The official publication day for Beautiful Affliction is finally here! Today my book is released in bookstores all over the US! Amazon and other online booksellers started shipping the book three weeks ago, and I have been getting so many messages, pictures, favorite quotes, questions about the bo…

This week I have been guest author on best-selling author Terri Giuliano Long’s blog. It was a tremendous honor to be invited to join her on her wonderful blog and this week I have been amazed time and again by the beautiful ways my book was presented, it brought tears to my eyes more than once…

Busy days at the Fogelburger’s! 🙂 I am very close to finalizing the first draft of my novel taking place in Jakarta. Yesterday our girls came back from their holiday in Sweden (Yay!). Tomorrow we leave for a mini vacation together in Malaysia. And the cover for Beautiful Affliction has been final…

Hello friends! Today we (my husband and I) have been celebrating the Advance Reader Copies of Beautiful Affliction that arrived from the US in a big brown box! We went to Hotel Dharmawangsa for dinner and while there in the beautiful garden, we took some pics to show you! I can barely believe it…

Remember I told you I got a third blurb? Wonderful author Rita Gardner read my book in one day and then sent me this: “Brilliantly paced, weaving glimpses of the author’s past into an ever-tightening noose that engulfs Lene and her young family in adulthood, this memoir left me as breathless as if…

What a Mother’s Day! (Today is Mother’s Day in the US.) I got these beautiful white lilies from Anders and the girls, who woke me up this morning singing (!) and carrying a delicious fruit platter. The lilies (my favorite) make the whole house smell like a summer meadow. We went to our favorite Kor…

Did you check out my “Books” page recently? If you did, you might have noticed the TWO BLURBS I got for Beautiful Affliction!!!! (*happy-dancing*) In praise of BEAUTIFUL AFFLICTION: “Gripping, powerful, touching, beautiful. A memoir about a woman who fights to remain alive because of her daughters…