Author: Lucia Matuonto

It wasn’t quite Marie Kondo meets Grey Gardens in The Women’s Room, but it was close. Professor Ludwig Berg hoarded; Grace Berg gave away as much as she could. During their thirty-five years of marriage, Luddy was all about the concrete, while abstract Grace sidelined her career in music because marriage and the family required it. At sixty, Grace divorced him to claim her space in the arts, but, by taking his own life, it seemed that Luddy had written the last movement of their relationship. Or did he? A symphony can have a coda. Following Luddy’s tragic suicide, Grace…

“It’s My House, Too!”: Guidelines for Living with a Hoarder by Deborah Greenhut, Author, The Hoarder’s Wife During 35 years as a hoarder’s wife, author Deborah Greenhut explains that she had to change her thinking many times over. At first, she thought her husband could learn to pick up his things. When she realized that he did not choose to clean up, she tried to do it for him, and that intrusion became the source of many arguments. Whatever she brought to the trash can, whether it was spoiled food or broken furniture, he brought it back into the house. …

Can you tell us a little about your book in your own words?My book explained how I was kidnapped by Murahalin militias, fled my village, and how the Lost Boys spent much of their lives running from kidnapping and death. They escaped ruthless and well-armed Murahalin militias that kidnapped, persecuted, and murdered tens of thousands from the Lost Boys. After a journey of over three thousand miles on bare feet, I was the leader of nineteen to seven hundred Lost Boys from the Pinyido refugee camp in Ethiopia and the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya from 1988 to 2004. The…

What is your best mental health tip you want everyone to know from your book? You never have to be perfect at any of this. You just have to keep getting back up. What was your inspiration behind writing The Path 365? My sister had died of an overdose after a lifelong struggle with narcotics. I began working with women with substance use disorder on the obstetric unit where I worked, because I knew I needed to do something. I didn’t understand why I had struggled with things and gotten better and she was just crippled by shame. I returned…

A young boy’s prophetic visions. A terrifying force of evil. Will chaos reign supreme? Blind since birth, Daemus Alaric is blessed with the gift of the Sight and has left his noble home to join the fabled Keepers of the Forbidden, wielders of vast arcane knowledge who serve Warminster’s leaders. But Daemus’ ideal life is short-lived as a recurring nightmare takes hold, threatening to catapult him into a terrifying struggle that will leave the fate of the Keepers hanging in the balance. Will the forces of darkness prevail? Book One of the Warminster Series, now available, is the product of…

Born of steel, fire and black wind, J.V. Hilliard was raised as a highlander in the foothills of a once-great mountain chain on the confluence of the three mighty rivers that forged his realm’s wealth and power for generations. His father, a peasant twerg, toiled away in industries of honest labor and instilled in him a work ethic that would shape his destiny. His mother, a local healer, cared for his elders and his warrior uncle, who helped to raise him during his formative years. His genius brother, whose wizardly prowess allowed him to master the art of the abacus…

Hello Sandy, Welcome to Brand.Education! Tell us what drives you to write? Your motivation and the purpose of your book?Anyone who was old enough to watch television in August of 2005 recalls watching the horrific flooding of New Orleans. For more than a full week, the world was glued, all day long, to television sets. There were people on roofs for days and days, with no help in sight. But only a tiny fraction of those people knows why those levees broke, killing 1500+ people and nearly wiping out a whole city. My book––a horror story, a mystery, and David…

This is a love story. The story of the world before, but mostly after the day Imagine becomes possible. A tale of dreams and a revolution in love. Imagine a world of reason, intelligence and cooperation.A world with no borders and no countries. A world with no religion but full of spirit and consideration. A place where love, trust and faith dominate. A place where knowledge is shared freely and possessions are not important. Remembering a fabulous song but this time it’s a story. Imagine will change how you think about the world. Visit: https://www.richardaharris.com/ for more information.

Imagine if everything happening in your imagination also happens in real life. This is exactly what happens one day in the life of a curious, sweet, and intelligent girl named Johana. Under the colors of a beautiful ladybug, Johana discovers all the mysteries and beauties hiding in her own garden! Visit Isabel’s website for more information.

• Hello Sandy, tell me about yourself. I am a person who switched careers and countries in order to have more time to myself and a richer life. I was a newspaper editor in Mexico City for a decade and a half, then moved to Los Angeles and after many false starts found a new career path that I love, court interpreting. I got involved in many other interesting work and leisure activities, and also wrote a conversational book, with a light sprinkling of humor, titled Choose to Prevail. . Where are you from? I’m Mexican; my mother and father were born in Mexico.…