by David Morris | Lake Drive Books Events, Trauma Recovery
A conversation with survivor-advocates and authors Melissa Duge Spiers and Katherine Spearing Dear Friend of Lake Drive Books, What a delight it was to sit down with authors Melissa Duge Spiers and Katherine Spearing, along with a hearty group of supporters and...
by David Morris | Lake Drive Books News, Trauma Recovery
I’m pleased to announce that Holy Disobedience: Sex, Sin, and Secrets in the Biggest Church No One Knows by Melissa Duge Spiers is now on sale. It’s a book that refuses to sit quietly on the shelf. Compelling and insightful, this is an important addition to the...
by David Morris | Lake Drive Books News, Trauma Recovery
Friends, I’m delighted to announce that Lake Drive Books editor Stephanie Eagleson has signed survivor, advocate, and abuse recovery coach Emily Elizabeth Anderson for her debut memoir, to be published in 2027. Emily’s story will astonish, confound, and ultimately...
by Christa Brown | Trauma Recovery
My first life ended with an assault on a dark dirt road near the old Addison airport north of Dallas. There were many more assaults that followed, but that’s where my mind returns most often. For fifty years, I have pictured myself on that dark road, pinned between...
by Katherine Spearing | Faith Deconstruction, Trauma Recovery
In the South where I grew up, most people have a reverence for God and the church, even if they don’t actively participate in Christian traditions. While some everyday Christians may have thought my family was strange when the daughters weren’t allowed to go to...
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...
