Category: memoir

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 […]

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 […]

Interview with Linda Chadwick, Author of On The Road

  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 […]

#NewRelease – Dwell Time by Rosa Lowinger #nonfiction #memoir #cuba

    Synopsis   Dwell Time is a term that measures the amount of time something takes to happen – immigrants waiting at a border, human eyes on a website, the minutes people wait in an airport, and, in art conservation, the time it takes for a chemical to react with a material. Renowned art conservator Rosa Lowinger spent a difficult […]

Review & Excerpt – Travels with Maurice by Gary Orleck @GOrleck #memoir

    Synopsis   Find out how I, a nobody from the state of Rhode Island, was invited to travel Europe with the son of the richest man in the world at the time. We drove 19,965 miles through 12 different European countries in 10 weeks. We dined with Kings and Queens in Denmark, we […]

Excerpt – Leaving by Kanchan Bhaskar @AuthorKanchanB #newrelease #memoir

    Synopsis   Raised by two loving parents in New Delhi, India, Kanchan Bhaskar has always been taught that marriage means companionship, tenderness, and mutual respect—so when she enters into an arranged marriage, this is the kind of partnership she anticipates with her new, seemingly wonderful, husband. But after they marry, she quickly discovers that his warmth […]