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Author Angel Smith-DeWitt Publishes Memoir on Surviving Childhood Domestic Violence
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Angel Smith-DeWitt has published "Victimized as a Child – Saved by the Grace of God," a memoir drawn from her childhood in a household marked by poverty, alcoholism and violence during the 1960s, according to the announcement. The book is available through Page Publishing in bookstores and through major online retailers including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Play and the Apple iTunes Store.
According to the book’s own description, Smith-DeWitt set out to write something readers could use to recognize domestic violence in their own lives, not just read as a personal account. In her words, included in the book’s description, domestic violence applies to anyone living together, related by blood, or in a relationship, and "abuse has no gender or color." She writes that men are abused too but report it less often, in part because of assumptions about male strength.
The announcement describes Smith-DeWitt’s own path out of an abusive home, including time spent facing danger on the streets after she left. The book pairs that account with what the author calls practical steps: starting a journal to document abuse, packing a bag in advance, and avoiding an abuser where possible as part of planning an exit. She also writes about a pattern she identifies in child abuse cases, where an abuser isolates a mother or other female caregiver as a way of controlling the children.
"I wrote this book because recognition saves lives," Smith-DeWitt said in the announcement. "If sharing my story helps even one person understand they’re not alone, or gives them the courage to leave, then my pain has purpose. Faith carried me through the unimaginable, and I want others to know it can carry them too."
The book sits alongside a body of survivor literature and advocacy work that has long argued recognition and early intervention are what actually move people out of dangerous homes, a claim domestic violence organizations have made for decades. Smith-DeWitt’s work adds a specifically faith-centered account to that shelf, framing spiritual belief as inseparable from her own recovery.
Studio CarryOnHarry sees books like this doing real service when they move past memoir into something a reader in crisis can actually use — the journaling, the safety planning, the plain naming of what counts as abuse.
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Jerry D. Jackson, a retired Coast Guard officer, has published a memoir about his third marriage, a ten-month relationship he describes as beginning at his church and ending in what the announcement calls hidden emotional cruelty. The book, titled "THE OTHER SIDE OF SOMEBODY: The Mask She Wears for Them, the Hell She Keeps for Me," is out now through Page Publishing.
Jackson entered the marriage following the cancer-related death of his first wife of over four decades and the end of a long-distance relationship marked by fundamental parenting disagreements, according to the announcement. He has said he entered his third marriage believing he’d found a genuine connection, only to find, in his account, a difference between how his then-wife presented herself publicly and how she behaved at home.
Jackson’s background informs the book’s voice. He served more than twenty-three years in the Coast Guard, including duty in Vietnam as a medevac corpsman involved in what the announcement describes as numerous rescues, and he has recounted an encounter with Admiral Hyman Rickover during his service. He retired from the Coast Guard in 1987 and worked in the civilian sector before writing this book.
"I felt compelled to write this account because my family and friends found the situation almost unbelievable," Jackson said in the announcement. "By documenting what transpired over those ten months, I hope readers will recognize similar patterns in their own lives and find the courage to prioritize their wellbeing."
The publisher describes the book as both a cautionary account and a source of validation for readers who have questioned their own perceptions in a difficult relationship, built around themes of manipulation, early warning signs, and recovery after betrayal. "THE OTHER SIDE OF SOMEBODY" is available through major retailers including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, and the Apple iTunes Store, as well as through Page Publishing’s website.
Memoirs built around a single relationship live or die on specificity, and a retired medevac corpsman’s instinct for precise detail is an interesting lens to bring to a story like this one. Studio CarryOnHarry will be curious whether Jackson’s military candor carries through to how the book actually handles its central relationship.
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Hospital Chaplain John Goodjohn Publishes ‘The Gospel of Scripture,’ a Self-Study Approach to Biblical Text
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John Goodjohn, a hospital chaplain with a background in pastoral ministry and seminary instruction, has published "The Gospel of Scripture," a book that sets out to present the Gospel of Jesus Christ using the Bible’s own text as the primary interpretive tool, according to the announcement. The book is subtitled "The Gospel of Jesus Christ as Defined and Explained in the Bible, by the Bible Itself," and is published through Page Publishing.
The book’s premise, as described in the announcement, is that readers can study Scripture directly, without relying on denominational commentary or secondary interpretive frameworks, to understand what it says on its own terms. Goodjohn frames this as an alternative to conventional devotional literature and study guides.
Goodjohn’s path to the project is unusual for religious publishing. According to the announcement, his vocations span university administration, organic farming, competitive figure skating, long-distance sailing, roller-disco management in the Hamptons, and business ownership, in addition to his pastoral and academic work. He has described himself as having once been an outsider to organized Christianity before dedicating himself to study of the Bible’s teachings apart from what he characterizes as the "thousands of differing, often contradictory interpretations" found across modern religious practice.
"My journey from skepticism about organized Christianity to a life grounded solely in biblical teaching has convinced me that readers hunger for authenticity," Goodjohn said in the announcement. "This book exists to help people encounter the Gospel through Scripture’s own voice, free from the complications of external influence."
The idea of returning to Scripture’s own language as a corrective to accumulated tradition and interpretation has precedent in Christian publishing — Brennan Manning’s "The Ragamuffin Gospel," first published in 1990, built a similar case around God’s love and grace stripped of religious performance, and remains widely read decades later. Goodjohn’s book positions itself in that same lineage of works arguing that direct engagement with the text, rather than inherited interpretation, is where readers will find clarity.
"The Gospel of Scripture" is available through Page Publishing’s website, as well as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, and the Apple iTunes Store.
Studio CarryOnHarry will leave it to readers to judge whether a text can ever be studied entirely free of interpretation, but the author’s own winding path to this project is a story in itself.
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