Award-winning Author And Ghostwriter

Barb Allen’s first book, Front Toward Enemy, began as a journal for her four children to read one day. As the capital court-martial progressed and Barb learned the shocking details surrounding her husband’s murder, she realized the truth would not be told in court. Articles she wrote on the trial earned her a NYS Press Association Award, and her journal became an award-winning book that was optioned for film.

How to Woo a Widow is Barb’s second book. This romantic fiction novel is packed with intense highs and lows, just enough humor to blend laughter with the tears, and perfectly captures the blend of blessings mixed in with grief. It is the chick-flick ready for a screenplay!

Barb’s third book is What Not to Wear to a Murder Trial, and other tips tragedy taught me. As its title suggests, this signature book is written in a lighter tone that is so engaging, the reader sweeps right into its powerful lessons and inspirational insight before they even realize it. Strongly endorsed by powerhouses in their own rights, this book holds nuggets of wisdom for anyone facing adversity.

When Barb isn’t busy writing her own books, she opens her calendar up for select ghostwriting clients. She specializes in memoirs and loves helping her clients turn their stories into their signature books.

What Not To Wear To A Murder Trial: And Other Tips Tragedy Taught Me​

With a Foreword by Rob O’neill, and Highly Endorsed by Other Amazing Americans Like Taya Kyle and Bedros Keuilian, This Book Lives Up to Its Powerful Backing.s, Love, and Patriotism

Barb Allen What not to wear to a murder trial

Control is an illusion. That lesson is on the house- you don’t even have to buy the book for it. Because more than book sales I care about sharing the lessons I have lived and learned.

The key is, knowing what you can and cannot control, and then learning how to maximize that power. The other side of that key is learning how to turn things you are powerless to control into opportunities instead of excuses.

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This book could also easily be titled: How not to be a little bitch!

Ray “Cash” Care

Friend, I’ve been to hell and back to learn the lessons in this book. There are few humiliations I have not suffered, dignities I have not surrendered, no pride I have not allowed to damage me, and no betrayal I have not allowed to drop me.

All of that pretty much sucked for me, but it also led me to where I am today. It even brought moments of stunning beauty, joy, and gratitude only those who’ve lived in darkness, pain, and hopelessness can appreciate.

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Barb nails the art of perfecting imperfection in this raw, sometimes sarcastic, and on-point guide to crushing adversity

Taya Kyle

If you feel trapped under the weight of pain, grief, trauma, and hopelessness, there is something in this book that will help you. If you are easily offended, commit to overcoming that before you read this book, or just put it down and step away – you’re not ready for me yet.

The lessons here aren’t all mine, by the way. I’m blessed to know hundreds of amazing people and to have interviewed many of those people. Some of their lessons are in this book, too.

They believe in me, and I believe in you too. Let’s do this.


Front Toward Enemy

Barbara Allens’s True Story On A Slain Soldier’s Widow Details Her Husband’s Murder And How Military Courts Allowed the Killer To Escape Justice.

How To Woo A Widow

Fate May Have Had Its Way With the Hamilton Sisters, but Their Destinies Are Still Up for Grabs.