Month: February 2017

A True WWII Adventure

Action/Adventure, Book Review, Challenges, Family, Germany, Historical Fiction, History, Reading, war children, WWII / By

I’m thrilled to share with you the release of 47 DAYS: The True Story of Two Teen Boys Defying Hitler’s Reich. 47 DAYS is a 13,000-word novelette, an excerpt from the upcoming full-length novel, SURVIVING THE FATHERLAND. Based on my father’s experience as a youth in World War II, the story takes us into the …

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Fifteen Years in the Making

Action/Adventure, Book Review, Challenges, Family, Germany, Historical Fiction, History, Reading, Solingen, Two Families, war children, Writing, WWII / By

In 2002 I recorded my parents’ stories about their experiences during WWII. By 2009 these stories had turned into a novel. Not a good one because it was my first, but a record of eyewitness testimony. Though I worked with an editor and revised, the story needed work. It wasn’t ready because I wasn’t ready. …

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