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✍️ writing the untold stories of things
📚 Book: Piece by Piece available now!
💌 weekly reflections on Substack

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Booksellers and librarians across the country just saw this photo in Shelf Awareness Pro’s Image of the Day. 📸

If you’re one of them and you’d like to host an event or book club visit for ISTANBUL DREAMING, my DMs are open! And readers: asking your local indie or library to carry it is one of the best ways to help a debut. 💙

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What are you loving?

#booklaunching
#postseasonbaseball
#fallreading
#octoberlove

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I miss these ladies already! 🦋 #cincinnatiskyline #mrbl

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My August Newsletter, "Connect Four...or More!" dropped on Substack today.

@kimdanielsonwrites is my Author Spotlight, highlighting her amazing memoir: Piece by Piece: A Life Remembered through Things Lost.
Enjoy!

Check it out and then subscribe--would love to connect with you each month :)

#newsletter #authorspotlight #memoir #writingcommunity

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#nationalgirlfriendsday 🥂Is it a coincidence that this author journey is filled with amazing women launching books @lindsaybartels_ @kimdanielsonwrites @denisederyabrandt @rosakwoneaston @maliamattochmcmanus @gaylebrownauthor, creating publishing companies @allemudrick, becoming book influencers @samanthadockser sound engineering audiobooks @therebellewriter, mentoring and publishing @ecquinnauthor @connierichardsonwrites, @hiyaharrison, leading book clubs that feature women as main characters, @kareyheardwrites @imbeets @lacialu32 @rvshelton and making sure diverse voices are heard on television and online @sandraendotv @hollyjoylucky @sommertimecasting and @darynkagan then there are those brave enough to bust balls in Hollywood @amandatnyc BLESS YOU! Thank you! IRL girlfriends💕My GIRLFRIENDS!! This publishing journey would not be anything without you.

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A trip to the US, for me, is only complete when I have to juggle a tower of books between bags to bring them home 😅📚❤️ (and this isn’t even the full stack!!). Very grateful that these friends/treasures and (some) signed editions made it to AUS🙏🇦🇺🥰✨

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A quick one for the grid capturing the essence of our rich and wonderful, cozy fireside-chat-of-an-event (did all those hyphens just for you, Al ;)) on Tuesday evening @tatteredcover_aspengrove 🥰🤗🩵🤍✨ All the magic, hearts and goosebumps for this one! Such a special memory to share with @allemudrick 💙💜❣️and incredibly wonderful seeing @kimdanielsonwrites and @oh_hi_layla there among family, friends and many of the medical care team I grew up around 🙏💕✨

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More blurb gratitude this week, from author Kim Danielson, whose memoir PIECE BY PIECE: A LIFE REMEMBERED THROUGH THINGS LOST explores memory and loss so beautifully. She says ISTANBUL DREAMING will transport you to "a different world you'll find hard to leave."

I spent years living in that world while writing it; I hope you won't want to leave either!

Preorder at the link in my bio — it arrives 9/29.
#historicalfiction #histfic #debutauthor #bookstagram #istanbuldreaming

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Halfway through the year means it’s time for a midyear book celebration! It’s been a pretty good reading year so far with wonderful debuts, a wide range of genres (lots of good nonfiction and memoir this year!), and more upcoming releases to anticipate.

My best book so far will be published in September (thank you NetGalley for the ARC!), but everyone needs to go preorder it now.

Have you read any of these books? What’s been your best read of 2026 so far?

Happy reading!

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There is still time to sign up for the workshop on 6/22, Write Your Legacy: The Piece by Piece Approach! Join us for this meaningful object-based storytelling event!

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ZIBBY APPRECIATION (and a little bit of our story) POST!!!

1. The podcast episode of @totallybookedwithzibby I am fortunate enough to be a part of this week is the PERFECT pairing for my book. My discussion of IMOGEN IN WAITING with @zibbyowens comes after listening to @drjaimeknopman and @rebeccaraphael discuss OWN YOUR FERTILITY. Words they say are almost verbatim of things I say in my memoir. Their work is perfect companion book for mine if you’re looking for more info, research and details for all things modern fertility! It is the book I wish I had in my twenties and one I would give my daughter 🙏💕!!!!

2. @emmagreyauthor’s book, THE LAST LOVE NOTE, was the first book I read from @zibbypublishing when it released, thanks to my @bookofthemonth subscription when I lived in the US! Emma was the first Australian writer I came to know and love and happened to be the gateway for me into this phenomenal community. In fact, she is in my acknowledgements!

3. Before reading through and editing the first draft of my memoir, I read Zibby’s memoir, BOOKENDS. Highly recommend it. It was wonderful to connect on the page with another book lover and deep thinker, feeler and sharer and I so appreciated reading her story 💗🥰🙌 (PS she has a new collection of essays coming out in September called BETWEEN CHAPTERS—if you haven’t heard—and I CANNOT wait to read it)!!!!

4. HERE AFTER by @literaryamy just stuck me deeply with its reverence and beauty. I recommend it any and every day to anyone who will listen ❤️❤️ (I also can’t help myself and mentioned it on this episode!)

5. Zibby’s debut novel, BLANK, was our in person ticket to connect. This pic was of me reading it in Colorado as a jovial and entertaining wonderful companion while I was planning out the next steps in my writing process ✍🏻 (it is so good and hard to believe is her first work of long form fiction!!!)

6. I happened to take a screen shot of the event I planned on going to to meet her…

7. Then I found this page of my goals before we met (sharing for grins of where I was in my process circa April 2024)

8. A little positive pic I downloaded to cheer myself on…

All in all: keep going!! + pic of my dad 💙 ZIBBY APPRECIATION (and a little bit of our story) POST!!!

1. The podcast episode of @totallybookedwithzibby I am fortunate enough to be a part of this week is the PERFECT pairing for my book. My discussion of IMOGEN IN WAITING with @zibbyowens comes after listening to @drjamieknopman and @rebeccaraphael discuss OWN YOUR FERTILITY. Words they say are almost verbatim of things I say in my memoir. Their work is perfect companion book for mine if you’re looking for more info, research and details for all things modern fertility! It is the book I wish I had in my twenties and one I would give my daughter 🙏💕!!!!

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Want to join me? Register at: Kimdanielson.com

#mondayinspiration
#writingworkshops
#legacybuilding

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