Destiny Allison is the award-winning author of four books, including The Romance Diet: Body Image and the Wars We Wage On Ourselves. Brave and unflinchingly honest, the multi award-winning memoir is a weight loss journey, a love story, and a guide to reclaiming our power through empathy.
The Romance Diet
Every day we battle against something – injustices, our spouses, our weight. Repressing feelings and silencing our voices, we suffer under the surface, attributing emotional distress to the inescapable effects of hormones or age. But weight gain, anxiety, and marital difficulties aren’t always so easy to explain.
The Romance Diet offers invaluable insight for those seeking to lose weight, save a marriage, or make a significant life change. Allison doesn’t offer recipes, exercise tips, or advice. She shows us how to stand up, express what we want, and develop empathy for ourselves and the people we love. Includes a Reader’s Guide.
Recognition of The Romance Diet includes:
- A National Indie Excellence Award for Women’s Issues
- 1st Place, Women’s Issues Non Fiction 2018, Top Shelf Magazine
- Grand Prize, The Journey Awards for Narrative Nonfiction
Shaping Destiny
Powerful, honest, and intensely personal, Shaping Destiny: A Quest for Meaning in Art and Life is about the conflicts between who we were taught to be and who we actually are. Allison drives to the heart of what it means to be a woman and an artist, revealing the sources of art that lie hidden in our personal experiences.
Shaping Destiny illuminates the creative process, suggests new ways of looking at and talking about art, and demonstrates that making art helps us discover our humanity and determine our lives.
“The closest literary fellow traveler to Shaping Destiny that comes to mind is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. [It] puts a finger on some important truths about the interaction between life and art – including the painful and difficult parts – and lays bare those truths with courage and conviction.”
Ted Orland, co-author of the bestselling Art & Fear
Pipe Dreams
If gene splicing could merge Margaret Atwood and Suzanne Collins, Pipe Dreams could be the result. Set in the near future, Allison’s dystopian novel follows Vanessa, forced to flee from those who would gain control of a viral threat to humanity.
Escaping through the sewer, Vanessa finds love, heartbreak, and the red beam of a gun sight dancing on the slick, black wall. In the deep dark of the foul pipe, she also discovers she has been betrayed. That’s when she learns Texas is real.
“As the multilayered plot lines of this epic adventure intensify […], Allison keeps the action moving at a gripping pace.”
Bitter root
In the second book of the Priscilla Strain, Destiny Allison continues the amazing story of the Kovalic legacy.
Edenton is a waste of rubble and ash, Vanessa has a secret, and the designers are still at large. Until they’re dead, she’ll never be free. In this exciting sequel to PipeDreams, Vanessa lays claim to her legacy and teams with McGrath to take them down, but the betrayal runs deeper than she thinks.
Lewis also escaped the island and the Priscilla virus is almost ready for release. As the pieces come together, Vanessa must decide what’s more important — vengeance or family.
