2017 New York Book Festival Honorable Mention Award ...WITHOUT A VOICE takes you on a journey across three states in the 1840s, traveling with Sarah and her daughters as they learn about their own strengths and abilities, and as they discover a new life with family and friends.
Sarah's younger brother knows that she hides a secret, and he wants to help her break free from the pain she is hiding from others. Sarah wonders, though, if she is courageous enough to break the chains that tie her to a life of suffering and sorrow. She fears that she is not strong enough to care for her two young daughters alone.
I am a poet, a published author, and a writing consultant living in Germantown, Tenn. I am also a writer-at-large for Southern Writers Magazine. As a published author, my works include Looking, Seeing (2018), Without a Voice (2017), Two Frontiers (2016), Writing Your Faith Journey (2016), Look to See Me: A Collection of Reflections (2006) and Reflections on Suffering: Defining Our Crosses and Letting Go of Pain (2012).
I speak to writing groups on topics such as self-publishing, how to find your own creative voice and how to break writer's block. Along with speaking to writing groups, I also speak nationally to churches and nonprofit organizations on a variety of motivational and spiritual topics. Current speaking series: Writing Your Faith: A Guide to Leaving a Written Faith Legacy and Defining Suffering: Carrying our Cross and Letting Go of Pain. I also speak to young adults and senior high youth on being aware of domestic violence issues and dating violence issues which still affect so many families in our nation.