Black Woman's Fire: A Poetic Voice to Resilience, Liberation, and Legacy is not merely a collection of poems-it is a witness.A witness to the sacred strength Black women have carried across generations.A witness to the quiet battles fought behind closed doors and the loud victories history often forgets to name.A witness to the fire that refuses to be extinguished.Through layered, soul-stirring verse, this collection journeys through identit...

Build a business that is clear enough to understand, bold enough to notice, and valuable enough to remember.Many businesses are not overlooked because they lack value. They are overlooked because that value is not always clear, visible, or consistently experienced.The R.A.W. Approach: The Framework to Elevate Your Business from Overlooked to Unforgettable gives entrepreneurs, small business owners, consultants, creatives, nonprofit leaders,...

Some journeys begin with a destination. Others begin simply with the need to leave.In The Long Way Home: Poetry of Love, Loss, and Return, John David Smith traces the quiet distances between restlessness and belonging, freedom and responsibility, departure and return.Across five poetic movements, these poems follow a wanderer who believes distance will loosen what binds him, only to discover that some things travel with us: love, memory, absence, r...

Unspoken: 12 Devotions for What We Carry in Silence is a gentle yet deeply honest devotional for anyone who has ever whispered, "Is it just me?" Written with pastoral care and spiritual depth, this book creates sacred space for the quiet burdens that often go unnamed-grief without funeral, fatigue without rest, loneliness in a crowded room, and questions too fragile to speak aloud.Each of the twelve devotions explores one unspoken burden through a Scriptur...

Shattered Praise: Devotions for When Worship Feels Hard is a deeply honest and hope-filled devotional for those who still believe-but find it harder to sing.Written with pastoral care and spiritual depth, this book creates sacred space for the moments when faith feels fragile, prayers feel quiet, and worship no longer sounds the way it once did.Through twelve guided devotions, readers are gently led through seasons of grief, silence, surrender, and rebuildi...

In 1863, General Ulysses S. Grant appointed one of his regimental chaplains, John Eaton of Ohio, as general superintendent of contrabands for the Department of the Tennessee. As the American Civil War raged, the former chaplain’s approach to humanitarian aid and education for the newly freed people marked one of the first attempts to consider how an entire population of formerly enslaved people would be assimilated into and become citizens of the postwar Union. General superintendent Eaton...

Eternal First Glance: Sonnets of Love's Beginning is a luminous collection of one hundred sonnets tracing the sacred journey of love-from its quiet awakening to its enduring, transformative depth.Beginning with a single glance, these poems explore the unseen moments where connection is born: the silence before words, the recognition before understanding, the feeling before definition. From that fragile beginning, the collection unfolds across love's full landscape-...

There are things we learn to live with.And then there are the things that quietly live within us.Whispers of Lavender is a literary novel that traces the inner lives of its characters with unflinching honesty and restraint. Moving between past and present, the story follows moments of fracture, memory, and awakening-revealing how what is left unresolved continues to shape identity, relationships, and the choices we make long after the moment has passed....

What does it mean to love, to grieve, to hope, and to endure in the vastness of time? In The Reverence of Time, these eternal questions are explored through the lens of poetry-a tapestry of reflections on mortality, love, and existence.With themes that range from the whispers of lost love to the celestial wonders of the universe, this collection invites readers to journey through moments both intimate and universal. Each poem is a meditation on life's frag...

Black Man's Tears is a powerful and lyrical collection of poetry exploring the inner and outer lives of Black men in America. Through five deeply reflective movements, poet and pastor John David Smith weaves themes of identity, fatherhood, faith, fear, silence, survival, and resilienceThese poems bear witness to generational pain, spiritual strength, and the complexity of manhood in a world that often misreads or ignores the Black male experience. With language tha...

Love is not bound by time-but revealed through it.In Love in 4 Seasons, poet John David Smith invites readers on a heartfelt journey through the emotional landscapes of Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter-each season mirroring a stage of love's evolution.From the first stirrings of new affection to the quiet strength of enduring devotion, this collection unfolds with rich imagery, spiritual depth, and lyrical beauty...

The Presence of Knowing is a collection of 100 poems that explores the depths of the human experience through themes of love, loss, resilience, and self-discovery. Written with poignant reflection and a rhythmic cadence, these poems invite readers on an introspective journey to uncover the quiet strength that emerges from life's trials.Each poem is a window into the soul, offering solace and clarity, and a reminder that we are all connected through the sha...