. She was the spiritual leader of the Church of God and Christ in Berkeley in from the 1940’s through the 1960’s. She was a community and family leader. I would love to pick her brains on what drove her to her successes.
7) Q: What are your hobbies, besides writing and reading?
A: I am a red wine maker with a green thumb (I grow flowers and vegetables) and an active educator for the “Greater Sacramento Financial Literacy Group”.
8) Q: My book is called “My 1st Investment Coloring Book”.
A: My 1st Investment Book is an alphabet book on the ABC’s of investments where A stands for Asset, B stands for Bank, C stands for Cash, D stands for Debt…It is designed to teach children investment nomenclature for pre-k through nine year olds.
9) Q: How do you choose between ideas you’d like to write about?
A: Dreams: I dream in vivid colors of all sorts of fictional situations. I wake up around 2:30 a.m. every morning dreaming about life stories. I spend at least 30 minutes to one hour writing an outline about certain dreams.
10) Q: What’s on the horizon for you? What will you be writing next?
A: When I finish my current novel I will be writing fourteen short stories called “Stories from the Institute”. These stories are based on name of my company, the Institute for Investment Education (a fictional school). The stories will focus on the Fundamentals of Money Management and how the use and misuse of money impacts the lives of the families who’s children attends the school.
