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A Birthday Wish from the Past for Valdik Holzer
July 23, 2013 A BIRTHDAY WISH FROM THE PAST FOR VALDIK HOLZER Today would have been my dad’s 102nd birthday had he lived beyond January 3, 2000. In honor of his birthday and the historic letter collection he hid away after WWII, I’ve cut and pasted below a translated version of his parents’ 1941 letter…
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Adventurers Against Their Will Book Launch finally happened! I then left the country… Now that I’ve returned, I wonder: What do Amazon book rankings really mean?
Adventurers Against Their Will Book Launch finally happened! I then left the country… Now that I’ve returned, I wonder: What do Amazon book rankings really mean? Most experts would advise any author: “When you launch your book, be accessible!” After all, if you place your ‘baby’ on various on-line retail outlets like Amazon, Barnes &…
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March 1, 2013 Today’s world of popping out a book
It’s amazing to think that my writing journey has been going on nearly nine hours every single day for five years. I started with the epic World War II story of my Czech father (My Dear Boy: The Discovery of a Lifetime),naively thinking I’d finish that book in about two years. Then, as I wrote…
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March 1, 2013 Today’s world of popping out a book
It’s amazing to think that my writing journey has been going on nearly nine hours every single day for five years. I started with the epic World War II story of my Czech father (My Dear Boy: The Discovery of a Lifetime),naively thinking I’d finish that book in about two years. Then, as I wrote…
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March 1, 2013 Today’s world of popping out a book
It’s amazing to think that my writing journey has been going on nearly nine hours every single day for five years. I started with the epic World War II story of my Czech father (My Dear Boy: The Discovery of a Lifetime),naively thinking I’d finish that book in about two years. Then, as I wrote…
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So you want to be an author?
So you want to be an author? Trust me; if you take this new job as a writer seriously, you are in for an experience-like-none-other. After thirty-five years in the business of engineering, seventeen as a business owner, involved in community activism up to my eye balls, in 2008 I retired to write a book…
Extraordinary World War II Stories of Survival, Escape, and Connection, Unlike Any Other
- Available in Paperback and joanieschirm
- Amazon (Paperback or joanieschirm)
- Amazon International (Paperback or joanieschirm):
BR, CA, FR, DE, IT, JP, ES, UK - Barnes & Noble (Paperback)
- Books-A-Million (Paperback)
- Powell Books (Paperback)
- TRITON (Paperback)
Based on her father’s collection of 400 old letters, Adventurers Against Their Will is the deeply personal account of a daughter’s investigative journey to locate the Czech correspondents and their descendants around the world.
