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Vennie Kocsis

Author. Writer. Poet. Artist.

Paranormal fangirl with a caffeine addiction and a soft spot for misfit cats. Probably hiding in the trees, whispering to the moss while plotting my next book.

📍 Pacific Northwest.
☕️ Bring coffee. Stay weird.

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Danielle Davis

Danielle grew up in a leafy Hertfordshire village, with her mum, dad, two sisters and cat, Pugsley. She always loved to write, occasionally unable to put her pen down. It wasn’t unusual as a teenager for her to be found pushing the shopping trolley for her mum and scribbling a poem down at the same time.

As her life changed, writing took a back seat.

Now, at 36 years old, she lives in another leafy village, this time in the Midlands, with her husband, five children and ginger cat Ron. She is qualified as a psychotherapeutic counsellor, and when she isn’t seeing private clients in her little cabin in her garden, she can be found writing the next part to her book.

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David Shurter

Hello, my name is David Shurter and I want to bring further awareness to Ritual Abuse and Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA). My father, way back when I was a child, was a performing high priest in a cult that was practicing in Omaha NE during the 60′s and 70′s, and I built this site in order to investigate the activities that he and his friends were involved with. Much of what I am speaking about also deals with men who were involved in a failed financial institution here in Omaha, NE called the Franklin Credit Union. Drugs, child trafficking, and murder were all a part of this ring, and I wanted to further expose the crimes that were happening here in Omaha. Before my father died, he told people that he had “skeletons in his closet” and that he h

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Carolyn Woods

Carolyn Woods was making a new life for herself in the Cotswolds when she had the misfortune to meet one of Britain’s most notorious conmen. The man she fell in love with, and made plans to marry, she knew as Mark Conway. But in fact he was convicted fraudster Mark Acklom, and over the course of their eighteen-month relationship he would take from her £850,000 of her savings; her dignity and sense of self; and nearly her sanity.

Carolyn studied Comparative Literature and French at the University of East Anglia. She lives in the country with a beautiful ginger cat and finds that life in the slow lane has plenty to recommend it.

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Jaycee Dugard

The kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard occurred on June 10, 1991, when she was 11 years old. Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in South Lake Tahoe, California. Searches began immediately after the kidnapping, but no reliable leads were generated. She remained missing for more than 18 years.

On August 25, 2009, convicted sex offender Phillip Craig Garrido visited the campus of UC Berkeley accompanied by two young girls. Their unusual behavior there sparked an investigation that led to his bringing the two girls to a parole office on August 26, accompanied by a woman who was then identified as Dugard.

Garrido, 58, and his wife Nancy Garrido, 54, of Antioch, California, were arrested for kidnapping and other charge

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Michelle Knight

Michelle Knight was a young single mother when she was kidnapped at the age of 21. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. Now known as Lily Rose Lee, she is an author, activist, speaker, and a survivor living in Cleveland, Ohio with her husband. Lily is passionate about inspiring others and now spends most of her time helping animals and volunteering at local shelters, creating art, and advocating for change to ensure others are safe from the experience she has overcome.

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Anna Ruston

Anna Ruston is the pseudonym of a woman from a troubled family who was then held hostage an abuser by a local taxi driver.

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Timmy Fielding

As a child, I experienced things children should never experience. So when I became an adult, I made a promise to help right the wrongs that I had experienced. I became a counselor and a foster parent taking, in boys and girls that needed a home. I started in 1995 and have helped 30+ children grow into adults. I have 3 adopted boys whom I love and cherish. In 2006 I decided to tell the world my story in hopes that more children can be helped. I hope to give them the help I never had. In 2011 Silent Victims and Untold Stories was released to the public

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Joumana Haddad

Joumana Haddad (جمانة حداد) is a Lebanese poet, translator, journalist and women rights activist.

She’s been selected as one of the world’s 100 most powerful Arab women in March 2014 by CEO magazine Middle East (position 62), for her cultural and social activism.

She is head of the Cultural pages for "An Nahar" newspaper, and an instructor of creative writing at the Lebanese American University in Beirut. She’s also the editor-in-chief of Jasad magazine, a controversial Arabic magazine specialized in the literature and arts of the body.

She has already published several essays and poetry collections, widely acclaimed by critics. Her books have been translated to many languages and published abroad.

Speaking seven languages, Haddad is a polyglo

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Louise Allen

From an early age, Louise was adopted into a family who, from the beginning, said they didn’t want her. Her first book, Thrown Away Child, reveals the abuse and neglect she and a fellow adopted child suffered at the hands of their adopted mother, Barbara. Ten years ago, Louise and her family became a fostering family. They have looked after over twenty children, some have stayed long term. This led to the bestselling series, Thrown Away Children, where Louise is inspired by the stories of children in the care system. Within days, the book became a bestseller.

Louise now draws on her experience to write a new series of ‘How to’ books about adoption, fostering and parenting. How to Adopt a Child is the unvarnished truth about adoption. Louise

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Melissa Jordan

Melissa Jordan is my pen name.

I am from Northern Ireland and I have written a memoir detailing my childhood abuse at the hands of my mother and her partner. I have changed the names to protect my identity, my sisters and that of my child.

I have produced an audiobook of No One To Save Me, narrated by a native of Northern Ireland. It will be available in Audible from December 2020.

I am going to continue to self-publish books under my pen name. My main focus being self-help books tackling the issues that I personally have faced. In my next book I want to explore Life after Abuse. The effects abuse has on a child and how those are carried forward into adulthood. I want to explore what it takes to heal so you can trust again. If you can't hav

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Barbara Godin

Barbara Godin is a bestselling author, poet, and advice columnist whose work resonates deeply with readers seeking hope, healing, and connection. Her memoir, Can I Come HOME Now?, a #1 Bestseller, chronicles her journey of overcoming abuse and neglect to reclaim her life, inspiring countless readers to rise above their own challenges. Barbara’s latest poetry collection, Seasons of the Heart, captures the beauty and complexity of human emotion, while her Words of Wisdom series, drawn from her beloved “Dear Barb” columns, offers practical guidance and heartfelt insights. A graduate with a B.A. in English, Barbara’s writing blends raw honesty with lyrical grace. When not crafting stories or advice, she enjoys walking, hiking, biking, and spend

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Sue Julsen

Sue Julsen is a true crime, memoir, and crime fiction author. Most of her books are based on true events from her own life, or from stories shared by her friends.

Sue began her writing career as a means of escape from the emotional scars and repetitive nightmares from her childhood — a life she wouldn't wish on any kid. Because of her childhood, today Sue enjoys the extensive research on most all unsolved cold cases, but writing what she learns is her passion.

If she'd known years ago what she knows today, she could have titled her first book, Bitter Memories: A Memoir of Heartache & Survival....My Father Was A Serial Killer.

Certainly not something she'd like to have included on a resume! However, most of her life, from earlier memories a

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Darrel Day

Darrel Day has written and published four suspense novels titled ‘Abduction’,Penance {the long awaited sequel to Abduction}, ‘Until Death Do We Meet’,Into the Abyss, a Sci-fi titled Ice Changers and a short story series titled The Forest Has Ears. He has published his first "short story" novel, a book with four of his short story fiction thrillers titled "Four Short Stories of Suspense." He is the singer/lyrics writer of over 100 songs and has produced a CD titled "SimplyD" that includes 13 of his favorite songs. Darrel has a great passion for the outdoors and spends as much time as life allows at a lake near his home. He considers the inspiration he finds while walking along the shore line immeasurable. He takes what he sees and transfers

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Sean Boyne

Sean Boyne is a journalist and author, and is currently news editor of The Sunday World, a major Irish newspaper.

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Darlene Deacon

Darlene Deacon has worked as a television news reporter and producer. Darlene is also a character actress and a member of the Screen Actors Guild.
Being a survivor or horrific child abuse, she is now working toward new legislation that would better prosecute child predators.

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Cathy Glass

Cathy Glass is a bestselling British author, freelance writer and foster carer.
Her work is strongly identified with both the True Life Stories and Inspirational Memoirs genres, and she has also written a parenting guide to bringing up children, Happy Kids, and a novel, The Girl in the Mirror, based on a true story.
Glass has worked as a foster career for more than 20 years, during which time she has fostered more than 50 children. Her fostering memoirs tell the stories of some of the children who came in to her care, many of whom had suffered abuse.
The first title, Damaged, was number 1 in the Sunday Times bestsellers charts in hardback and paperback. Her next three titles, Hidden, Cut and The Saddest Girl in the World, were similarly succes

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Caroline Finnerty

Thank you for visiting my author page. I am an Irish author living on the banks of the Grand Canal in Co. Kildare with my husband and our four young children. My books have been described as emotional tearjerkers and always have a big dilemma at their heart. I love to explore the different sides of human behaviour and why we do what we do. My 5th book THE LAST DAYS OF US will be published by Boldwood in June 2021. You can find out more about me on my website www.carolinefinnerty.ie or contact me on Facebook (carolinefinnertywriter) or Twitter (@cfinnertywriter).

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Louise Allen

From an early age, Louise was adopted into a family who, from the beginning, said they didn’t want her. Her first book, Thrown Away Child, reveals the abuse and neglect she and a fellow adopted child suffered at the hands of their adopted mother, Barbara. Ten years ago, Louise and her family became a fostering family. They have looked after over twenty children, some have stayed long term. This led to the bestselling series, Thrown Away Children, where Louise is inspired by the stories of children in the care system. Within days, the book became a bestseller.

Louise now draws on her experience to write a new series of ‘How to’ books about adoption, fostering and parenting. How to Adopt a Child is the unvarnished truth about adoption. Louise

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Diane M. Dresback

Diane M. Dresback enjoys sharing stories through novels, self-help books, and films. She writes unique women’s thrillers that often tackle thought-provoking subjects and are quick, engaging reads. Usually, they involve strong female characters paired with a psychological, sci-fi, or medical element. Her latest fiction story is a trilogy that begins with one character waking up in a stranger's body.

She also ventures into true stories, such as her two adoption novels, which are based on her own and her brother’s adoption journeys, and a book featuring stories from 25 inspirational women who share their struggles and triumphs to bring hope and inspiration to others.

In 2007, Diane M. Dresback began working in the independent film industry in Ar

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Bethany Yeiser

Before her gradual descent into schizophrenia, Bethany Yeiser was a promising university honors student. By her third year at the university, she had published three articles in biochemistry, and was working as a violinist. In 2002, following her junior year of college, she spent three months as a volunteer in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya and Lagos, Nigeria, living in poverty. After her return from Africa, she had her first psychotic break. Because of undiagnosed and untreated mental illness, she was no longer able to focus on her studies. The insidious emergence of schizophrenia led her on a path away from the university and into a life of delusion and isolation. In 2003, Bethany left college, only to become homeless for four years. Eventua

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Hope Daniels

There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads data base.
For the paranormal romance author, see Hope Daniels.

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Jane Elliott

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

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Evelyn Prentis

Brought up in Lincolnshire, Evelyn Prentis (real name Evelyn Taws) left home at eighteen to become a nurse. She later moved to London during the war, where she married and raised her family. Like so many other nurses, she went back to hospital and used any spare time she might have had bringing up her children and running her home.
Evelyn Prentis died in 2001 at the age of 85. Her daughters Judith Campbell and Barbara Mumford say: ‘We have always felt that these books are special, as indeed was our mother. She was a larger than life character with a disarming and extreme sense of humour. We are delighted that our mother’s books are being republished. We miss her greatly and are thrilled that her legacy lives on for another generation.’

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Joe Peters

There are (at least) two Joe Peters represented by the assortment of books that Goodreads has assigned to the name "Joe Peters." Until Goodreads gets around to sorting one Joe from the other, make the best of what you can.

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Marnie Grundman

Runaway | Homeless Youth | Missing Foster Children Advocate and Expert

Marnie Grundman is the author of MISSING: A True Story of a Childhood Lost. Marnie has been a featured TEDx speaker and on major television and radio shows such as Breakfast Television, Global News, CP24 News, The Marilyn Denis Show, Young Justice with Zach Rhoads, Here and Now CBC, NewsTalk 1010, Wise Women Canada, CJAD, Experience 50 and the National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse.

Watch her TEDx Talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O16O8...

A child who belonged to no one, missing at the tender age of 13, she spent years living on the streets where she experienced the worst of humanity first-hand, In her darkest hours while living in an apartment co

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Nancy Kacirek Feldman

Nancy Kacirek Feldman was raised in Nebraska, Kansas, Illinois, and California. Now she lives in Oregon under magnificent trees with her husband and several pets. Always indebted to her adoring parents for the wonderful family life they provided; she hopes her story will be helpful to others.

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Drea Delgado

Born in Chicago, Illinois Drea Delgado is the newest author on the urban fiction scene. Drea has been writing since she was thirteen years old. At the urging of a friend, she began to write her first untitled novel over the course of a few years. Having shown it to a few friends, they urged her to write, but she never took it seriously.

She won many awards throughout high school for writing. It was in high school where she discovered her love of reading starting with the legendary Donald Goines novels. Drea began to get serious about writing during a very low point in her life. She would sit for hours on end and just write until she couldn't write anymore.

Drea is the author of the Groupie Chronicles series, Professional Freak, Memoirs of an

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Michelle Pearson

Michelle Pearson is a British Author, living in South East England. A scientist by education but with an eclectic career history from milking cows and working as a lifeguard through to the city, global IT and running her own business. Along the way she found time to qualify and teach Pilates and Tai Chi. TAKEN is Michelle’s first book covering a very personal journey through life. When away from writing she enjoys being outside with nature walking with her husband and their two dogs, as well as her other passion, photography.

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Jacky Trevane

Jacky Trevane is the pseudonym of Jennifer Anne, a British woman who ran away from her Egyptian husband in 1992.With the help of ghostwriter Clifford Thurlow she published the book Fatwa: Living with a Death Threat, describing her version of her life with her Egyptian Muslim husband Maged (in her book called Omar). Jacky was twenty-three when she arrived in Egypt for a holiday with her boyfriend, Dave. Separated from Dave in a bustling street, she fell and twisted her ankle, only to be swept up by a young handsome, chivalrous Egyptian. It was, she says in her book, love at first sight. She married him, converted to Islam and lived with him in a poor suburb of Cairo. The couple bore two daughters. Their marriage, however, turned sour and Jen

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Jenny Tomlin

QUEEN of the misery memoir Jenny Tomlin, mother of actress Martine McCutcheon, is not as tragic as you might imagine.

Upbeat and truly happy in her life now, it's difficult to believe that she was sexually abused by her father, unprotected by her slovenly mother and then married a violent man who battered her senseless even when she was pregnant with Martine.

Her disturbing story was told in her memoirs Behind Closed Doors and Silent Sisters, which became bestsellers, enabling her to buy a 12-acre French farmhouse in the Dordogne with her second husband, Alan Tomlin, a bodyguard she married in Barbados nine years ago.

Then, of course, there's her famous daughter.

You can hear Martine laughing in the background as her mother describes their

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L.L. Bartlett

The immensely popular Booktown Mystery series is what put Lorraine Bartlett’s pen name Lorna Barrett on the New York Times Bestseller list, but it’s her talent -- whether writing as Lorna, or L.L. Bartlett, or Lorraine Bartlett -- that keeps her there. This multi-published, Agatha-nominated author pens the exciting Jeff Resnick Mysteries as well as the acclaimed Victoria Square and Lotus Bay Mystery series, and now the Tales of Telenia fantasy saga, and has many short stories and novellas to her name(s). Check out the descriptions and links to all her works here: http://www.LLBartlett.com

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كريمة أحداد, Karima Ahdad

روائية وصحافية مغربية مقيمة بإسطنبول. وُلدت بمدينة الحسيمة شمال المغرب عام 1993. عمِلت في مجال الصحافة المكتوبة والرقمية داخل وخارج المغرب منذ عام 2014.
حاصلة على الإجازة في الإعلام والاتصال من المعهد العالي للإعلام والاتصال بالرباط عام 2014، وعلى ماستر في الاتصال السياسي من نفس المعهد عام 2017.
الإصدارات:
ـ نزيف آخر الحلم: مجموعة قصصية حاصلة على جائزة اتحاد كتاب المغرب للأدباء الشباب عام 2015.
ـ بنات الصبّار: رواية صادرة عن دار الفنك للنشر عام 2018، وحاصلة على جائزة محمد زفزاف للرواية عام 2019. وهي الآن قيد الترجمة إلى اللغة الإنجليزية
ـ حلمٌ تركي: رواية صادرة عن المركز الثقافي العربي عام 2021.
ـ المرأة الأخرى: صادرة عن منشورات المتوسط 2024

Karima Ahdad is a journalist and author from the city of El Hoceima, Morocco, who worked as a journalist

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David Leroy Harter Finch

I am a survivor of severe abuse... as a child, psychological abuse, sexual abuse and starvation. I have written a book that was 40 years in the making. In the last 3 years I have re dedicated myself to writing the narrative of my youth, my battle with C-PTSD and depression and my road to recovery. The message of my book is simple, no matter how bad the abuse was there is life after it ends. We can learn to live again. We can learn to trust again. Most importantly we can learn to love again.

There is always hope...

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Justin Reed Early

Justin Reed Early spent much of his childhood in Group Homes, Foster Care and on the streets as a 'Homeless Youth'.

Born in Bellingham, WA and ‘raised’ in Seattle, Justin was a young adult when he was presented an opportunity to change – and was given some tools required to succeed. He continues to advocate solutions for homeless and disadvantaged youth (and adults) and donates his book to various disadvantaged youth and the Programs that serve them.

Justin currently resides in New York City and Los Angeles.

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Laurie Ann Butcher

Laurie Ann Butcher lives in Yorkshire, England with her husband, and is the author of ‘The Guardians Series’ featuring ‘Darkness’, ‘The Lingering Shadows’ and ‘The Mists of Avalon’. Available individually, the books are also available as a trilogy… ‘The Guardians Trilogy’. The series blends together mythology, history, magic, fated-mates, immortality and romance with a sprinkling of paranormal and supernatural, and a dash of alternate realities.

The youngest of six, she grew up in a dysfunctional family surrounded by hatred, anger and envy, and watched her mother and older sister buckle under the weight of mental illness. She suffered from trauma on numerous occasions throughout her life which resulted in repetitive nightmares. Physically an

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Richard Sanders

If I have to describe myself, I’d say I’m a bumbling, half-assed, streetwise mystic looking for meaning in this crazy world. I can also say I worked for 25 years as an Executive Editor at Entertainment Weekly and People magazine. Other highlights on my CV: As a recovering addict and alcoholic, I’ve spent time in jail, rehab and a psych ward, and I’ve managed to stay sane and alive since then. I’ve tried to capture the struggle for spiritual survival, every day, every hour, every moment, in my books.

You can follow me on Facebook
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