My Blog
Starting Again
I wonder if you struggle with this. I’ve been carrying around a stack of pages from my novel for months now. It’s heavy. If I’m going to be totally honest, I’ve written two new pages over the past year. It’s traveled with me to Denver...
Readings
I’m rarely nervous. My biggest worry is that no one will actually show up. I love sharing this story, and it’s wonderful to meet so many people for whom the story resonates. I did a reading in Stockholm at the Karolinska Institute, where I’ve been...
The Long Road to Publication
I started writing Searching for Mia, then Finding Mia, and now My City of Dreams, in 2004 when my elderly father, a Viennese Holocaust survivor, began having flashbacks and nightmares about the past. I was suffering from severe depression and my dreams had...