Author Jamie Loreth’s The Pink Blanket Inspires International Movement Against Domestic Violence

The secret she kept close to her heart is out now, and she’s glad.

She did it.

It hadn’t been easy. She’d done it in stealth, quietly, afraid to say it out loud…

“I’m writing a book.”

Those are the words she DIDN’T say, when her husband at the time asked what she was doing over there on her phone.

And now that it’s out, the compelling story, THE PINK BLANKET, is doing more than just entertaining readers. As Authority magazine pointed out in an upcoming feature profile of the author, the novel is actually inspiring a movement.

As Jamie recently told Los Angeles’ Prosperi Press, “Domestic abuse is something I am familiar with, both directly and indirectly…Writing was a passion that has flourished from the time I was a young girl. Being a writer was a dream that failed to fade and only continued to grow with every year that passed by. So as forty closed in, I made the decision: it was now or never.”

She tells how the idea of the novel (the first in a series) struck her suddenly.

She was herself living in an “unhealthy, abusive marriage” and the main character in The Pink Blanket came alive, “a woman faced with the trials of leaving an abusive husband even though she loved him.”

When the idea came to her, she says, “I told myself it was now or never. So, with a creative imagination, the drive to succeed, and passionate to help others, I decided with the one go around at this gift I’ve been given called “Life” the only chance I had at making my dream of being a successful author come true, was to chase after it.”

So she did. She wrote the book, and initially nervous about becoming public in her small community, published it under the pen name J. Lynn Ady.

Recently, inspired to make another vision a reality, Jamie has begun speaking publicly about her work — and her next project — inspired by her incredible debut novel.

Bringing together others passionate about the cause from different disciplines, Jamie says : “There are so many opportunities and platforms to help ignite such an amazing cause, that The Pink Blanket Campaign could benefit from nationally. I started to see beyond the narrow window of what “I one day hoped to accomplish” and turned it into “making it happen NOW.”

In her Prosperi article, Loreth says she is inspired by the idea of “bringing empowering women with diverse offerings together, all of whom hold valuable knowledge and expertise in different aspects of healing to offer women fleeing domestic violence.”

The idea behind the Pink Blanket Campaign is to fundraise or find sponsors to pay for cozy, warm, pink blankets to donate to women fleeing domestic violence as they come into shelter spaces — a warm, loving symbolic hug — something they can keep when they leave, and wrap around themselves for comfort with an associated awareness campaign and funds to assist in services to get them back on their feet.

She’s calling out to women across North America who want to get involved with The Pink Blanket initiative to contact her via her publicist at http://www.lamouriemedia.com lamouriePR@gmail.com