Coming Soon!

This is happening. It still feels surreal that I am going to be a published author. I've had to say "I am a published author" about a thousand times for my Reticular Activating System (RAS) to believe it as the truth. More on the RAS in my second book! :-) 

My publisher is FriesenPress and the book will be ready soon for purchase through them before it makes its way to all the other purchasing locations it is destined for:

FriesenPress   https://books.friesenpress.com/store/title/119734000315303097
Barnes & Noble 
Chapters/Indigo
Amazon.ca
Amazon.com
Kobo
Kindle
Apple Books
Nook Book
Google Play

A reminder of the review that the book received from Kirkus Reviews: (the excerpt in red will be included on the back cover of the book):

Longstreet’s book of rhymes and meditations on faith also chronicles a painful childhood filled with abuse.
In this religious memoir, the author chronicles her journey overcoming loss, pain, and abuse while moving toward devout Christianity. When Longstreet was a child, her father abandoned the family, and her mother died in a plane crash. She and her brother were raised in foster care, where they worked on their uncaring guardians’ property and were regularly beaten. In this period, she relished the hour a week spent at the local church, where she could finally find some peace and a way to feel unconditional love. “I cannot tell you what God looks like, but His presence was a warmth you cannot see with your eyes,” she writes of the intense spiritual feelings she experienced. Her chaotic upbringing left her without a high school diploma, but she succeeded in passing the equivalency test and completing a secretarial course. Briefly married, she had a son and granted him what she never had: a stable childhood. Now a devoutly religious person, the author writes in both verse and prose about religion and how it helped her (and can help the reader) to overcome adversity and lead a fulfilling life. Longstreet’s story about her early years is certainly harrowing, and she vividly conveys the idea that she “suffered abuses that a child should not know.” It is compelling to read how she persevered through such difficult circumstances and how she ensured her son would never know the same. The epiphany she experienced as a child is an illuminating and potent center to the narrative. The structure of the book, alternating rhymes and prose, is appealing, and the religious message is convincing and heartfelt; however, though each line is thoughtful, the text can get too repetitive.
A true tale of adversity and a fervent (if redundant) call for readers to embrace religion.

Life is good. <3