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 fin…

Hello Friends! Hope you’re all happy and healthy and enjoying the summer! We’re moving into the marketing phase of my publishing journey and I have to say, it is very interesting! I just love book bloggers and book lovers and book nerds and it is tremendous fun to contact and be contacted by mem…

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 i…

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 daughter…

The last couple of days I have been contemplating this strange fact: The world is a different place now, than when I started writing my book. In this sense writing is like telling the future. In the years it takes to write, rewrite, edit and publish a book, the world spins and the people change….

Yesterday my personal essay was featured in She Writes “Behind the Book” series and I wanted to share this with you. She Writes is the world’s largest community of women writers with 25 000 members. ————– Amor Fati — Love your fate I never dreamed of writing a memoir. I just always had…

Lots of stuff happening! Got the new cover today! The long subtitle has been shortened to “A Memoir”, hope you like it as much as I do. Also, got my manuscript back from the proof reader, wow, very interesting! My editors have done a fantastic job and there really wasn’t that much to consider, b…