Books I’ve Written
If you are an agent or publisher seeking powerful, transformative narratives rooted in justice, trauma, and human dignity, I welcome you to reach out. These books are only the beginning.
Love Letters From Prison
Love Letters from Prison is a visceral, intimate memoir that traces the unraveling and rebuilding of a woman who never imagined her life would lead behind bars. After an accidental homicide shatters the world she knew, Lindsy enters the Utah State Prison system stripped of identity, stripped of motherhood, and stripped of the illusions that once kept her alive. What follows is not a tale of punishment, but of awakening. Through moments of unbearable shame, unexpected grace, and the stark brutality of incarceration, she confronts the truth of what she has done, and what has been done to her.
Anchored by the letters she wrote and the ones she longed to receive, this memoir reveals the internal landscapes of confinement: the suffocating silence, the warped sense of time, the cold that lives in the bones, and the incandescent spark of humanity that refuses to die. In the darkest January of her life, a single breath of winter air becomes a revelation. Love Letters from Prison is a story of accountability without self-destruction, of grief transmuted into meaning, and of how a woman learns to stay alive not in spite of her past, but because she chooses to face it.
The House of the Garden of Ashes
The House of the Garden of Ashes is a literary, psychological novel that blurs the line between inner world and outer world, reality and revelation. Jennifer’s life fractures after a series of losses she cannot outrun. When she enters a strange, impossible place, part-house, part-garden, part-myth, she discovers a landscape built from the architecture of her own mind: stone paths that shift beneath her feet, vines that carry the memories of others, leaves made of molten gold and glass, and the shimmering, inscrutable presence of the Fulgur Wall, a force of nature that feels as inevitable as gravity.
As Jennifer travels deeper into this realm, she begins to understand that the house is not a refuge but a reckoning. The Garden of Ashes is where illusions burn away, where truths root themselves in strange soil, and where the boundaries of self can no longer be maintained through denial. Each encounter forces her to confront the failures, betrayals, and buried griefs that have shaped her, but also the dormant power waiting beneath the ruins.
Eerie, luminous, and quietly transcendent, The House of the Garden of Ashes is a story of a woman rebuilding her interior world from scorched foundations. It is about what remains when everything false has burned, and what extraordinary things can grow in the ash.
The Selfish Art of Forgiveness:
An Empowering Instructional Guide
The Selfish Art of Forgiveness is a raw, unorthodox, and fiercely compassionate guide for anyone who has been devastated by someone they once loved and who now carries a weight of rage, grief, shame, or unresolved trauma so heavy it shapes every corner of life. Written from lived experience rather than clinical distance, this book rejects the idea that forgiveness is moral performance, reconciliation, or absolution. Instead, it reframes forgiveness as an act of radical self-preservation, a process of freeing your own mind, body, and spirit from the person who hurt you.
The guide dismantles traditional, often spiritualized narratives and instead offers concrete, step-by-step exercises that walk the reader through naming their pain, understanding their trauma responses, dismantling the “monster” their mind has built, and reclaiming their power. It speaks directly, humorously, sometimes darkly, and always with startling honesty about the realities of abuse, manipulation, trauma bonds, and the messy emotional landscape left behind. Readers are guided through inventories, visualizations, and deeply reflective prompts that make forgiveness not a vague aspiration, but a practical, doable path toward freedom.
The book does not ask the reader to minimize what happened or to extend compassion prematurely. Instead, it urges them to look unflinchingly at the truth, to understand the humanity and wounds behind the person who caused harm, and, most importantly, to rediscover their own worth, autonomy, and ability to create a life ungoverned by past suffering. With its blend of humor, darkness, psychological insight, and self-empowering tools, The Selfish Art of Forgiveness teaches one thing above all: forgiveness is not a gift you give someone else; it is the doorway back to yourself.
Dali Dyson Flynn is an anagram for my name; proof that when I wrote this book, I wasn’t yet ready to fully be seen. This book was self-published in Spring 2024.