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AlzAuthors
June 21 2019

Kindle version of Memory’s Last Breath on sale for $2.99 this week through AlzAuthors

AlzAuthors is a non-profit organization that promotes books written by people with dementia or their caretakers. It was started in 2015 by authors Marianne Sciucco, Jean Lee, and Vicki Tapia, each of them having taken care of parents with dementia and written a book about it. In time three more authors joined them and together they promoting […]

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brain waves
April 23 2019

Gerda is having a live talk with “Being Patient Alzheimer’s” TODAY April 23 at 7 p.m. EST/5 p.m. Mountain Time/4 p.m. PST on their Facebook page.

Log in via Facebook to access the call: Click here to find the interview on Facebook Live at the times listed below. If you have a life and cannot listen today at 7 p.m. EST/5 p.m. Mountain Time/4 p.m. PST, you can listen to it later as a podcast. I will send that link when it’s […]

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The Queen
October 3 2018

Says Sissy Spacek, “I read a book called Memory’s Last Breath”—part of her research for Castle Rock’s “The Queen”

Last week, my editor at Hachette, Paul Whitlatch, sent me a note saying, “I just noticed that the actress Sissy Spacek mentioned the book (and calls you “brilliant”) in this New York Magazine piece!” To say I’m no movie buff is an overstatement, but even I have heard of Sissy Spacek! Given my deficient memory, […]

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15 Bytes awards
September 19 2018

Memory’s Last Breath is a finalist in Utah’s 2018 15 Bytes Book Awards, Gerda reads at Sam Weller’s on October 18

For the past 6 years, 15 Bytes, “Utah’s Art Magazine,” has offered literary awards for adult fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. The 15 Bytes Book Awards are the only statewide literary book award for professional, independently published books that appeared in the previous year. Three guest, Utah-based, judges were tasked with ranking nominations based on […]

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winner is2
September 17 2018

Frontline!

While I am of course sad for RadioWest that their excellent work did not win, I think that Frontline’s entry, The Last Generation, presents a very necessary education on global warming and sea-level rising. Thanks so much, everybody, for your enthusiasm for and support of RadioWest’s entry, “Gerda.” About the winner, The Last Generation: “What is […]

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Trophy awards gold cup and golden laurel wreath, medals and sports podium
September 9 2018

RadioWest’s film series “Gerda” is a finalist in the 2018 Online Journalism Awards

Last week I received a delightful email from RadioWest’s magnificent producer, Elaine Clark: “While sitting in a Scottish bar in Paris, I got some amazing news! RadioWest is a finalist in a national award competition for our series and website about you.” As many of you know, RadioWest has been making a series of films […]

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