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1. Press Kit
For
Denise Jones
Author of
Who Said It Couldn’t Be Done?

2. Author Bio
Author Denise Jones was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois.
Molested by multiple men, including family members, before
the age of six, her life took a much more drastic turn when she
dropped out of school at an early age and began a life of crime to
support her newly formed drug habit. After nearly 15 years of
raucous living, today Denise turned her life around and today she
holds both a bachelor’s and master’s degree.
As a certified HIV/AIDS counselor, deliverance minister, and
Promo Sheet
inspirational speaker, amongst other things, Denise currently
travels promoting her new book, Who Said It Couldn’t Be Done: The
Story of Denise Jones a Diamond from the Rough. Offering
inspirational and life-encouraging messages to people from all
walks of life, Denise is available to speak at your next event or
conference.
Book Recap
Who Said It Couldn’t Be Done? candidly chronicles one woman’s jour-
ney from life on Chicago’s Westside involving poverty, incest,
drug addiction , incarceration and lesbianism to sobriety, spiritual
redemption and inner peace. In Denise’s words, “ Deep insecurity,
drug addiction and role confusion tormented me for years. Often I
wondered if I were a boy or a girl; if I were human or an animal.
Who am I? What am I? Why am I?”
Do not miss your opportunity to be touched by her powerful story.
Her message to the masses is, “ Therefore if any man be in Christ
Jesus, he is a new creature; old things are passed away and behold,
all things are new ( 2 Corinthians 5:17).”
Interview Questions:
1.) What is the significance of the title Who Said It Couldn’t Be Done?
2.) What was your life like growing up?
3.) Was it hard to forgive and move on from your past?
3.) How is your relationship with your mother?
4.) What made you finally decide to change your lifestyle?
5.) What advice or words of encouragement would you give to others
with backgrounds similar to yours?
For bookings and interviews, contact Traneisha Jones with T. Jones PR at
(225)235-6706 or tee-jones@hotmail.com.

3. Denise Jones was born in Chicago, IL on
November 10, 1960. As the oldest of seven,
Denise’s mother would often leave her to
care for her siblings, while she went on
drug binges that ended only when she
returned to their home in Rockwell Garden
Housing Projects to throw wild sex and
drug parties. Her mother’s lifestyle
eventually lured her, and at the age of
Author Denise Jones
twelve Denise found her self dropping out
of school and quickly becoming a heroine
addict. Driven partly by her mother’s
lifestyle, and partly by her own dark past
which included molestation by her
grandfather, uncle, cousin and several other
men by the age of six; Denise led a lesbian
lifestyle laced with drugs and crime for over
fifteen years. Today she is redeemed.
At the age of 26, Denise gave her life to the
Lord Jesus Christ and the rest, as they say, is history. She returned to school and
earned her GED from Olive-Harvey College in 1993. She went on to graduate
from National Louis University in 2007 with a Bachelor’s degree in Applied
Behavior and in 2009 she graduated from Spertus College with a Master’s degree
in Nonprofit Management and a concentration in Human Services
Administration.
Today, Denise is a certified HIV/AIDS counselor with specialized training in
strategic planning, grant writing development, consulting and board develop-
ment for non-profit organizations. Denise is also a deliverance minister, author
and inspirational speaker. She has over 10 years experience inspiring small
business owners, entrepreneurs, nonprofit leadership groups and individuals in a
career or life transition to use their gifts and abilities to master their goals, obtain
their destines and achieve success beyond their wildest dreams. Denise has an
innate ability to develop managers and counselors at all levels into powerful
leaders and innovative thinkers. She believes strongly in applying a holistic
approach to success and works hard to promote balance in all areas of her
client’s lives. Whether it is business, career, family, relationships or personal
satisfaction, Denise is an expert at motivating clients to see the big picture,
create a vision, overcome obstacles and define a realistic plan to begin living a life
they love.
After defying all odds and conquering her own demons, today, Denise has great
compassion and love for helping others. This love and compassion has inspired
her to tell her story in her first book, “Who Said It Couldn’t Be Done?”. This
candid, true-life account is a heartwarming and inspirational story about a little
girl whose mother failed her. It is also about choices – good ones as well as bad
ones. It pains Denise to remember the hurt she caused in her community and in
her family. As a result, she has made it her life commitment to help change the
lives of other individuals who are presently coming up on the rough side of the
mountain.

5. For more information:
Traneisha Y. Jones
tee-jones@hotmail.com
(225)235-6706
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Like Mother, Like Daughter
Who Said It Couldn’t Be Done: The Story of Denise Jones a Diamond from the Rough
Chicago, IL- April 13, 2011- Mothers are supposed to be nurturers. They are supposed to be the ones who
protect their children from harm and guide them in a direction that will lead to productive and fruitful lives. Back
then, Denise Jones’ mother failed her. A product of her own upbringing, Denise’s mother, raised her in the most
gruesome environment imaginable. Following in her mother’s treacherous path, Denise took on the same demons
that had usurped authority in her mother’s life.
In this heart-wrenching autobiography, Author Denise Jones expounds on her triumph over life’s obstacles- from
childhood molestation, prostitution, drug addiction, and prison; to becoming a successful inspirational speaker,
minister, and self-published author.
“From the first chapter (Annie Mae) to the testimonies under (The Witness Protection Program), I could not stop
turning the pages. Ms. Jones has let us into her former “shady world” with binoculars on. I traveled through her
gritty journey like I was standing right there with her, with my mouth wide open in disbelief and shock.”
In this candid, true-life account, Denise Jones depicts her rocky upbringing and recounts her search to desperately
find herself. Am I a girl? Am I a boy? Am I even human? After many cycles of living the street life and facing a sixty
year prison sentence, Denise turns to drugs one last time. However, on that day, not even the dope wanted any
dealings with her. Everywhere she turned to get high she was blocked. “I knew then, God was trying to tell me
something.” Having dropped out of school in the fourth grade, Jones goes on to recount her journey from prison
to promise, which includes her obtaining her GED and eventually a Master’s degree, and an appearance on The
Oprah Winfrey Show. In addition to her own redemption, Jones also touches on her mother’s recovery, and the
restoration of their relationship as mother and daughter.
Since releasing Who Said It Couldn’t Be Done in Summer 2010, Jones has had several television and print interviews.
Currently, she is touring to promote the book and has made appearances at The Men & Women’s Homeless
Shelter/HIV Recovery Center in Belize, Central America where she was listed as a top motivational speaker, The
2010 Black Women’s Expo, where she was a top selling author, and at several prisons and county jails in Illinois,
Wisconsin, Florida, and Georgia.
For more information about Denise Jones’ Who Said It Could Be Done, log on to
www.whosaiditcouldntbedone.com
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6. Publication Date: May 2010
Genre: Autobiography
ISBN: Paperback: 978-1-4520-0354-2; Hardcover: 978-4520-0353-5
Retail Price: Paperback: $19.99; Hardcover: $24.99
To book Denise Jones for an engagement, book signing or special guest appearance,
please send an e-mail to T.Jones PR, Marketing and Writing Boutique at
tee-jones@hotmail.com.
To order review copies, please send an e-mail to dmercedes700@sbcglobal.net.
Who Said It Couldn’t Be Done? Is available wherever books are sold, including
online at www.authorhouse.com, www.barnesandnoble.com, and www.amazon.com.
Request Who Said It Couldn’t Be Done? at your local bookstore.

7. Pain (Excerpt from Who Said It Couldn’t Be Done?)
My earliest memory is of pain. I remember lying across my mother’s lap on the living room sofa very early
one Saturday morning. She was wasted from the night before. I could smell a creepy odor climbing out of her
mouth. Years later, I learned it was the tart tinge of alcohol, forged with cigarette smoke camouflaged by Big
Red chewing gum. Mother and her cheap wine had become one. The sultry lure of the liquid spirit had a be-
witching way of overtaking her, causing her to believe she possessed incredible abilities. The prolific im-
pulses came sharply; this time in the form of surgical powers.
Mother rummaged through the house searching for a sewing needle. She found the small piece of metal
in one of the kitchen drawers, between a stack of folded grocery receipts and unopened junk mail. She burned
the tip on the blue flame coming from our stove and then dipped it in rubbing alcohol. I can still remember the
hissing noise that broke the uneasy silence as the hot steel collided with the cool liquid. She returned to her
same position on the sofa and put my head back on her lap. She looked down at me and smiled, then pressed a
small piece of ice against my earlobe to deaden my nerves, but it did not work. I cringed in blinding pain as
my chilled skin cracked open under the sharp blow of that needle, then the slow sliding of it through my flesh.
I screamed powerlessly at the top of my lungs and struggled pointlessly to free myself from the ‘giant hand’
possessing the ‘evil dagger’.
Mother, still high and obviously oblivious to my mangled emotions and mounting agony, coldly
immobilized my whirling head, then stabbed me a second time, ramming the ‘dagger’ clean through my other
ear lobe. The nurturer who caressed my head upon her lap just moments earlier had grown fangs. My struggle
was futile against her greedy assault. She seemed amused, pleased even, at the escalating level of my terror. I
looked up at her again, but this time in stark confusion; she was still smiling, and then she started laughing.
Her wicked laughter taunted my dizzy head, which was still pinned to her hard, collaborating knee. I shivered
in fear, my teeth chattered. A quiet stream of blood flowed from my nose, but no tears would follow. Suddenly
I was more afraid than I had ever been, especially of my mother’s hand. Her hand had frightened me many
times before; it had always been harsh, but that day it was harsher, colder, than I had ever experienced before.
Her hand seemed hungry somehow; salivating as if it wanted to kill me and swallow me whole. I felt a need to
keep my mother’s hand back, but her teeth were still showing and that frightened me. I shut my eyes tightly,
took in a deep breath… and screamed some more. At three years old, that was all I could do. I suppose that ear
piercing was an omen of the pattern of my early life: hurt and abuse often inflicted by my mother, and me
unable to do anything about it. I became an unread paper back in my mother’s hands: she was bending me
backward as if she were interested in the pages of my life, but line after line went unread.

8. My preface, my forward, my contents, each chapter were all but mere shadows in her hand; jumbled
messages of oddly constructed paragraphs of meaninglessness. She could not decipher the words of the script.
They were left dangling on the pages of chance. I didn’t understand why she did not respond to the many times
I reached for her. My love that I offered unconditionally, the smile upon my face that lit whatever room she
entered, the interest I took in her walk; her smell, the sound of her voice, even her slap and the pain that it
caused on the side of my face. I was attentive to every line that she wrote, but my life was not translated. The
late nights I stayed awake listening for her keys to jingle in the door, or to hear her cowboy boots scrape
across the floor; the noise I made, the tears I cried and the tears I carried in my heart; the trouble I started, the
fights I had, the mistakes I made; nothing I did seemed to matter. My emotional state went undetected, like an
unsolved mystery.

9. Book Reviews
The book is a must read for anyone who has lost their way. It
is both inspiring and heart warming and will certainly give
To book hope to the hopeless, letting them know whatever vices holds
Denise Jones for your them captive, nothing is too small or too great (If they desire
next event or for to be free they can) and nothing is IMPOSSIBLE!!!
interviews e-mail
Traneisha Jones, - Linda P. Williams– Chicago, IL
T. Jones PR & Marketing
at
tee-jones@hotmail.com I recommend this story to those who are looking for a second
or call chance at life.
(225)235-6706.
- Teresa Beasley– Indianapolis, IN
An amazing story - I would recommend it to anyone to read.
- Love Books, Location unknown
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Appearances & Interviews
Cornell Intervention Center
N’Digo Magapaper Hay Market Treatment Facility
Harvest Christian Show Grace House Recovery Home for Women
Mahogany Life Magazine The Genesis House
Street Wise Magazine The Bonaventure House
CAN TV, Taking it to the Street Chicago House for HIV
CAN TV, Information Now Roseland Residential Treatment Center
The Streets Don’t Love You Back Radio Show– Florida Drug Treatment House
Arizona
Wings of Hope Prison Ministry
WVOL– 1470 AM- Nashville, TN
Mustard Seed Homeless Shelter
The Kankakee Daily Journal
Olive Branch Homeless Shelter
Joliet Daily Journal
Salvation Army Homeless Shelter
Interview with Nate Rodgers
HIV Recovery Center–
The Black Women’s Expo, 2010 Belize, Central America
Why Girl’s Cry?- Esther House Chicago County Jail