As a child Ms. Garman grew up in a small town in Colorado. Later, her family moved to a small ranch outside of town. This was a big change for Donetta as she was, as you will read in her book, afraid of everything. That included farm animals!
Ms. Garman has lived in Colorado, Texas and Missouri. Jobs have included waiting tables, doing dishes, babysitting, working in a feed lot, cooking, stuffing brochures, selling real estate and working in an office for a division of Forbes Magazine, illustrating for other authors, free lance writing, newspaper reporting, newspaper ad layout and modelling. Most recently she owned several retail businesses and a tea room. Now she has turned her attention to helping others establish businesses, selling real estate, writing, church activities (she is a pastor's wife), antique selling and internet sales.
Donetta has been published in Kansas City Magazine, The Missouri Otter, The Osage Chigger, The Clinton Daily Democrat, Sedalia Magazine, Catch On to Clinton Magazine and The St. Clair County Courier. She wrote several chapters that were included in the book Red Necht Livin and she wrote the biography for the back of a book written by her husband, Proud to be Red Necht. She also authored several promotional articles to promote the small town she lives in now, Osceola, Missouri.
She resides in Osceola, Missouri, with her husband of twenty one years, Gar Garman (pastor of a rural Baptist church) on an idyllic spot in the Ozark foothills. She has a son, Jeremy and his wife Crystal in the Boston, Massachusetts area and a daughter, Sheridan, in Arizona. She also has two step-children, Jacquie Boisen of Grain Valley, Missouri and Gary Garman of the Denver, Colorado area.
Title: The Length of a Dream
Author: Donetta Garman
ISBN # 978-0557063000
Historical Fiction
"The Length of a Dream" is an inspirational historical novel set in the time period right after the end of the civil war. The story takes place in a small frontier town in Colorado. When a man named Joshua rides into the little western town of Uptop and meets Hannah Fain Mullins, the woman at the well, the community is in for a big change. Meanwhile, Hannah's husband, Flint, has been captured by Indians and as he makes his way home and survives many adventures, he rediscovers his faith in God. Follow the lives of these frontier men and women as they fight to survive the harsh realities of the west, while exploring the length of their dreams.
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Title: Growing Up Ugly
Author: Donetta Garman
ISBN #978-1604627549
Memoir
I fantasized about people loving me and standing in line to be my friend. I waited to become a swan. Growing Up Ugly is a moving memoir about coming of age and realizing the beauty in this life we are all searching for is within our grasp. Join author Donetta Garman as she drifts in and out of consciousness after suffering a stroke and recalls some of the events in her unusual but loving childhood. After a traumatic birth, Donetta was left homely, clumsy, and awkward. Growing up, she learned to cope with being ugly by laughing at herself and trying to help hold the family together. While her family climate was dysfunctional, the cohesiveness of it was undeniable, and Garmans story is infused with the intense love and resilience of a peculiar but fiercely devoted family. With the help of her family, children, husband, friends, and God, Donetta finds that beauty really is only skin deep and there is a swan just waiting to escape in all of us.
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