Shirley Dicks Author

Shirley Dicks Speaks on these subjects
1.     Death Penalty/anti violence
  2.    Choices for Teens
  3.   Writing Non Fiction
4.   Self Publishing/Traditional publishing Your Book
5.   Medical Abuses in prison

Shirley Dicks is author of twelve books and has many articles published in magazines. She's also been on Geraldo, Maury, Sally, Rolonda, Jerry Springer and The Shirley Show in Canada.   The BBC did a documentary on her life story and a Movie producer took an option on her life story, A Mothers Torment. www.amotherstorment.com

Shirley Dicks speaks at the schools, colleges, churches and groups on the choices kids make in life. After fifteen years with the Journey of Hope where speakers go out in pairs to speak to kids on the death penalty, it made such an impact that she tells from both sides of the issue.

After watching the DVD, kids hear about those on death row, and how they came to be on death row because they made the wrong choices in life, got involved in drugs, alcohol, crime and gangs. These men tell it like it was, making no excuses for themselves. The kids hear what it's like in prison, fighting to stay alive each day. They hear how their choices are now taken away from them, right down to what they eat and when. They are told when to shower, and with an audience. Their food is given to them through a piehole in the door which they must eat sitting on their beds. No more will they be eating steak, Hamburg, pizza and many more of the things they loved on the outside.

Shirley speaks about their lives after her older son was wrongly convicted and sentenced to die because he hung with the wrong kind of person. Although he never took part in any crime, he was convicted along with his friend. She tells the kids what will happen to their own families if they get into trouble. Most kids don't think that what they do will affect their own family. They don't know that their brothers or sisters will be shunned at school and the so called good kids will not play with them. No one wants to have anything to do with a family who has someone in prison or on death row. They are considered second class citizens now. So now when they get into trouble, or drugs and alcohol, they will know it will affect their own families.

Even the kids who are tough, most of the time care about their own loved ones, and after listening to Shirley about what their family went through and still going through, it makes them think. Now it's not just themselves they have to think about. Now they have to worry about what will happen to their mothers, sisters and brothers if they get into trouble and they have to make a choice. Which road to go down in life.

** Jeff and Trevor were both killed. Jeff to medical neglect and Trevor to a car crash.

Shirley doesn't fly so where she speaks she drives to. So there are certain states she doesn't do which we'll list. For those who can not bring her to your school, we'll be having another DVD with her and Trevor on it with their speaking in the summer of 2008. To be placed on the listing to be contacted

when it's ready, email us        For more information on Shirley Dicks and how to get her booked to your school or college, contact me today. Marie Jones marie@usapromotion.net

Shirley will travel to these states:

ALABAMA ARKANSAS CONNECTICUT DELAWARE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FLORIDA GEORGIA ILLINOIS INDIANA IOWA KANSAS KENTUCKY LOUISIANA MAINE MARYLAND MASSACHUSETTS MICHIGAN MISSISSIPPI MISSOURI NEBRASKA NEW HAMPSHIRE NEW JERSEY NEW YORK NORTH CAROLINA OHIO PENNSYLVANIA RHODE ISLAND SOUTH CAROLINA TENNESSEE VERMONT VIRGINIA WEST VIRGINIA WISCONSIN

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Provide venue arrangements (time, location, and equipment for the event).

Provide hospitality for our speaker, including food, lodging if an overnight stay is necessary (home stay is often okay) and transportation to and from home

Publicize events within your community and to the local media.

Provide fee (contact us for that info) and travel expenses for the speaker.
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The Choice Is Yours DVD. Filmed on Tn Death row with five middle aged prisoners talk to the kids about getting into trouble and finding themselves on death row. More HERE	Road Angels will take you across the country and takes a look at the women who ride motorcycles and why. HERE	The loss of a loved one brings grief and pain. For the homicide survivor, the normal anger of grief is compounded by the rage and desire to violently destroy the murderer of the loved one. More here....	The Choice Is Yours Book and DVD Filmed on Tennessee's death row For all Teens. To read more Here....	Congregation of the Condemned A collection of interviews with experts on the death penalty. here... Prometheus Books Publisher. Order at Amazon.com

Young Blood - Juvenile Crime in the US Read more here Order from Prometheus or Amazon.com	Victims of Crime and Punishment Read More Here Order from Amazon.com or iUniverse.com 11.95	Death Row Tennessee death row inmates, victims of crime and experts on the death penalty. here Order from iUniverse.com or Amazon.com 9.95	They're Going to Kill My Son first autobiography Hard back copy. Local book stores. Amazon.com	Easy Guide For Beginning Writers By Brenda Thomas & Shirley Dicks