Prissy Mag's Editor and Founder Priscilla Lalisse-Jespersen has released her second book entitled, Next of Kin, an emotional memoir dedicated to her father, Eddie who passed away suddenly in June 2010 in Alabama. Half of all Next of Kin book sales will be donated to The American Cancer Society’s Joe Lee Griffin Hope Lodge in Birmingham, AL. Hope Lodge offers accommodations at no cost for cancer patients being treated in the Birmingham area.

This is your first published work.  What were your expectations when you first wrote it?
I didn't have any particular expectations.  I simply wanted to get published on my own terms.  For eight years, I had been kicking around ideas, but the only time I could really write was at night.  Then, I would be too exhausted to do it.  With a husband, two children and my own business, I was just too busy to focus.  I would write snippets here and there, but it probably took me five years to actually formulate the pieces into one coherent story.  I'm a procrastinator at heart.  Then one day, with a big push from family and friends, I realized that I needed to finish at least one story.  To do so, I had to admit that I wasn't really interested in writing a novel at all.  I just wanted to tell some good stories.  Once I made peace with that revelation, the pressure was off.