Author Meet & Greet w/ Heidi Craig and Jenny Yates
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We invite you to come by Midtown Reader to meet two amazing local authors, Heidi Craid and Jenny Yates, and hear about their fantastic books!
ABOUT HEIDI CRAIG
Heidi Craig is the author of Finding My Voice: Thriving Beyond Pedophilia, a deeply personal memoir about childhood trauma, resilience, healing, and the courage to reclaim one's voice. Through her writing, Heidi hopes to inspire others to find strength in their own stories and discover that healing and transformation are possible, even after profound adversity.
Heidi is also the founder of Susurrus — A Whisper of Hope, an initiative dedicated to preserving and sharing authentic near-death experience stories to inspire hope, foster human connection, and offer comfort to people navigating serious illness, end-of-life transitions, grief, and caregiving.
In addition to her memoir and her work developing Susurrus, Heidi is creating Little Light Stories, a children's book series designed to share meaningful stories and gentle life lessons with young readers.
Based in Tallahassee, Florida, Heidi is passionate about storytelling, personal growth, and creating opportunities for people of all ages to find hope, connection, and a sense of belonging.
ABOUT FINDING MY VOICE: THRIVING BEYOND PEDOPHILIA
What happens when the people who are supposed to protect you are the ones who cause you harm?
In Finding My Voice: Thriving Beyond Pedophilia, Heidi Craig shares a deeply personal journey through childhood trauma, complicated family relationships, painful truths, and the long road toward healing. With courage and vulnerability, she explores the lasting impact of abuse, the struggle to reclaim a voice that was silenced, and the strength it takes to confront the past while learning to embrace the future.
This is more than a story of survival. It is a story of resilience, self-discovery, forgiveness, and transformation—a reminder that our beginnings do not have to define our endings.
For anyone who has ever felt silenced, unseen, or shaped by circumstances beyond their control, Finding My Voice offers a powerful message: your story matters, your voice deserves to be heard, and healing is possible.
ABOUT JENNY YATES
Jenny Yates (she/her/hers) was born in North Carolina, but she didn’t stay there long. She’s lived in many places – Thailand, Vietnam, Germany, Ecuador, Venezuela, San Francisco, and the DC area. Now she and her wife hang out in Tallahassee, Florida.
From the time she was small, she’s always written stories and poems. Two of her books have found their way into print: Your Horoscope: A Guide to Interpretation and Quito Murder Mystery. For 35 years, her day job was being a freelance astrologer. This meant traveling up and down the East Coast of the US, doing workshops at women’s music festivals, and meeting lots of lesbians. When she wasn’t on the road, she wrote about aspects and transits, guiding people through the crossroads in their lives.
She’s a Scorpio with Libra rising, a bookworm, a movie buff, a romantic, a pagan, and a member of a Unitarian Universalist congregation.
ABOUT BIRDLESS
Jenny Yates has the rare ability to write a novel about humankind's certain extinction in a way that tempers despair. Using compelling, cinematic scenes and the deftly written embedding of daily life, past and present, Birdless tells the story of how passionate love between two young women becomes the tether that holds onto hope and creates a new world. And I must say my favorite characters, the ones that offer me my own hope, are the cohort of old people living together with joy and ritual through the final disintegration of the Earth. –Sandra Gail Lambert, author of the Lambda Literary Award winning My Withered Legs and Other Essays.
ABOUT HEIDI CRAIG
Heidi Craig is the author of Finding My Voice: Thriving Beyond Pedophilia, a deeply personal memoir about childhood trauma, resilience, healing, and the courage to reclaim one's voice. Through her writing, Heidi hopes to inspire others to find strength in their own stories and discover that healing and transformation are possible, even after profound adversity.
Heidi is also the founder of Susurrus — A Whisper of Hope, an initiative dedicated to preserving and sharing authentic near-death experience stories to inspire hope, foster human connection, and offer comfort to people navigating serious illness, end-of-life transitions, grief, and caregiving.
In addition to her memoir and her work developing Susurrus, Heidi is creating Little Light Stories, a children's book series designed to share meaningful stories and gentle life lessons with young readers.
Based in Tallahassee, Florida, Heidi is passionate about storytelling, personal growth, and creating opportunities for people of all ages to find hope, connection, and a sense of belonging.
ABOUT FINDING MY VOICE: THRIVING BEYOND PEDOPHILIA
What happens when the people who are supposed to protect you are the ones who cause you harm?
In Finding My Voice: Thriving Beyond Pedophilia, Heidi Craig shares a deeply personal journey through childhood trauma, complicated family relationships, painful truths, and the long road toward healing. With courage and vulnerability, she explores the lasting impact of abuse, the struggle to reclaim a voice that was silenced, and the strength it takes to confront the past while learning to embrace the future.
This is more than a story of survival. It is a story of resilience, self-discovery, forgiveness, and transformation—a reminder that our beginnings do not have to define our endings.
For anyone who has ever felt silenced, unseen, or shaped by circumstances beyond their control, Finding My Voice offers a powerful message: your story matters, your voice deserves to be heard, and healing is possible.
ABOUT JENNY YATES
Jenny Yates (she/her/hers) was born in North Carolina, but she didn’t stay there long. She’s lived in many places – Thailand, Vietnam, Germany, Ecuador, Venezuela, San Francisco, and the DC area. Now she and her wife hang out in Tallahassee, Florida.
From the time she was small, she’s always written stories and poems. Two of her books have found their way into print: Your Horoscope: A Guide to Interpretation and Quito Murder Mystery. For 35 years, her day job was being a freelance astrologer. This meant traveling up and down the East Coast of the US, doing workshops at women’s music festivals, and meeting lots of lesbians. When she wasn’t on the road, she wrote about aspects and transits, guiding people through the crossroads in their lives.
She’s a Scorpio with Libra rising, a bookworm, a movie buff, a romantic, a pagan, and a member of a Unitarian Universalist congregation.
ABOUT BIRDLESS
Jenny Yates has the rare ability to write a novel about humankind's certain extinction in a way that tempers despair. Using compelling, cinematic scenes and the deftly written embedding of daily life, past and present, Birdless tells the story of how passionate love between two young women becomes the tether that holds onto hope and creates a new world. And I must say my favorite characters, the ones that offer me my own hope, are the cohort of old people living together with joy and ritual through the final disintegration of the Earth. –Sandra Gail Lambert, author of the Lambda Literary Award winning My Withered Legs and Other Essays.
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