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The Sunflower House, The Writing Process, Uncategorized, Writing Inspiration

A Playlist for The Sunflower House

November 24, 2024

I used dozens of pieces of music to write The Sunflower House, since music is a huge part of my creative process. Music always get the words flowing because it helps me get into character.

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The Sunflower House, The Writing Process

How U.S. Eugenics Policies and Racial Laws Inspired Adolf Hitler

November 11, 2024

The dream of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed ‘master race’ didn’t originate with Adolf Hitler. This idea was implemented in the United States decades before Hitler rose to power by American eugenicists, who sterilized tens of thousands of Americans through the 1970s, barred the marriage of […]

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Publication, The Sunflower House

Finding Light in the Darkness

October 31, 2024

I’ve been thinking about light and dark this week, thanks to my chat with John Charles of The Poisoned Pen bookstore. John found The Sunflower House to be a hopeful book. I was glad to hear it, because I struggled to find hope during my research.

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Publication, The Sunflower House, Writing Inspiration

Writing About Hope

August 11, 2024

I didn’t set out to write about hope, not consciously. Yet early reviewers of The Sunflower House call it a hopeful book. As it turns out, the reason why hits really close to home. (This one’s for you, mom. ❤️)

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The Editing Process, The Sunflower House, The Writing Process, Uncategorized, Writing Inspiration

What’s Your Muse?

August 22, 2023

What’s your muse? For me, it’s always been music. Music is the most reliable way to tap into the emotions I need to write honestly.

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Finding My Voice (Again)

March 20, 2021

When it comes to crafting voice, emotion is even more important than technique. You have to be in touch with your MC’s joy and pain.

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The Sunflower House, Uncategorized

Harsh Nazi Parenting Guidelines May Still Affect German Children of Today

May 13, 2025

If you’ve read The Sunflower House, you likely found Schwester Ziegler’s nursing rules (and those of Hochland Home) to be harsh and harmful. They were based on a popular Nazi-sanctioned book. In 1934, a German pulmonologist called Johanna Haarer wrote “The German Mother and Her […]

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Grateful for Every No

July 11, 2023

More than 200 rejections over 20 years? Yeppers! It’s been a long, wild, winding road to publication.

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The Deep Dive: Research

February 15, 2021

Taking a deep dive into research always helps me craft an authentic voice for my characters, because it gives them the freedom to move through a world in full color.

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So Many Reasons to Love Your Local Library

February 4, 2021

What do I love about my local library? Too many reasons to count, but here’s a starter list:

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  • Harsh Nazi Parenting Guidelines May Still Affect German Children of Today
  • A Playlist for The Sunflower House
  • How U.S. Eugenics Policies and Racial Laws Inspired Adolf Hitler
  • Finding Light in the Darkness
  • Writing About Hope

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Day 162 ❤️ Today, June 12, is Anne Frank's bir Day 162 ❤️ Today, June 12, is Anne Frank's birthday, and there are two quotes from her today.

I was very young when I first read The Diary of a Young Girl and it affected me greatly. It's beautiful and heartbreaking and inspiring all at once. Her writing is luminous. 

Anne would have been 96 today. She died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 at the age of 15. I often wonder what Anne would have written, had she lived.
Day 161 ❤️ Today's inspiration and a reminder Day 161 ❤️ Today's inspiration and a reminder about our shared humanity.
This lovely and evocative cover is for the French This lovely and evocative cover is for the French translation of The Sunflower House, released today.

It's thrilling to see this book shared with a global audience. The different titles and cover artwork are fascinating and designed to appeal to their unique markets, and I’ll share each as it comes out this summer and fall.

In this case, the title, “La maison aux nouveau-nés” translates into “The house for newborns.“

@cityeditions - Merci d'avoir partagé l'histoire d'espoir et de résistance d'Allina avec vos lecteurs!

Thank you for sharing Allina's story of hope and resistance with your readers!

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Résumé :

Dans un paisible village allemand, la vie d'Allina est idyllique : elle travaille dans une librairie et passe ses week-ends avec ses amis. Mais en 1938, tout change car Allina est juive. Une nuit, des membres du parti nazi font irruption et assassinent sa famille sous ses yeux.

La jeune femme échappe de justesse à la mort, mais ce n'est que le début d'un cauchemar. Elle est violée par un officier SS et conduite dans un Lebensborn, un lieu où l’on force les femmes à procréer avant de confier les bébés à de bonnes familles allemandes.

Impuissante, Allina est témoin du terrible sort que l’on réserve à certains nouveau-nés. Cependant lorsqu’elle rencontre Karl, un officier allemand qui dissimule bien des secrets, une lueur d’espoir s’allume dans ce monde d’une infinie noirceur : peut-être a-t-elle trouvé un allié prêt à l’aider à sauver ces enfants…

Même au coeur du mal, elle choisit le bien.

#Lamaisonauxnouveaunés #TheSunflowerHouse 

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Day 161 ❤️ Today's inspiration and an importan Day 161 ❤️ Today's inspiration and an important reminder.
The Poisoned Pen, my beloved indie bookstore in Sc The Poisoned Pen, my beloved indie bookstore in Scottsdale, has copies of The Sunflower House back in stock! I went by over the weekend to sign copies.

You can reserve a copy by calling The Pen at 888 560 9919 or order online at this link:

https://bit.ly/3AFyEdA

The Pen hosts hundreds of author events (virtual and live) each year, and I've met so many cool people there. SIgn up for their newsletter at the link below to be in the know on upcoming events:

https://poisonedpen.com/subscribe/

#TheSunflowerHouse #thepoisonedpenbookstore 

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Day 160 ❤️ Today's inspiration from Paolo Cohe Day 160 ❤️ Today's inspiration from Paolo Cohelo. It's a marathon, not a sprint. Keep going forward despite the fear.
Had so much fun today chatting online with members Had so much fun today chatting online with members of The Gifted Bookies! You all had such wonderful questions about The Sunflower House and those sunflower cupcakes and charcuterie cups looked divine! 

Thanks so much to @giftedonwashington for arranging and to @dianepiasen and @samanthalynnsiegel for recommending! (The next time I'm in NJ, cousins, I neeeeed to visit that store!)

#TheSunflowerHouse
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This beautiful and compelling cover is for the Cze This beautiful and compelling cover is for the Czech translation of The Sunflower House.

Thrilled and grateful to publishers who are sharing this book with their audiences. I find the different titles and cover artwork fascinating, as each is designed to appeal to their unique markets. Will be sharing more covers as each book is released this summer and fall.

In this case, the title, “Domov Hochland,” is Hochland Home, and the subtitle, “Továrna na děti,” translates into “factory for children,” or “children's factory.”

@knihygeorge - Děkuji, že jste se s čtenáři podělili o Allinin příběh! Thank you for sharing Allina’s story with your readers!

#TheSunflowerHouse #DomovHochland

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Domov Hochland přináší příběh Alliny Strauss, mladé ženy, která jedné osudné noci, poté co ztratila všechny, které milovala, je donucena pracovat jako ošetřovatelka ve státní továrně na děti zvané domov Hochland. Tam se stává svědkem i účastnicí hrůz bezohledného eugenického programu Heinricha Himmlera, známého jako program Lebensborn. Ženy „čisté“ krve zůstávaly v těchto domovech s jediným cílem. Zachovat árijskou populaci – a rodily tisíce dětí, které byly adoptovány „dobrými“ nacistickými rodinami.

Allina musí skrývat svou židovskou identitu a zároveň čelit nelidským praktikám programu, který proměňuje děti v pouhé nástroje ideologie. Zároveň však nachází spojence v Karlovi, důstojníkovi SS s vlastními tajemstvími, a společně riskují vše, aby zachránili nevinné životy.

Je to příběh o odvaze, mateřské lásce a nezdolné síle lidského ducha. 

U nakladatele 30% slevou:

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Day 153 ❤️ Today's inspiration is from Iain S. Day 153 ❤️ Today's inspiration is from Iain S. Thomas and is definitely what I needed to see today. May we choose to look for the beauty in this world  and treat each other with love and compassion.
A bit of a photo dump 😜 of a local place in Cha A bit of a photo dump 😜 of a local place in Chandler that got me out of the desert mindscape yesterday.

The Lavender Farm at Chateau de Vie reminds me a bit of the old houses in the Hudson Valley. It operates as a lavender farm, and offers tours of the chateau, classes, and an incredible gift shop. If you love lavender it's a great place to pick up soap, lotion, tea, body wash, and just about anything lavender-related. Plenty of variations on the theme - lavender vanilla is my favorite, but they offer citrus and rose and other lovely scented things!

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