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…

I have done this before. Counted the days and weeks to an important event. One spring many years ago I counted the moments until my wedding, filled with thoughts of pearl-embroidered silk and waltzing with my dear groom to be. While stroking my heavy belly, singing to my unborn baby, I counted the…

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! 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 membe…

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…

Good morning friends and welcome to my new website! Feel free to browse around and check out my new home in the digital world! You are also welcome to sign up for my newsletter (in the column to the right) to hear about upcoming events, such as free giveaways, book launch behind the scenes, and ot…

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…

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…