Memoir. Women’s fiction. Parenting. Children.“Raising Julie” focuses on the topic of the Golden Child syndrome, childhood neglect, and the consequences.By using short, colorful, detailed vignettes, the author illustrates how NPD control and neglect, even the most subtle, can impact a child’s lifelong wellbeing.One of the most poignant episodes left Julie with permanent facial paralysis at seventeen, a huge life-change to deal with. Julie’s mother, a college educator, abhorred the idea of … [Read more...]
Interview with Tarra Stariell
Sanity Lost & Found (Memoir, abuse, cult, personal growth, inspirational) How do we become victims of our own irrationality? What makes us vulnerable to the predators among us? Why would an otherwise sensitive, intelligent woman allow herself to return again and again to her abuser? How do we stop the erosion of our self-worth? Simultaneously recognizable and horrifying, we see parts of ourselves and our own vulnerabilities in this compelling story of one woman’s descent into and climb … [Read more...]
New Release: Some Bright Morning, I’ll Fly Away
When Hurricane Katrina rolls through Alice’s small town of Ocean Springs, MS she doesn’t anticipate that the rest of her life is going to go up in smoke with it. After her husband, a powerful local doctor, attacks her at knifepoint and nearly kills her (only to be saved by her persistent 3-year old son), she files for divorce and enters an epic, gothic, FEMA-trailer courtroom divorce and custody battle that lasts for almost ten years. Through court hearings and attempted kidnappings, love … [Read more...]