The Picked Lock by Laura DuBois to Launch October 2026 from Publish Your Purpose
Hartford, CT, October 26, 2026 --(PR.com)-- Career coach, speaker, and author Laura DuBois will launch her debut memoir, The Picked Lock (Publish Your Purpose, 2026, ISBNs 979-8-88797-259-6, 979-8-88797-258-9, 979-8-88797-260-2) in October 2026.
She knew how to keep secrets. She had been learning since childhood.
Growing up in a home steeped in silence, Laura DuBois absorbed the family rule early: what happens in the house stays in the house. You carry it alone. You don't ask for help. By the time she understood what that training had cost her, she had already endured damaging relationships, a marriage that gradually eroded her sense of reality, and decades of carrying burdens that were never meant to be carried alone.
The Picked Lock: Everything That Couldn’t Be Said and Everything That Finally Was is a memoir about what silence does to a life, how it is passed down through generations, how it is enforced, and what it finally takes to break free from it. With unflinching honesty and remarkable vulnerability, DuBois explores the invisible patterns we inherit and the choices we make without realizing how deeply they are shaped by our past. It is a story about surviving while slowly disappearing, about the emotional cost of always being the strong one, and about learning that love is not supposed to feel like turbulence.
At its heart, the book is also about writing. For years, journals became a safe place to record experiences that could not be spoken aloud. When those private words were later used as weapons, another painful chapter began. Yet some words survived anyway, hidden, cryptic, and resilient, proving that there are parts of ourselves that cannot be erased no matter how determined someone may be to silence them.
Through deeply personal storytelling, The Picked Lock examines the courage required to face difficult truths, reclaim personal agency, and rebuild a life on one's own terms. It is ultimately the story of a woman who spent forty years finding her voice and what happened when she finally chose to use it.
“With unflinching honesty, Laura lays bare the painful truths she carried in silence…refusing to soften the hard edges of her experience, and in so doing gives every woman who has ever swallowed her truth the strength to finally speak,” says Elisa Steele, Board Director. Early readers praise the memoir for its emotional depth, honesty, and message of hope, noting its ability to resonate with anyone who has ever felt trapped by silence, self-doubt, or circumstances beyond their control. The Picked Lock is a testament to resilience, healing, and the transformational power of speaking the truth.
Get your copy of The Picked Lock at your favorite place to buy books, available October 26, wherever books are sold.
About the Author: Laura DuBois is a career coach who guides mission-driven professionals through purposeful pivots while training the next generation of coaches, drawing on the kind of hard-won wisdom that only comes from rebuilding your life from the ground up. She is the mother of two grown children and lives in New England with her husband. Learn more about Laura at headcoachlaura.com.
About PYP: Publish Your Purpose is a certified B Corporation™ and hybrid publisher for purpose-driven authors who believe their books can create change. We support authors who are using their stories, expertise, and lived experience to shift conversations, challenge the status quo, and contribute to something bigger than themselves.
For more information about Publish Your Purpose visit https://PublishYourPurpose.com/
Publication Date: October 2026, 6" x 9", hardcover, paperback, eBook and audiobook.
$19.99 paperback, ISBN 979-8-88797-258-9
$34.99 hardcover, ISBN 979-8-88797-259-6
$9.99 eBook, ISBN 979-8-88797-260-2
She knew how to keep secrets. She had been learning since childhood.
Growing up in a home steeped in silence, Laura DuBois absorbed the family rule early: what happens in the house stays in the house. You carry it alone. You don't ask for help. By the time she understood what that training had cost her, she had already endured damaging relationships, a marriage that gradually eroded her sense of reality, and decades of carrying burdens that were never meant to be carried alone.
The Picked Lock: Everything That Couldn’t Be Said and Everything That Finally Was is a memoir about what silence does to a life, how it is passed down through generations, how it is enforced, and what it finally takes to break free from it. With unflinching honesty and remarkable vulnerability, DuBois explores the invisible patterns we inherit and the choices we make without realizing how deeply they are shaped by our past. It is a story about surviving while slowly disappearing, about the emotional cost of always being the strong one, and about learning that love is not supposed to feel like turbulence.
At its heart, the book is also about writing. For years, journals became a safe place to record experiences that could not be spoken aloud. When those private words were later used as weapons, another painful chapter began. Yet some words survived anyway, hidden, cryptic, and resilient, proving that there are parts of ourselves that cannot be erased no matter how determined someone may be to silence them.
Through deeply personal storytelling, The Picked Lock examines the courage required to face difficult truths, reclaim personal agency, and rebuild a life on one's own terms. It is ultimately the story of a woman who spent forty years finding her voice and what happened when she finally chose to use it.
“With unflinching honesty, Laura lays bare the painful truths she carried in silence…refusing to soften the hard edges of her experience, and in so doing gives every woman who has ever swallowed her truth the strength to finally speak,” says Elisa Steele, Board Director. Early readers praise the memoir for its emotional depth, honesty, and message of hope, noting its ability to resonate with anyone who has ever felt trapped by silence, self-doubt, or circumstances beyond their control. The Picked Lock is a testament to resilience, healing, and the transformational power of speaking the truth.
Get your copy of The Picked Lock at your favorite place to buy books, available October 26, wherever books are sold.
About the Author: Laura DuBois is a career coach who guides mission-driven professionals through purposeful pivots while training the next generation of coaches, drawing on the kind of hard-won wisdom that only comes from rebuilding your life from the ground up. She is the mother of two grown children and lives in New England with her husband. Learn more about Laura at headcoachlaura.com.
About PYP: Publish Your Purpose is a certified B Corporation™ and hybrid publisher for purpose-driven authors who believe their books can create change. We support authors who are using their stories, expertise, and lived experience to shift conversations, challenge the status quo, and contribute to something bigger than themselves.
For more information about Publish Your Purpose visit https://PublishYourPurpose.com/
Publication Date: October 2026, 6" x 9", hardcover, paperback, eBook and audiobook.
$19.99 paperback, ISBN 979-8-88797-258-9
$34.99 hardcover, ISBN 979-8-88797-259-6
$9.99 eBook, ISBN 979-8-88797-260-2
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