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I’m so glad 2022 is over. I’m finally feeling more like myself again.

I’ve been silent for months while dealing with the ongoing health issue I mentioned last summer, but also while preparing my mom’s memoir—I Want to Live! My Journey Beyond Generational Child Abuse—for publication. I rescued the manuscript from her in the 80s when she threatened to burn it all in a suicidal rage after a literary agent told her that “wanting to prevent child abuse was a poor reason for writing a book.”

The official publication date is Feb 25, 2023 (yep, that’s tomorrow), on what would have been her 90^th birthday. Knowing that I would eventually publish her passion project after her death in 2012, I began scanning in the hundreds of type-written pages in late 2021. Then the year from H came along, and it took me the entire year to finish, edit, research a bit more, write my portion, and put it all together. But that was exactly the way it was supposed to turn out.

This book is not my usual fare and certainly not the genre you signed up for, so feel free to stop reading if you aren’t interested. If, however, you are interested in the life story of an abused woman who helped form the Parent’s Anonymous® chapter in Corpus Christi, Texas in the 1970s to stop the cycle of child abuse, you have the chance to download a free review copy from StoryOrigin for the next week. You can download a sample first if you aren’t sure this is something you’d want to read. Click here to set up a free account and download.

Once you’re read it, I would appreciate a review on Amazon, Goodreads, and/or Bookbub.

If you’d rather support the amazing Parent’s Anonymous® organization, skip the download and hop on over to Amazon and buy your copy. A portion of all book sales are donated to the group that helped my mother so much.

If you're in the US and would prefer a signed copy by the co-author, reply to this email and we’ll figure out the details.

In other news, Coco Luna Bear (aka Luna-tic) will be one on March 1^st. She turned out to be WAY bigger than expected, but still under 20 pounds. She’s my buddy when she isn’t being the “tic” part of her nickname. She forces me to get up and move during the day since she’s always wanting to play. She also likes to “help” me work.

Thank you for your continued support. I’m hoping to have something new of my own soon.

With Light, Love, and Appreciation,

Author of Bridge to Us