The following is a guest post by Donna Urbikas, author of My Sister’s Mother: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Stalin’s Siberia. A couple of years ago I took myself on a cross-country tour of writers’ conferences where I could pitch my newly finished manuscript, My Sister’s Mother: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Stalin’s Siberia. Reception was great except that I am not famous, so who would care? Fortunately, the…
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Breaking the Silence by Maria Nieto
The following is a guest post by Maria Nieto, author of Breaking the Silence. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. My name is Maria Nieto, and people have been questioning why, at the age of 85, I wrote a book called Breaking the Silence. It is a book describing the pain and the horrifying days of a small…
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The Milestone Tapes by Ashley Mackler-Paternostro
Jenna Chamberland has breast cancer, and she is dying. She is trying to make the most of her time left with her husband, Gabe, and their 6-year-old daughter, Mia. She also decides to reach out to her estranged sister, Sophia, before it’s too late. In order to be part of her daughter’s life, Jenna records 10 tapes about the future big events in her girl’s existence. And while she talks about…