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When Kevin John White, a former addict who spent many years of his life homeless, turned to his Christian faith, he found out he had a talent to tell his story through writing.<\/p>\n

Steve and Julie Hill met Kevin while he was in and out of Huntsville Hospital, where Steve works as a doctor. As Kevin was often admitted to the hospital for alcohol withdrawal seizures, Steve and Kevin formed a significant bond.<\/p>\n

\u201cSteve asked him if he had a faith to draw strength from and Kevin said that he was a Christian,\u201d said Julie. \u201cHe mentioned that his dad was a Christian writer, and Steve figured out that his dad was Dr. John White, a well-known and respected author.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once Kevin was discharged from the hospital, he was in need of a safe place to live.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy husband kept asking God, \u2018Who would take him?\u2019 Steve then pictured John White in heaven asking Steve, \u2018Would you take him?\u2019 That was when we knew this is something that God wanted us to do,\u201d said Julie.<\/p>\n

\u201cKevin came to live with us until we could get him into a treatment centre,\u201d she added. \u201cDuring that time many people from our church (St. Andrews Presbyterian) were involved in supporting us and him. For two weeks people took two-hour shifts during the day to stay at our house so I could carry on with our farm and kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Kevin spent seven months in a rehabilitation centre, the facilitators asked him to write in a daily journal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only reason I started writing was because I was forced to. I had never written anything more than my name, and answered some questions for a couple of AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) until Dancing on a Razor<\/em>,\u201d said Kevin. \u201cI was in my sixteenth treatment centre and if I didn’t journal every day they were going to kick me out. They didn’t care what I wrote about, as long as it was about myself. At 16 I’d probably overdosed more times than most 50-year-old heroin addicts. There were all these miracles that had happened, and I wanted to find out why they happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kevin describes his manuscript Dancing on a Razor<\/em> as \u201ca collection of stories about a man who had completely lost all hope\u2015and what happened inside that man\u2019s heart as he wrote about some unusual occurrences in his life. A man’s own story brought him to his knees as he saw the many great kindnesses, incredible miracles and mercies that God just poured out and over.\u201d<\/p>\n

After he returned to Huntsville, Kevin showed Julie parts of his journal and she said, “Kevin, this is really good! We need to get this published!\u201d<\/p>\n

This was when Julie became Kevin\u2019s literary agent and editor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had no idea how to make that happen,\u201d said Julie, \u201cbut one step at a time God opened the doors for me to meet key people and get the book from squiggly writing on notebook paper to a computer and then polished up for a publisher to read.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Kevin\u2019s handwriting was quite hard to read, Julie advised Kevin to try a different way to get his words onto a computer.<\/p>\n

\u201cKevin got a cell phone for the first time in his life and learned how to speak into the phone using voice to text. He did that with the whole book, which is over 230 pages! Then from there I edited it,\u201d said Julie.<\/p>\n

After appropriate edits and alterations were made to the book, Julie reached out to a connection she had in the Christian literary world, Larry Willard.<\/p>\n

\u201cLarry had been in a major head-on collision and had been in the ICU for months. He had to learn how to walk and even talk again. I had no idea how he was doing or if he was even still publishing but I wrote him an email and he had recovered enough to be back in business. Larry was a huge fan of Kevin’s dad, John White, and was interested in the book.\u201d<\/p>\n

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From there began a lengthy process of getting the book proposal ready, which included research of the market, potential endorsers and their contacts as well as chapter summaries.<\/p>\n

Julie got copies of the book made in Huntsville and sent it to 12 people across the country, asking them to read and endorse the book. Each person sent in their endorsements in support of Kevin\u2019s book.<\/p>\n

Larry then suggested that Kevin enter his book in the Best New Canadian Manuscript Contest, held by The Word Guild, a Christian community of writers, editors, speakers, publishers, booksellers, and librarians. Although he entered last year and didn\u2019t place, he gave it another try again this year and won.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod is this book. Without Him there is no book and I would be a long-forgotten statistic,\u201d said Kevin.<\/p>\n

Kevin never thought he would get any recognition for Dancing on a Razor<\/em>, let alone win the Word Guild\u2019s Best New Canadian Manuscript contest.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the first time in my life I began to feel a deep sense of responsibility for the gifts I had been given,\u201d said Kevin. \u201cI saw the tremendous opportunity I had been so generously, and quite unexpectedly, given. Now I\u2019m almost always on the verge of tears at the thought of being able to share my story with so many people. All of the heartache, pain, and struggle has lead me to such incredible joy, freedom, and grace which God has so powerfully poured all over my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The contest award gala was a black-tie event at Roma\u2019s Hospitality Centre in Mississauga.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they announced that he was the winner and he walked up to the stage, I was just so happy for him!\u201d said Julie. \u201cKevin asked Steve and I to stand and he honoured and thanked us and God for helping him, and on top of that he asked me to come up to the stage and receive the award with him! I was in tears and I stood beside him as he gave his speech.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the award winner, Kevin\u2019s book will be published and promoted by Castle Quay Books Canada, all expenses paid.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe next steps will be time consuming for us both as the book will go through three different editors with Castle Quay, and we will have to work together to make alterations with them,\u201d said Julie. \u201cWe also are involved in book cover design, photographs, etc. It will hopefully be ready by spring of 2019. \u201c<\/p>\n

Kevin says that this experience has changed his life forever and he doesn\u2019t want to stop writing anytime soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t wait to write more books,\u201d said Kevin. \u201cAll those years I spent living homeless I was being taught. God never stopped talking to me, or doing amazing things, sometimes he just wants to play with me\u2014he can be cotton-pickin’ hilarious\u2014but all of it had a purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n

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