From Multi Award-Winning Author
Marcia Regina Cook
Hanging
by a Thread
When everything feels like it's unraveling,
your story isn't over.
There are moments when strength doesn't look like having everything together.
Sometimes strength is simply holding on.
Hanging by a Thread is Marcia Regina Cook's upcoming exploration of courage, hope, resilience, and what it means to keep moving when life brings you closer to the edge than you ever expected to be.
Coming 2027 · Kickstarter Campaign Live Now
An Award-Winning Book
Hanging by a Thread by Marcia Regina Cook has received recognition from the following book award.
Booky Awards
Winner, Best Subculture Portrait
The Book
What Do You Do When Holding On Is the Bravest Thing You Can Do?
Life doesn't always give us time to prepare.
Sometimes circumstances change.
Plans unravel.
Certainty disappears.
And the future we thought we understood suddenly looks very different.
Hanging by a Thread speaks to those moments.
It is about discovering that courage is not always loud, dramatic, or fearless.
Sometimes courage is getting through today.
Sometimes it is asking for help.
Sometimes it is choosing hope when hope feels unreasonable.
And sometimes it is realizing that the thread you're holding may be stronger than you think.
Themes
What the Book Explores
When Life Changes
Finding your footing when circumstances no longer resemble the life you expected.
The Courage to Hold On
Understanding that perseverance itself can be an act of tremendous courage.
The Strength to Let Go
Recognizing when moving forward requires releasing what can no longer come with you.
Choosing Hope
Finding possibility even when you cannot yet see the entire path ahead.
Your Story Is Not Over
Remembering that a difficult chapter is not necessarily the final chapter.
Marcia's Books
Two Books. One Evolving Conversation.
Dare to Dream With Eyes Wide Open challenges us to recognize our strength, reclaim responsibility for our direction, and believe that possibility still exists.
Hanging by a Thread goes somewhere different.
It asks what happens when that courage is tested.
When circumstances become uncertain.
When strength feels exhausted.
When moving forward means holding on one moment at a time.
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Dare to Dream
Hanging by a Thread
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Coming 2027
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“What if the thread you are hanging by is the same thread that has always been holding you?”
— Marcia Regina Cook
You may be hanging by a thread.
But you're still here.
And your story is not over.
Hanging by a Thread
An upcoming book by Marcia Regina Cook