The Maddoux Collective

Tracy
Maddoux

Author · The Maddoux Collective

Writing that doesn't flinch. From picture books that honor big feelings to poetry about love that didn't come back, honest words for the people who need them most.

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Four projects.
One voice.

Everything under The Maddoux Collective comes from the same place, a conviction that honest words, honestly told, find the people who need them. Here's what's on the shelf and what's still becoming.

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For Young Readers

Children's Books

Picture books that take kids seriously, stories about big feelings, hard days, and the small brave choices that matter. Because children deserve honesty too.

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Guided Journaling Series

The Grounded Daily

A series of journals built around honest prompts, no toxic positivity, no performance. Just questions worth sitting with, and space to actually answer them.

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Poetry & Prose

The Unrequited
Love Project

An unflinching collection about love that didn't land where it was aimed. The longing, the silence, the slow work of letting go. For anyone who's loved more than they were loved back.

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Memoir · In Progress

Autobiography

The full story, in progress. The thread connecting the growing up, the falling apart, and the long work of building back. Coming when it's ready.

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Tracy Maddoux

About Tracy

The writer behind
the collective

Tracy Maddoux is a Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex-based author who writes because pretending things don't hurt is exhausting, and because somewhere out there, someone needs to know they're not alone in it.

Her work spans picture books, guided journals, poetry, and a memoir in progress, each rooted in the same conviction: words are most powerful when they refuse to look away.

The Maddoux Collective is her creative home for all of it.

"I don't write to perform strength. I write to tell the truth about what it actually costs to be human, and what it takes to keep going anyway."

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Vol. 1, Anchoring

"What is one thing you've been carrying that was never yours to carry?"

Vol. 2, Rebuilding

"Describe who you were before the thing that changed you. How much of that person is still here?"

Vol. 3, Becoming

"What does 'enough' look like for you, not for anyone else, just you?"

Featured Series

The Grounded
Daily Series

Some days you just need something to hold onto. The Grounded Daily is a journaling series built around honest prompts, no pressure to perform wellness, no hollow affirmations.

Just questions worth sitting with, and space to actually answer them. Each volume focuses on a different season of life: anchoring, rebuilding, becoming.

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Poetry & Prose

The Unrequited
Love Project

Not every love story ends where you hoped it would. But this collection isn't just about the other person, it's about what happens to you in the waiting. The slow drift away from yourself, and the harder work of finding your way back.

Raw, specific, and stubbornly human. For anyone who has ever loved so hard they lost themselves in it, and is ready to come back.

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"Your lifelong unrequited love has always been yourself."

Tracy Maddoux

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