I'm a lifelong writer who pens novels with characters like me and people I know - trying to live fully and faithfully, and trusting God to lead the way. Though we often fall short, grace is ever present. You'll likely recognize yourself, your relatives or your friends in my characters, and by book's end, I hope you will have laughed, cried and found yourself reflecting on how the twists and turns in their fictional world relate to your own.
Professional Bio
Stacy Hawkins Adams is an award-winning author, speaker and freelance
writer.
Her six nationally-published women’s fiction novels weave faith, social issues
and personal growth themes into creative plots. Her nonfiction book gives
women practical tips, scriptural guidance and inspiration on how to connect
more deeply with God.
Stacy’s fourth novel, The Someday List, maintained a steady presence on the Essence bestseller’s list throughout 2009, and soared to #7 on the Kindle bestseller list earlier this year. The Someday List was nominated for a Library of Virginia fiction award.
Her latest novel, Dreams That Won’t Let Go, hit bookstore shelves in January 2010 and continues to receive critical acclaim. Who Speaks to Your Heart? is Stacy’s first nonfiction book. It was released in May 2010 and serves as a devotional guide for busy women from all walks of life.
Before becoming a full-time author and freelance writer, Stacy served as a newspaper reporter and columnist for fourteen years, primarily at the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia. She currently writes a freelance parenting column for the Times-Dispatch and a faith-based column for an online teen girls’ magazine, www.SusieMag.com. Other freelance clients have included Gospel Today and Heart & Soul magazines, AARP’s Bulletin and
Crosswalk.com.
Stacy is a member of the Advanced Writers and Speakers Association (AWSA), and served as the founding president of the Richmond Chapter of the American Christian Fiction Writers.
She recently launched a group coaching service called Author In You (www.AuthorInYou.com), through which she and a select group of professional authors provide personalized motivation and advice to fiction and nonfiction writers seeking to complete a manuscript. She occasionally provides personal "purpose coaching" that empowers women to recognize their relevance and purpose, and succeed at a personal or professional goal.
When she is not writing, speaking or coaching, Stacy devotes considerable time to promoting child advocacy as a writing and marketing consultant, and community volunteer. Stacy lives in a suburb of Richmond, Va. with her husband and two children.
