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- Hometown:
- I'm orginally from Concord, NH but have lived in Tennessee for the past thirty years.
- About Me and My Book:
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I moved to Tn when my oldest son was wrongly convicted and sent to death row. I started writing at this time and wrote our story and then went on to write other books. My life story was the third one published after Death Row, and Victims. Then I wrote From Vietnam To Hell, Congregation of the Condemned, Young Blood, Road Angels, Long Journey Home, The Choice Is Yours and A Mothers Torment.
I wrote articles that were published in magazines and was on Geraldo, Maury, Sally, Jerry Springer, Rolonda and The Shirley SHow in Canada. The BBC then did a documentary on my life that was play ed overseas.
My youngest son and I spoke out on the Journey of Hope each year in a different state. That's two weeks of speaking out against the death penalty and more violence, creating more victims. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking also speaks out on the Journey as does Sam Shepperd who is the son of Dr Sam Shepherd convicted of killing his mother and sentenced to die. Sam has spent his whole life trying to prove his innocence. The movie, THe Fugitive is based on his story.
I also went on TN death row and five of the guys came out to do a DVD called The Choice Is Yours where they talk to the kids about the dangers of doing drugs, alcohol and hanging in gangs, and wiht the wrong kind of people. The video I take to schools and speak to the kids to try and stop them before they end up in prison, or death row. www.thechoiceisyours.org
When my oldest son was killed in 99, I started the Jeff Dicks Coalition, www.jeffdicks.org to save prisoners from medical neglect, and to stop the murdering of these prisoners by being denied their medication.
Last year I lost my youngest and only son left, and since then I haven't been able to speak out. I will be sending out my book to see about getting it made into a movie. I never knew which company took out the option so will just have to send it out blind....
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- http://www.amotherstorment.com
A Mothers Torment
How far would you go to save your child’s life? Would you write hot checks, sell your home, attempt a-jail break - be on the run for a year with two young children? This mother did.
Fighting the system while running from the law, living on the lam with her eleven year old son, and baby granddaughter, A MOTHER’S TORMENT is a testimony to family love; a system’s indifference; a mother’s desperation; and finally, an unjust death. www.amotherstorment.com
Road Angels
Women who ride motorcycles www.roadangels.org
The Choice Is Yours
Aimed at teens on anti violence, drugs, alcohol and getting into trouble. Prisoners talk to the kids about how and why they found themselves in prison and death row by the choices they made.
www.thechoiceisyours.org
A Long Journey Home
Stories by victims of murder who oppose more violence in the death penalty. Sam Reese Sheppard spent all his life trying to prove his father’s innocence, after he was convicted of killing his mother. Dr. Sam Sheppard was the case that The Fugitive movie was based on. www.shirleydicks.net/journey.htm
Congregation of the Condemned
A collection of interviews with experts on the death penalty.
Death Row
Tennessee death row inmates, victims of crime and experts on the death penalty
Young Blood - Juvenile Crime in the US
Victims of Crime and Punishment
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Virtual Book Signing
I was wondering how many authors had taken one of these tours and how it worked out for them. Are the book sales good, and how does one go about setting one up. I take it that these tours are done on a blog on someone's website. Or that's the impression I got from reading… Continue
Posted on March 18, 2007 at 11:00am — 7 Comments
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The Choice Is Yours
I also went up on Tennessee's death row and did a video and DVD with five of the guys who came out to talk to the kids about how they found themselves up on the row.
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