Special Guest- Dawnell Jacobs an Educator and Author

Columbus, GA — Dawnell Jacobs, a local Georgia educator, has released her highest selling novel in bookstores, Amazon and on Kindle. Writer’s Digest has hailed her novel as “a classic love triangle” with a “satisfactory” conclusion.Although unknown to most readers, the characters in her novel are based loosely on her own life. At 17 years old, Jacobs was homeless. Her mother, due to a mental illness, abandoned her and her three younger siblings (ages 3, 5, and 7) in the care of social services. Jacobs promised her siblings that she would get them out of the foster care. It was this promise that motivated her to finish her high school diploma, pursue a college education, and become an educator. She comments, “By becoming a teacher, I was able to fulfill my promise to my brothers and get them from foster care as well as help countless of other children just like me. Teaching gave me the income I needed to accomplish my goal, but it also gave me the avenue to help other children accomplish theirs.”After gaining custody of her siblings, Jacobs raised them, earned her Masters of Arts in Language Arts from Columbus State University, and pursued her PhD in Teaching and Learning. However, her friends and family persuaded Dawnell Jacobs to pursue her original dream of being an author. Thus, she decided to enter the world of publishing in hopes that she could pen a New York Times best seller and be featured on Oprah’s Book Club. In 2012, she founded Heal The Heart Publishing Company, LLC.