My Work
The Rocky Shores is available now
In his first published work, J.S Shepard’s The Rocky Shores provides a looking glass into the turmoil and challenges of a young man battling with addiction, heartbreak, and the juxtapositions of the good and bad in life.
Fueled by his coming-of-age experiences, Shepard’s strongly visual poetry offers readers insight into his world as he struggled with finding a place he belonged, as well as coping with, and ultimately overcoming, his addiction.
With his flowing prose, Shepard hopes that his work is accessible to readers and gives them a safe space to authentically feel the emotions they’re going through.
“Battling addiction and relationship struggles made that time in my life incredibly difficult, but I was able to break the cycle and overcome it, and I hope that readers that are facing their own challenges will be inspired and feel that they too can overcome,” said Shepard.
The Rocky Shores, is available now through Blurb and Amazon in soft cover (ISBN: 979-8-9855009-0-5) and e-book format (ISBN: 979-8-9855009-1-2).
““The Rocky Shores is a metaphor for the turmoil of youth. The battery of hormones, in a sea of new decisions and challenges, during a time when the storm of addition was causing chaos in my mind, almost broke my spirit and changed my life forever.””