From Notebooks to Novel - Journalist Turns Themes from Reporting into Gripping Fiction.

As a newspaper reporter and columnist, Stacy Hawkins Adams has written extensively about faith, family relationships, and social issues such as domestic violence. She has used that knowledge to craft a compelling inspirational novel called Speak To My Heart. What would you do if you found out you've been living a lie? Serena Jasper must decide in Speak To My Heart.

Richmond, VA (PRWEB) September 6, 2004 -- Richmond Times-Dispatch reporter and columnist Stacy Hawkins Adams has spent more than a decade writing about social issues, the bonds between families and friends and journeys of faith.

In her first work of fiction, an inspirational novel called Speak To My Heart, Adams movingly explores some of these same issues.

Readers will meet Serena Jasper, a successful advertising executive who loses her focus when she learns a family secret. Some would take this kind of revelation in stride, but Serena questions God and her ties to those who claim to be most faithful.

As she throws herself into her flourishing career, she struggles to help a long-time friend in a dangerous relationship, and a young girl at a crossroads of promise and crisis.

A new male friend gives Serena reason to smile and helps her understand that while life doesnt always unfold as planned, through its twists and turns, one can learn the value of self-acceptance, forgiveness and unconditional love.

This engrossing tale will leave readers pondering the course of their own lives.

Release Date: October 1, 2004
Publisher: Revell Books
ISBN: 0-8007-5970-2

Adams writes about social issues for the Richmond Times-Dispatch and pens a widely-read weekly column called Inspirations, which focuses on spirituality in daily life.

She has covered courts, written series of stories on domestic violence, childrens health insurance and welfare reform. She participated in a six-month child and family policy journalism fellowship through the University of Maryland, and has written numerous stories about missing children and their caretakers.

Adams also writes a web log for http://www.Crosswalk.com and serves as a motivational speaker.

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