Our sponsored author · T.J. Colman
In her words, at last.
A memoir series built from the notes she kept through it all.
About the author
The survivor who wrote it down.
T.J. Colman is a survivor of a ten year marriage built on coercive control. Her memoir series has been written from her journal entries, emails, texts and court filings compiled over the last twenty plus years. The names were changed to protect the people in them. She now writes to inspire other women to tell their stories.
H.D. Publishing is sponsoring her debut series, A Light in the Dark, from the first draft to the printed book. It is the kind of story we exist to publish: a voice kept quiet for years, telling it straight.
Memoir and essays
The books
More books in the series are on the way. Buying links appear here as each one is released.
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A Light in the Dark
A Memoir of Motherhood, Divorce, and Starting Over
In 2007 a young mother wrote down the night she put a softball bat back in the closet and took her son to her parents’ house. Then she stayed eight more years. This is that story, told from the beginning.
Content note: domestic abuse, coercive control and suicidal threats.
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Eternity in His Eyes
Learning to Love the Reflection in the Mirror
A book about being seen for who you really are, and what that sentence cost: three sons learning a new name, a new license, a father who will not hug him.
Content note: family rejection and separation from children.
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Shattering the Silence
Written out of his own life. He wrote himself back in.
The long drive back north, and the sons coming home one by one. The story of a writer finding a voice after years of silence, and using it.
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Letters to my sons
What I Would Tell You Over Coffee
Letters from a parent to three sons about the things worth knowing: life lessons, school and work, relationships, and what time, money and attention are really worth.
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A Book of One’s Own
Six answers to Virginia Woolf, a century later
Woolf’s six chapters of A Room of One’s Own, printed whole, each followed by an answer written a century later from the author’s own journals and letters.
If you need help now
You don’t have to wait for a book.
National Domestic Violence Hotline: call 1-800-799-7233 or text START to 88788 (thehotline.org). Trans Lifeline: 877-565-8860. Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: call or text 988.
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