Featuring an exclusive golden shovel poem
One of the valuable bits of advice I did not cover in a recent Friday Five post about the book Writers on Writing was this morsel from the essay by Rosellen Brown (author of Tender Mercies and much more):
Continue reading “Switching it up”If it begins to feel too easy to do something, change forms. Make yourself an amateur in a new genre.
A Q&A with the author of the raw, unflinching pro-life memoir ‘In This House We Lived’
The subtitle of Faith-Ann Dalton‘s debut book In This House We Lived–“A Faith Journey of Choosing Life Again and Again”–is more than a play on her first name. The memoir, which comes out May 8, is a raw and moving account of this first-time author’s struggles to move from a harrowing childhood through an unplanned pregnancy and many other personal trials to establish a life centered around her faith in God and herself.
The publisher, Anointed Colony Media, describes In This House We Lived as “a raw, redemptive memoir of trauma, crisis, faith, and the slow, intentional construction of healthy habits. “
“With unflinching honesty and hard-won clarity, Dalton traces her story of becoming a mother before she was ready, learning to choose herself without abandoning her soul, and discovering that healing doesn’t always mean getting it right—it’s about refusing to give up.”
Now a licensed cosmetologist, married, and a mother of four, Faith-Ann lives in St. James, Missouri.
Read on to learn more about Faith-Ann and her memoir. But first, please read this disclaimer:
Continue reading “Friday Five: Faith-Ann Dalton on her memoir of faith”
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