Lynda Kaye Frazier, USA Today Best Selling Author

      Child Abuse needs a voice, and should never be hushed. It's an epidemic, and happening all around us, but we don't see it. Abuse is not always physical. It can be emotional and verbal. They all leave the same scars, I know. I hide my own. In my Young Adult, If I Knew Then , Angel suffers in silence. She struggles to do the right thing, even if it means she will have to hide the evidence to save her family from the shame of her mothers secrets. Many children around us suffer in silence. We need to take off our blinders and give them a voice. A secure set of arms to run to for safety.  My book will be published this year and I am hoping to give at least one child the strength to speak up. Search for the love they will need to overcome.           All children want is to be loved. unconditionally Here's as excerpt from... If I Knew Then . Blurb Angel dreamed of a life of freed...

It's that time again and this year I'm going to be very busy. I plan on completing three projects: 1. Finishing my edits on the stories I pitched last month at  the conference so I can submit them.  Last Chance to Run: What if you found out the daughter you buried was alive and being held captive by a man you thought you killed? Ron Daily gave everything he had to the FBI. It was his life since his daughter’s death. Then his world crashed in around him when he’s told the terrorist he thought he destroyed staged her death. As obstacles mount against his daughter, he forms an alliance with another agent, a stubborn redhead with links to a secret from his past. Can he fight feelings for a woman that will never love him once she finds out the truth?  2. Complete the edits on my YA, If I Knew Then and send them back to my publisher Angel dreamed of a life of freedom. One filled with love that didn’t come with a price.  Sh e hid the pain until Jax ent...

          This month is my Third Anniversary as a Writer. And I love writing more today, then I did then.  I struggled in the beginning, and made many mistakes. I had a story I wanted to tell, but no idea how to do it. So I sat down and wrote it out. Once I was finished I felt accomplished.   I wrote a story!  I thought that's how you did it. Was I ever surprised to find out that was just the beginning, and the easy part. I needed direction. I thought you wrote a book, celebrated your accomplishment, then sent it to a publisher for a contract.  Well, a few things from my past came back to haunt me.  Like ninth grade English.  Yes, Comma's hated me,  They still do, and so did Grammar. I realized that I had 298 pages of horrible grammar mistakes which made my story difficult to read. After many review courses, and reading a lot of refresher books, my story fell into a publisher hands...

                Let me start by saying I love Stephen King. He's a talented, gifted writer, and an amazing person. But I have yet to read one of his books to the end.                        They scare the daylights out of me. It's not that I haven't tried. I have. I even own eight of them. His writing is just so descriptive, and realistic, that I end up with nightmares. Who wants to have clowns invade your dreams, or have a car chase you into a nightmare from hell. As a writer I strive to be just like him. His readers are loyal and they count the days until his next one is released. I know, I live with one.  I want to have a shelf like this one filled with my books some day. Stephen King knows his craft. His books are well written and show the long hours he puts into them with the physical and emotional details in each one.         ...

                                          A Child should be seen, not heard. Who truly believes that? I don't. Children have a voice, we should encourage them to use it. Not hide behind their silence. Abuse comes in many forms . The most visible, physical . The next one we are familiar with is verbal but the one we cannot forget is emotional .  I am very familiar with the last two. I spent many years hiding behind a mask, never feeling like I was worthy, then being reminded of all my faults, and why I would never go anywhere in life by someone who wore a bigger mask then I did.  We look at our society and wonder what happened. Why is little Mary always crying and why is little Johnny so angry all the time.  If you fill a child's life with anger and disappointment then that's all they will know. You can't raise a child on nothing but negativity. I...

When I think of the ABC's, I think about children. The many hours spent playing games and singing songs so they could learn these amazing letters. It was so much fun, but for some it's  source of pain.                                           April is national Child Abuse Month. That is why I combined the remaining letters so my post can stay up for a week. Child Abuse comes in many forms. Physical, verbal, emotional, neglect of basic needs including love. Can you imagine living without the security of knowing someone is there to love and protect you?  Feeling that you need to try and be perfect? Afraid to make mistakes? Abuse does not always leave physical scars. I know, that's why I became a child advocate, and a foster parent. I wanted to make sure children knew that learning their ABC's can be fun, without the fear of making mistakes.  If you ...