Sheila Ruby - Author

🎧 FREE Audible Codes Available! 🎧

My memoir, A Brief Silence, is now live on Audible, and I have free download codes available in exchange for an honest review.

A Brief Silence shares my journey through foster care, adoption, family struggles, military service, motherhood, and the challenges that shaped who I am today. It's a deeply personal story about resilience, loss, healing, and finding hope through life's hardest moments.

If you enjoy memoirs, true stories, or inspirational nonfiction, I'd love to send you a free Audible code.

Just comment below or send me a message, and I'll provide a code while supplies last.

After you've listened, I would greatly appreciate an honest review on Audible. Reviews help independent authors more than you can imagine and help other readers discover the book.

Listen here:
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A Brief Silence: A Memoir A Brief Silence: A Memoir

I have US and UK Audible promo codes available for my poetry audiobook A Shadow’s Lament: A Collection of Poems. If you enjoy dark emotional poetry and would be willing to leave an honest review, comment below or message me. This would allow you to download the audiobook for free, and all that I ask is that you leave an honest review after you have listened to it.

https://reedsy.com/discovery/book/a-shadow-s-lament-sheila-ruby

A Shadow's Lament by Sheila Ruby - Reviewed by Karen Crumley Review: A poetic journey that centers on themes of love and loss, faith, heartache, abandonment, and resilience. Every poem is heartfelt.

This is now available as an audiobook on Amazon!
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Coming later this month, A Brief Silence: A Memoir will be available as an audiobook as well! ❤️

I submitted my book to Reedsy to have an honest review done for it over a month ago and I received the review back yesterday. I have still been struggling with the loss of my son but it really meant a lot to read this review. I will post it here, but before I do, I wanted to share something.

I have found pages and pages of my son's writing over the last couple of weeks and I have been astonished by his writing. His writers voice is very different from mine and the passion, fire, pain, and sometimes humor in his writing has left me speechless at times. He has written short stories, beginnings of books he never had the chance to finish, and poetry that left my heart broken.

One day, when the time is right, and when I am ready, I am going to bring light to his work to honor him and his story and the beauty in his writing. I dedicated my collection of poems to Julian and it is heartbreaking he never got the chance to finish reading it.

In the past I had started saving money for Julian from my book sales to give him when he graduated high school and now I am going to do that for his sister Brianna.

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Review:
A Shadow’s Lament by Sheila Ruby is a touching and emotional collection of poems; when put together they reveal the bittersweet tale of the poet and her journey. It is a heartbreaking story of neglect, abandonment, abuse, heartache, love, and growth. You see into the author’s heart, mind, and soul with every line. Sheila Ruby has done her job on making me feel each line and verse. Reading this has deeply affected me emotionally and spiritually.

These poems are divided into four different parts, similar to chapters. Each one represents a segment of the poetic story.

The rhythm, rhyme and verse keeps you in tune with the emotions of each poem. The fear, loss, sorrow…all of it we feel along with the writer. Reading this book is like an act of lyrical empathy. And, this is how poetry should be. It’s akin to listening to your favorite album and feeling every song.

I love all of the poems in this collection. However my favorite is Before Your Throne, a bold affirmation of faith in God and his mercy. There is nothing offensive or off-putting in these poems; but often the emotions it conveys range from loss, heartbreak, fears, and sorrows.

At its core is a story of resilience through a life of pain, sorrow, and abandonment. This collection is a show of strength through turmoil. It reflects the horrors of life that we go through as well as a quest for love and acceptance. These poetic works also may encourage others who are going through tough times.

I detected no errors in this book, and the formatting was beautifully done with illustrations of flora interwoven throughout the pages. The poems are beautifully penned, and well formatted. If you enjoy poetry, you will love this book. I highly recommend it. Thus, I give it a full 5 out of 5 stars.

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I'm so excited about publishing my novel this year! There is still a lot of work that needs done but I wanted to share a little bit about it. As you can see this will be my 3rd book published, but my first fiction novel which is really exciting for me.

I can't wait to see what this year brings for me! Anyways I wanted to share the notes my editor sent me a couple of months ago because it really made me so proud and helped me feel like I am in the right place with everything 🫶

I took out anything that had spoilers but this is her feedback!

"The House on Burr Avenue was such a fun edit, and I feel so lucky to have been selected for your project. Your book falls perfectly into what I would select for myself to read outside of work, so I really got to experience the storyline as an engaged reader and an editor! You definitely have a knack for horror and suspense - from the beginning to the very end, the plot is intentional and thought out, and I can tell you took your time developing each chapter and event. Even having the slow progression of your characters individually experiencing the house worked beautifully. They all get a glimpse of the paranormal in their own time and for their own reason.

Your thought process for horror fits the style of the book flawlessly. When the scene was needed to grip the reader, you were able to take the moment outside of predictable, while keeping your author's voice. I had the unfortunate timing of choosing to edit that chapter at night. By the end, I was so spooked and on edge - but in the BEST way. And even then, I still felt like I was still reading The House on Burr Avenue, and not as if I was transported into a creepy scene that didn't fit the rest of the book. You should be super proud of your manuscript, managing to create a storyline that has not been overdone with characters who are extremely likable (maybeeee not Dan, though. I haven't decided yet. Haha!) But really, terrific work. I can't wait to take a second look after your revisions."

I have made a lot of updates to my website over the last few days, including a little teaser for my first novel that I will publishing this year (hopefully this summer)! If you haven't checked it out in a while, it's a great time to see updates!

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