John DeDakis
Novelist Speaker/Workshop Leader Writing Coach Manuscript Editor Podcaster
April 24/25
I'll be leading a weekend Writing to Heal retreat at the Franciscan Spirituality Center in my hometown of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Registrants will receive a free copy of one of my novels. To learn more, click on the button below.
April 28
WRITING THROUGH GRIEF AND LOSS9:00 - 10:30 a.m.Skaalen Retirement Community400 N. Morris St.Stoughton, Wisconsin 53718free admission
May 5-9
I'll be returning to Thrillerfest in NYC, where, once again, I'll be among the QueryFest editors critiquing the first pages of manuscripts submitted by registrants.
Move Toward the pain
In this fast-paced conversation, Danielle Hutchinson gets me talking about the importance of moving toward our inner pain.
Change Happened
On her podcast, Heather Holt got me talking about the day I had to tell my parents that their daughter was dead. That was more than 45 years ago, but the emotions are still raw.
We cover a lot of ground in a quick half hour.....all the way to hope and healing.
Grappling with Grief
Dr. Andrew Wilner interviewed me for his The Art of Medicine podcast. We talk about how writing helped me heal from the car/train collision I witnessed as a kid, the suicide of my sister, and the sudden death of my youngest son. Dr. Wilner is the first interviewer with the courage to ask me if I feel guilty for seeming to capitalize on my son's death. See and hear our conversation below.
On her first day as White House Press Secretary, Lark Chadwick is confronted on live television by a reporter with an agenda who asks, “Are you, or are you not, planning to abort your unborn child?” His question puts Lark in the crosshairs of extremists on both sides of the highly fraught abortion issue. Ambivalent about becoming a single mother in the post-Roe era, and grieving the death of her boyfriend, Lark is now forced to make her abort-or-not-to-abort decision in a highly toxic, politicized, and polarized fishbowl. At stake: her sanity—and her life.
In the political thriller ENEMIES DOMESTIC, his most important and controversial book to date, former CNN editor John DeDakis dramatically and thoughtfully tackles the hot topics of abortion, QAnon, White Christian Nationalism, and mental illness at a time when America itself is teetering between democracy and authoritarianism.
In the political thriller ENEMIES DOMESTIC, his most important and controversial book to date, former CNN editor John DeDakis dramatically and thoughtfully tackles the hot topics of abortion, QAnon, White Christian Nationalism, and mental illness at a time when America itself is teetering between democracy and authoritarianism.
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