* As president of the National Association of Memoir Writers, the author has an international audience.

* The author was featured in The New York Times in an article called Appeal of Memoir Grows, as Do Publishing Options and she is a regularly sought-out expert on memoir. Myers is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post, and garners on average 200 likes and shares for each post she writes.

* 34% of people who sexually abuse a child are family members

* An estimated 679,000 children were victims of abuse and neglect in 2013, according to the National Children’s Alliance.

* 40,000 new infants are placed in foster care each year.

* Up to 100 children each month are abandoned and turned over to the Department of Social Welfare and Development