Trespassers Will Be Baptized
How exciting is this! A friend of mine from waaay back in the day wrote a book and got published!
Emy Hancock and I grew up, for a few years at least, in the same church. Her dad was the pastor of my childhood church, Latonia Baptist, but her family moved to central KY around the second or third grade and I didn’t see her again for many years.
Our paths crossed again in 1995, when we were both part of GSP at NKU. Unfortunately, we lost touch after GSP, though I’ve heard mention of her a few times since those days. And there’s good reason why!
Since then, she’s been crowned Miss Massachusetts (1998) and competed in the Miss America pageant, graduated from Harvard, earned a law degree from Georgetown, become an environmental lawyer, gotten married, had a child and now she’s published. It would be a gross understatement to say she’s been busy and quite successful!
Now the point of the post – to spread word of her book:
Trespassers Will Be Baptized: The Unordained Memoir of a Preacher’s Daughter.
Amazon Product Description
Growing up Southern and Baptist in Eastern Kentucky, Elizabeth Hancock’s world revolved around Sunday School, foreign missions projects, revival meetings and of course, the Kentucky Wildcats, who “glorified God through their goal-shattering, soul-shattering play.” Hancock chronicles her childhood misadventures with sardonic wit, detailing her and her sister Meg’s mischievous – if harmless – abuses of power (stealing Guess jeans from the Africa donation box, or hawking backyard swimming pool baptisms during her neighborhood’s annual yard sale) and lovingly recalling the wisdom imparted by her long-suffering parents as they ministered to their unruly flock.
Kirkus Reviews
Humorously irreverent look at life as the eldest daughter of a Southern Baptist preacher whose philosophy, he once told her, “rests largely on the principle that all God’s glorious, perfect children are also dumb as dirt.” That pious but realistic comment framed Hancock’s childhood attempts to understand the church people around her as well as her own special role as the PK (preacher’s kid) in 1980s Kentucky. Her experiences will ring true for anyone long involved in a church, as she sardonically tells of busybodies and holier-than-thou congregants while keeping the main focus on the sincere believers who were her true beacon, none more so than her parents and sister. A large portion of the memoir pokes fun at the silly and often maddening people found in any congregation, prompting many a good laugh. But [the author] goes deeper, delving into her own spiritual journey. [Her] experiences are the true crucible of anyone’s faith, and they certainly shaped Hancock. The reader comes away hoping that this rueful autobiographer will tap more of her memories in the future. Expressive and thoroughly entertaining.
Congratulations, Emy, on your book and having a baby!
My friend Jen, who I met at GSP, is also published – Causation, Psychology, and Law.
And here’s yet another interesting connection from GSP. My roommate was Andy Beshear. You may have heard of his dad, Steve – the governor of Kentucky.
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Still remember you emailing me about Car-Part's website.
never flown?! that blows me away! typo in the 'caliper'. 
