I’m super excited to announce that my American Civil War novel, ‘Everything We Lose,’ will be produced as an audiobook. I’m even more excited that Alan Taylor, a professional audiobook narrator and voiceover artist, has agreed to tell the story. I asked for auditions via ACX and received many amazing narration samples. However, Alan’s voice […]
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Reading/presentation of ‘Surviving the Fatherland‘ at VHS Solingen on April 19, 2018 at 19:00. The story is based on my parents growing up during WWII in Solingen. I’ll be sharing selected passages from the book that relate to certain occurrences in the war in general and in Solingen in particular. Please stay tuned for future
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***New Release This Week*** Get your copy of ‘Everything we Lose’ now! Visiting the German-German Border Museum The other weekend while visiting friends, we took a road trip to the former east-west boarder between Hessia (west) and Thuringia (east). Near Bad Sooden Allendorf, right on the original border, lies the first border museum of Germany,
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Well, my friends, it’s been a busy month. Aside from attempting to tame the German bureaucracy or what Germans call the “Amtsschimmel,” I’ve been working hard on prepping for the publication of my Civil War novel. Broken Journey: A Civil War Adventure is in editing which means I’m working on wording for the back cover
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“This novel is fast-paced and emotively worded and features a great selection of characters, flawed and poignantly three-dimensional.” New review (print version) from the Historical Novel Society I’m excited to announce that the audiobook version of ‘Surviving the Fatherland,’ narrated by Naomi Jacobson, is now available on Amazon, Audible and iTunes. I will also work on
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Well, it’s been a busy month. Naomi, the narrator of the upcoming audiobook, Surviving the Fatherland, jumped right in and began recording. Via ACX I could listen to each chapter to check for pronunciation, potential errors, etc. Well, Naomi is a pro and so I didn’t find much to flag. The occasional German word threw
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Follow my Journey to Publish ‘Surviving the Fatherland’ as an Audiobook It makes perfect sense that readers have different tastes, not only in books and genres, but also in the formats they prefer. I’d been reading a lot of publishing advice that urges authors to offer audiobooks because more and more readers love to ‘read’
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***More than 10,000 copies sold since March 15, 2017*** ***#1 Amazon Bestseller in German Historical Fiction*** I’m humbled and excited to announce… FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Annette Oppenlander/812.391.6310/Annette.oppenlander@yahoo.com 11th ANNUAL NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE® AWARDS ANNOUNCED Local Author receives national recognition from the 11th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards! Los Angeles: — The 11th Annual National
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I’m very happy to announce that ‘Surviving the Fatherland’ received a 5-star rating and coveted ‘Crowned Heart Review’ from InD’tale Magazine. Here is what they said: Lilly and Gunter are seven and twelve when WWII begins. In this remarkable true story, these children are faced with the atrocities of war and daily survival, yet somehow,
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Much has happened in the few weeks since releasing ‘Surviving the Fatherland.’ Here is a list: Books Go Social (BGS), a large writing and reading community, gave ‘Surviving the Fatherland’ its Gold Quality Seal of Approval. Each seal is numbered individually to avoid unauthorized use. For the past two weeks or so, ‘Surviving the Fatherland’
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