Synopsis What if you came home one day and found your husband dead in his favorite chair? This grief memoir explores the author’s experience of the unexpected death of her husband from sudden cardiac arrest a mere three months after his doctors had pronounced him hale and healthy. The author shares her experiences […]
Category: memoir
New Release & Excerpt – Immersion by Linda Murphy Marshall
Synopsis Fans of the self-discovering journeys in Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Andrew McCarthy’s The Longest Way Home will love diving into linguist Linda Murphy Marshall’s adventure-filled international journey as she overcomes her past to find her place in the world—all over the world. Immersion is a memoir that takes the reader on a captivating emotional and physical journey […]
Book Blitz & Giveaway – The Pink Dress by Jane Little Botkin
THE PINK DRESS: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen By Jane Little Botkin Memoir Publisher: She Writes Press Pages: 304 Publication Date: 9/10/24 Synopsis Growing up in West Texas, Jane Little Botkin didn’t have designs on becoming a beauty queen. But not long after joining a pageant on a whim in […]
Guest Post – braveing the way by Laurel C. Fox
Synopsis When Laurel’s fourteen-year-old daughter experiences a life-altering event, her entire world is upended overnight. Faced with her child’s precarious fight to survive and the daunting road of rehabilitation ahead, Laurel discovers fountains of courage and devotion she didn’t know she possessed. Despite the hardships and her own private grief, Laurel tackles each […]
Synopsis And She Was Never the Same Again is about you. It is about your family and your friends, everyone you’ve ever met, and all the strangers you have yet to meet. It takes you on a journey of gains and losses that stretch generations, cultures, identities, and decades of time. It awakens […]
Spotlight – Elk Love by Lynne Spriggs O’Connor
Synopsis Having spent ten summers on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation near Glacier National Park, part of her doctoral fieldwork for a PhD in Native American Art History, forty-two-year-old Lynne Spriggs thinks of Montana as her healing place. When she moves to “Big Sky Country” from the East Coast in a quest to reset her […]
Guest Post & #Giveaway – Raising Jess by Vickie Rubin
Synopsis Raising Jess: A Story of Hope is the powerful story of one family’s survival when faced with adversity. Written with compassion, honesty, and humor, it tells of a family changed forever by the birth of a child with a rare chromosome deletion and their courageous decision to choose hope. Facing the challenges […]
Synopsis In an era defined by neon lights, cassette tapes, and the birth of grunge, the music scene of the 80’s was more than just a trend-it was a revolution. This book whisks readers away to a time when music pulsed through the streets, clubs echoed with electric rhythms, and every song told a […]
Excerpt – This Familiar Heart by Babette Hale
THIS FAMILIAR HEART: AN IMPROBABLE LOVE STORY by Babette Fraser Hale Memoir / Relationships / Aging / Grief Publisher: Winedale Publishing Date of Publication: April 2, 2024 Number of Pages: 312 pages In this intimate rendering of a relationship, we learn how deceptive surface […]
Excerpt – Bird’s Eye View by Jan Capps
Synopsis When Jan moves to Guatemala with her young daughter to run a medical clinic on the heels of her divorce, she knows the experience will be difficult and life-changing. But she doesn’t anticipate all the ways she will change. To make sense of her professional, personal, and parenting turmoil in a country […]