by Melissa Duge Spiers | Lake Drive Books News, Trauma Recovery
It is my father’s birthday and there are dark puddles of blood all over my parent’s bed, messy splotches seeping into the petal-pink sheets that my mother pulls and burns and heats flat and smooth before forcing them onto the mattress. They are stretched tight and...
by Melissa Duge Spiers | Lake Drive Books News
Update: This Kickstarter campaign was a success! Sign up to be notified of preorder availability for Holy Disobedience here! I’m Melissa Duge Spiers, and I’m writing to ask for your help bringing my memoir, Holy Disobedience, into the world. Holy Disobedience is my...
by David Morris | Faith Deconstruction, Lake Drive Books News, Mental Health
Spiritual abuse often doesn’t arrive as a lightning strike. More often, it seeps in quietly—through a thousand tiny wounds that don’t look like much to outsiders but leave lasting, sometimes lifelong scars. In A Thousand Tiny Paper Cuts, Katherine Spearing names this...
by Lake Drive Reporter | Current Events, Identity, Lake Drive Books News, LGBTQ
In late 2023, Hulu released a powerful documentary, We Live Here: The Midwest, spotlighting LGBTQ+ families navigating life in America’s heartland. Among the featured voices were Lake Drive author Nia Chiaramonte and her wife Katie, whose striking story of...
by David Morris | Lake Drive Books News, Mental Health
At different times in our lives, we all face the experience of grief—it’s part of the human condition. That statement is easy enough to understand, but doesn’t it also ring more true than it should in our culture, one that often glosses over troubling emotions? In her...
by David Morris | Lake Drive Books News, LGBTQ
At Lake Drive Books, we believe in telling the stories you might not otherwise hear—the ones that don’t always get space in church pulpits, mainstream media, or polite dinner conversations. Stories from the margins. Stories that make you pause, reflect, and ultimately...
