Spreading hope through writing
Jonathon McClellan Author Jonathon McClellan’s 2 books are based on his own experiences with homelessness and schizophrenia TAMMYE NASH | Managing Editornash@dallasvoice.com Writing was my secret key to unlock the door back into reality,” said local author Jonathon McClellan, explaining the beginning of his career as a writer.
Now, not only has he found and unlocked that doorway, he has stepped on through to write two books, both of which were recently published.
The first of the two is called Messages of Hope, and it is a devotional book of prose and poetry, “written in my own style,” for adults, McClellan said. “This is a collection of honest conversations between me — at my lowest, weakest and most vulnerable — and God.
It’s something I wrote not knowing that it would ever become an actual book.” He said he wrote Messages of Hope when he was fighting with schizophrenia, loneliness and bereavement. “I had made many attempts at taking my own life, and I was looking for a way to silence the background noise.
