UNSPOKEN
"Grabs your heart and doesn’t let go. Ruby Lee Becker’s silence is louder than any storm. The Texas Panhandle is tough country but Ruby meets it head-on. There’s grit and grace here."
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EDITORS' CHOICE
Historical Novels Review, HNS
VACANCY
"A grieving mother, a scarred veteran, and a runaway teen cling to the only remaining people they can call family as a dusty Texas town lays blame on them for a tragedy no one saw coming.”
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CAM TORRENS, bestselling author of the Tyler Zahn series
Reminds me, in tone, of Texas classics like The Time it Never Rained and Giant. I loved Unspoken. Alexander is a great new talent in the genre of Texana.
—W. F. STRONG
author, Stories From Texas, and radio commentator for NPR Texas
Fans of Kristen Hannah’s Four Winds will devour Unspoken, Jann Alexander’s tale of Ruby Lee’s gritty Texas Dust Bowl journey.
—CAM TORRENS
award-winning author of the Tyler Zahn suspense series
Vacancy slips us into the shoes of two women struggling to find their footing in the harsh, yet beautiful winds of change. A poignant story of resilience and promise.
—KAY SMITH-BLUM
author of Tangles, A Cold War Love Story
Upcoming Events
ADVENTURE GIVEAWAY!
CELEBRATE UNSPOKEN'S FIRST YEAR!
NEWCOMERS BOOK CLUB
WEDNESDAY, JULY 8
Georgetown, Texas
HIDDEN HISTORY PRESENTATION MONDAY, JULY 27, 2026, 1:30 PM CT
HISTORY TALKS FEATURING:
THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF
THE TEXAS DUST BOWL
Jann Alexander, author of the best-selling Unspoken: A Dust Novel, brings to light little-known stories of Texans who endured the state’s harshest era. In a one-hour talk with striking imagery, film footage, maps, music, and firsthand accounts, she illustrates how the Dust Bowl transformed Texas’s landscape, economy, and identity, and informed her historical novel, Unspoken.
WOMEN OF THE NEW DEAL
Author Jann Alexander shares the little-known
stories of three women who were pivotal to the success of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl eras: Frances Perkins (The Only Woman In The Room), Dorothea Lange (The Woman Behind The Camera), and Eleanor Roosevelt (The President’s Eyes And Ears), based on a dozen years of research that informed her best-selling historical novel, Unspoken.
PRAISE FOR THE HIDDEN HISTORY PRESENTATION
"I received so many glowing comments about both your command of history and your presentation style." —Dubravka Romano, Curriculum Committee Chair, OLLI Discover Program
About Jann Alexander
I'm an author, photographer, and speaker.
My characters face down their fears, in novels that are as close-to-true as fiction can get.
I specialize in time travel. Read Unspoken, my best-selling novel and the first in The Dust Series that stars historic Texas during the Dirty Thirties. Move on to the next book in The Dust Series, Vacancy, my fictionalized true crime novel that doubles as second-chance romance. Explore my photography of Vanishing Austin, Mother Earth, and Texana. Journey into the American southwest and Mexico, along the Mission Trail, as I capture the colors in my paintings and photos.
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