PRAISE for UNSPOKEN
"Grabs your heart and doesn’t let go. Ruby Lee Becker’s silence is louder than any storm. The Texas Panhandle is tough country but Ruby meets it head-on. There’s grit and grace here."
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EDITORS' CHOICE
Historical Novels Review, HNS
PRAISE for VACANCY
"A grieving mother, a scarred veteran, and a runaway teen cling to the only remaining people they can call family as a dusty Texas town lays blame on them for a tragedy no one saw coming.”
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CAM TORRENS, bestselling author
of the Tyler Zahn series
Set against the unforgiving backdrop of the Texas Panhandle, Jann Alexander’s Vacancy is a
hauntingly beautiful exploration of what remains when life’s promises are broken.
—JOAN FERNANDEZ
author, Saving Vincent: A Novel of Jo van Gogh
Vacancy, hits readers like a Texas twister! Small-town atmospherics and deep emotions highlight a story about difficult families, secrets and second chances, and the desperate measures good people will take to protect those they love.
—CAM TORRENS
award-winning author of the Tyler Zahn suspense series
Alexander delivers a poignant tale of people dealing with grief, guilt, secrets, and transformations, as well as unexpected relationships ... Vacancy is
a heartbreaking, engaging melodrama with memorable characters and a hopeful conclusion.
—KIRKUS BOOK REVIEWS
Our Verdict: Get It
Unspoken reminds me, in tone, of Texas classics like The Time it Never Rained and Giant. I loved Unspoken. Alexander is a great new talent in the genre of Texana.
—W. F. STRONG
author, Stories From Texas, and radio commentator for NPR Texas
In Unspoken, drought and violent dust storms sweeping across the Texas panhandle bring tragedy and challenges to a young girl. Sad and disturbing, yet buoyed by hope and formidable female characters.
—KIRKUS BOOK REVIEWS
Our Verdict: Get It
Jann Alexander's blazingly alive novel Unspoken asks how do we keep a family intact? Here, in a story told by both a mother and her daughter, two people struggle to both understand their world and each other.
—CAROLINE LEAVITT, NY Times best-selling author, Days of Wonder
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MY HISTORY PRESENTATIONS FEATURE:
THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF
THE TEXAS DUST BOWL
Jann Alexander, author of the best-selling Unspoken: A Dust Novel, brings to light little-known stories of Texans who endured the state’s harshest era. In a one-hour talk with striking imagery, film footage, maps, music, and firsthand accounts, she illustrates how the Dust Bowl transformed Texas’s landscape, economy, and identity, and informed her historical novel, Unspoken.
WOMEN OF THE NEW DEAL
Author Jann Alexander shares the little-known
stories of three women who were pivotal to the success of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl eras: Frances Perkins (The Only Woman In The Room), Dorothea Lange (The Woman Behind The Camera), and Eleanor Roosevelt (The President’s Eyes And Ears), based on years of research that informed her best-selling historical novel, Unspoken.
PRAISE FOR THE HIDDEN HISTORY PRESENTATION
"I received so many glowing comments about both your command of history and your presentation style." —Dubravka Romano, Curriculum Committee Chair, OLLI Discover Program
About Jann Alexander
I'm an author, artist, and speaker.
My characters face down their fears, in novels that are as close-to-true as fiction can get.
I specialize in time travel, past and nearly present.
Read Unspoken, my best-selling novel and the first in The Dust Series that stars historic Texas during the Dirty Thirties and Great Depression.
Move on to my next book in The Dust Series, Vacancy, my fictionalized true crime novel that doubles as second-chance romance in small-town Texas.
Explore my photography of Vanishing Austin, Mother Earth, and Texana.
Journey into the American southwest and Mexico with me along the Mission Trail, as I capture the colors in my paintings and photos.
Book me to present hidden histories, from Texas to beyond, at your next event or book club.
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