AVAILABLE NOW!
My best-selling book, Up from the Water, is now available on Amazon in both hardcover and Kindle editions. In this book, you will meet a little girl with big dreams who was bound and determined to do it all on her own. A little girl on a grown-up journey who found redemption, completion, and a new heart along the way.
Writing Up from the Water has been an unexpected privilege along an unlikely journey. I’ve done my best to write this book with the heart of a servant. If you find something in this book that speaks to you, I’d love to hear about it. I would love to know what touched you. I’d love to hear where you are in your own journey through the water. And if you’re feeling like you could use a hand to help you to fully immerse and then rise up from the water, I would be honored to lend you my hand, in love. I invite you to share your comments below or to reach out and connect.
Send me the invitation to the Up from the Water launch party!
At age 17, I awoke in wreckage on the side of the road to the overwhelming reality that a car accident had stolen away both my first love and my identity. This book is the story of a forty-year journey of a broken girl searching for a new identity – first in music, then in ministry, then through a career in law and business – before finally arriving at the realization that my identity does not revolve around what I do, whom I admire, or whom the rest of the world thinks I should be. Identity is so much more than all of those things!
In writing Up from the Water, I came to understand that most of us tend to live our lives on the surface level, especially in a modern, Western culture that is dominated by social media. While we project a public façade of having it all together, most of us privately sojourn through life feeling hopelessly lost. Through weathering life’s storms, we’ve been dismasted, our sails have been shredded, our rudders have been broken, we’re taking on water, and we find ourselves adrift, tossed about at the mercy of wherever the currents and prevailing winds take us. It is only when we are willing and brave enough to cut the tether to our broken boats, jump overboard, and dive fully beneath the surface, leaving behind all of the lies that we’ve been told and the lies that we’ve told ourselves about ourselves, that we can emerge above the water and rise into the identity of who each of us is uniquely called to be.
This is the story of one woman’s journey. This is the story of my journey into and up from the water.
We all have our own unique story. What’s yours?
YOUR FREE GIFT
If you’ve read the book, you know about the little slip of paper that I found in my mother’s wallet. If you’d like to have a little card with these same words for your own wallet, I’m happy to mail one to you!
Such an eloquent writer. Easy to comprehend the beauty of all you have said. Throughly looking forward to reading more. Thanks to your trials and commitments you are so sweet and thoughtful in wanting to give back.
Thank you, Sheila!
So excited! Pre-ordered & cannot wait!
Thank you so much, Nanci!
I’m so excited to order this book and take it as I travel abroad
Thank you, Maggie! I’ll be excited to hear about your travels.
Hi Tanya,
I am Laurie’s mother-in-law. I’ve heard so much good about you and I asked her what she wanted for Christmas and she said she wanted a copy of your book. So I’d like to order one and have it sent to her if possible for Christmas. Thank you.
Hi Donna, what a thoughtful gesture! You can order the book on Amazon and input Laurie’s address as the shipping address. Click HERE to order.
You are so full of surprises and I can hardly wait to read your book.
Thank you, Christine!
Tanya Simpson has the heart of a servant and a willingness to come alongside others, actively listen and walk hand in hand on the path created for them. I am confident in knowing those who read this book with an open heart and open mind will be blessed by it. Thank you, Tanya for sharing your journey and for extending your reach to others so they may find their way to their own unique calling. What a comfort to know it doesn’t have to be done alone, where one might stumble in the dark aimlessly trying to find their way, but with another who has found and taken the path less traveled, but so worth it!
I’m so humbled by this, Stefanie. My hope is that there is a little something in this book for everyone – likely different things for different people.
I am so beyond excited to receive and read this book not only because I just know that it will be an absolutely amazing read but because it will help me get to know Miss Tanya on such a deeper level and I already cherish your friendship as it is or has begun! I’m so excited for you. I I can just see you got moving in your life! And in your testimony!
Thank you, Ashley! Everyone’s journey is different, and mine – like many – has been quite a ride. I’d love to hear what resonates with you and with anyone who reads it. We are so much stronger when we come alongside one another.
I can’t wait to read it!!! I love you and am so excited for you!!
Thank you, Jody!
Tanya you are such a gifted writer !! Just by reading the synopsis I can tell that I will enjoy big time the book that I pre-ordered. I would love for you to be a mentor in my writing journey.
Thank you for the kind words, Martha! I’m happy to help in any way I can.
Hi Tanya,
A very enjoyable read. Thank you for allowing me to see where and why you are and have been.
May 2025 bring everything you desire
Thank you, Dave! It was an honor to work alonside you as you mentored me in my early years. I wish you all the best this year as well!
Congratulations on your book!
Best Seller Book Award can’t wait to read your book.!