Author of Mnemosyne: A Love Affair with Memory, published by Xlibris, The Rita Nitz Story: A Life without Parole, published by Southern Illinois University Press, Cherry Blossoms & Barron Plains: A woman’s journey from mental illness to a prison cell, published by Chipmunka Publishing Company, Supermax Prison: Controlling the most dangerous criminals, published by History Publishing Company.
Seemingly elusive, my path to happiness is quite simple. First, build yourself a flower garden, preferably one big enough to walk through. Surround it with bird houses, bird feeders, and a bird bath or two.
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Book to be released late April 2022 at retail stores. Advanced copies online through WiDo Publishing Company.
Prologue I should have known on that summer day In 1950 when my seven-year-old naked body was laid out over a bale of hay that this was not normal. I should have known. But I was the youngest and smallest of four boys in a place where the unspeakable was normal. Even at this veryContinue reading “Victims Make the Best Birdhouses”
Lara Mazzone Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2022 5.0 out of 5 stars. I couldn’t stop reading. A truly moving memoir about repressed memories and PTSD from sexual and emotional abuse. I finished the entire book in one day! Authors, myself included, view positive book reviews as the life blood of theirContinue reading “First review for “Victims Make the Best Birdhouses”
“Larry L. Franklin exposes the many inconsistencies and half-truths in the case. Along the way, he portrays a subculture of drifters in small-town southern Illinois and explains the life of an abused woman while confronting his own story of abuse as a child. Franklin’s investigation could change a woman’s life and correct a glaring injustice. This is a story that must be heard.”—Ted Anton, author of Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu
“The Rita Nitz Story is a compelling read, not because it's a slick thriller. . . but because Franklin is a passionate writer telling his readers a gritty tale—a story about a woman who has been a victim of one kind or another all of her life, and a story about how America's judicial system treats those without resources or even the imagination to seek them.”
"Franklin's ability to draw the reader in held me captive from the beginning. His story epitomizes how the journey to healing from childhood sexual abuse can be arduous and painful, but in the end, a triumph. His writing style allows you to take the journey with him and thus, it is an emotional upheaval at times. Like his other books, I was always anxious to turn the next page."
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