As you go through the workbook by author Ken Montrose, try to be as honest with yourself as you can. No matter how you answer the questions, stay clean and sober.

The Road Way Less Traveled: Starting Recovery Young by Ken Montrose

This workbook addresses questions frequently asked by young people new to recovery: What will I do? Who will I spend time with? How will I get through life without drugs? Why are drugs so hard to quit? The text underscores how the resilience of youth is eventually overwhelmed by the progressive nature of addiction. Contains a parable about burning down houses infested with singing rats.

The Introduction follows:
I. Introduction
Young people trying to get clean and sober often ask certain questions about life without alcohol and other drugs. The questions they ask most often are:
– What will I do?
– Who will I spend time with?
– How will I get through college or the military without drinking?
– How will I handle special occasions like my 21st? Graduation? My wedding reception?
– Why are drugs so hard to quit?

This workbook tries to help you answer some of these questions. As you go through the workbook, try to be as honest with yourself as you can. No matter how you answer the questions, stay clean and sober.

About the author Ken Montrose:

Blind cat
I did a lot of personal research into the life of an alcoholic. The last time I had a drink I made an illegal left turn at 3:00 a.m., hitting a county sheriff. I was $35K in debt. I had just gotten kicked out of my Ph.D. program. My divorce was a month from being final. I lived in an apartment with no furniture. My cat was blind.

When Even the Voices are Hungover
I learned about mental illness by spending ten years helping people with schizophrenia overcome addiction. We’d talk about why partying with the voices was a bad idea, or the importance of not mixing Prolixin with crack. I was humbled by folks who stayed sober despite delusions, paranoia, hospitalizations, and horrible medication side effects.

Write now?
I started writing when I was in my early thirties. I wrote Dancing With Rachel in 1995, got a literary agent, and became an expert on rejection letters. Greenbriar Treatment Center asked me to write the workbooks we gave to patients. We began selling them online and at conferences, where they were very well received.

Lucky me
I have a wife and two children. They amaze me everyday. I work at a rehab. The people there amaze me as well. Much of what I write is inspired by their struggles. I am working on AArdvarks another daily meditation book for recovering addicts, a series of short stories, and a novella about the clash between a shadow government, the real government, and people forced to take sides.

Laverty Sparks is a former advertising copywriter turned full-time novelist of contemporary romances.

Private Pursuits by Laverty Sparks

On the highway of life, it’s hard to tell where a trip will lead by just looking at one end.

Macey Burris wants out. Away from rural Illinois, her meager part-time job, single motherhood, and sacrifices. But she’ll have to address the missteps, mishaps, and mistakes stalling her journey to freedom. Those setbacks won’t be easy to relinquish. And when an unexpected love interest detours her, she must courageously choose to stay the course or give in to salvation.

Each character is individually trapped, lost in a prison of their own making or unsustainable circumstance. Separately, he or she has mapped out their own personal destination. Yet there are no quick fixes, revealing the hearts, minds, and struggles to be human in a flawed world. Collectively, each party struggles with a panorama of thwarted desire, desperation, hope, loss and ruin, all setting their sights on the road ahead.

About the author, Laverty Sparks:

Laverty Sparks, a/k/a Laurel Sparks-Sellers, is a former advertising copywriter turned full-time novelist of contemporary romances. She pens from “That’s All She Wrote Writing Studio” in the Midwest with a focus on female fiction: those women who know what love is all about, what works and what doesn’t. Ones who have been there, done it, learned from it (including herself!) Aside from composing words, her other passions include her patient and supportive husband, her extended family, traveling, photography, decorating, exercising, casino gambling, and of course reading. A graduate of Purdue University in Indiana, she’s been a writer since her fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Baldwin, encouraged her in writing and reading skills. Since those young school days, Laverty has had a love affair with books which transformed into the desire to write them. Her newest works include “Leather Horizons” and “Private Pursuits” available on Amazon.

Laverty loves to hear from her readers. Please visit her website at laurelsparkswriting.com

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