Christina Beauchemin Featured on This Podcast Will Change Your Life
Christina Beauchemin, author of the memoir Let My Legacy Be Love: A Shortcut to Self-Loving, was featured on This Podcast Will Change Your Life on October 13. Listen to Beauchemin discuss how feelings are not facts, NeuroLinguistics Programming, being a Renaissance person, and the release of her memoir. Let My Legacy Be Love is an intimate exploration of one woman's experiences as she digs in to understand the events that shaped her. Marrying her love of storytelling and her
Alena Dillon's Article in BookTrib
Alena Dillon, author of My Body is a Big Fat Temple, has written an article for BookTrib that will be published on October 18. My Body Is A Big Fat Temple, a memoir of pregnancy and early motherhood, follows a writer as she debates having children, miscarries, faces morning sickness, uncertainty, physical impairments, labor, breastfeeding, the “baby blues,” the heartache of not loving her son as she thinks she should, parenting through a plague, until finally (basically, most
Elizabeth B. Splaine Featured on This Podcast Will Change Your Life
Elizabeth B. Splaine, author of the newly released Swan Song, was featured on This Podcast Will Change Your Life. Listen to Splaine discuss her thoughts on traditional publishing, marketing, and the release of her new book. Read more about Swan Song below. Ursula Becker’s operatic star is on the rise in Nazi Berlin…until she discovers that she is one-quarter Jewish, a mischling of the second degree. Although Hitler is aware of her lineage, her popularity and exquisite voice p
Alena Dillon Author Event & My Body is a Big Fat Temple Chosen as Essential Pick on City Weekly
My Body is a Big Fat Temple was recently chosen as one of the essential A&E picks for Salt Lake City Weekly. Join Dillon in a free virtual event sponsored by Weller Book Works on October 14 at 8pm EDT/ 6pm MDT. You can watch the livestream on Weller's YouTube channel. Read more about My Body is a Big Fat Temple below. My Body Is A Big Fat Temple, a memoir of pregnancy and early motherhood, follows a writer as she debates having children, miscarries, faces morning sickness, un
Alena Dillon's Interview on Warwick's Facebook Live
On October 13, Warwick's hosted Alena Dillon as she discussed her new book, My Body Is A Big Fat Temple: An Ordinary Story of Pregnancy and Early Motherhood, in conversation with Catherine Newman, an award-winning bestselling author. You can watch the interview here. My Body Is A Big Fat Temple, a memoir of pregnancy and early motherhood, follows a writer as she debates having children, miscarries, faces morning sickness, uncertainty, physical impairments, labor, breastfeedin
D.W. Hogan Featured on This Podcast Will Change Your Life
D.W. Hogan, author of Unbroken Bonds, was featured on This Podcast Will Change Your Life. Listen to Hogan discuss the Baby Scoop Era, abortion rights, and stigma. Read more about Unbroken Bonds below. In 1956 the worst thing a teenage girl could do was to become pregnant. Joanna, Prissy, Jessie, and Mary become lifelong friends when they are incarcerated in the Frances Weston Home for Unwed Mothers in Knoxville, Tennessee. Together they endure the culture of shame and soul cr
Alena Dillon to Be Interviewed on A Mighty Blaze
Alena Dillon, author of My Body is a Big Fat Temple, will be interviewed on A Mighty Blaze on October 14 at 4pm ET. You can watch the event on Facebook or Youtube. My Body Is A Big Fat Temple, a memoir of pregnancy and early motherhood, follows a writer as she debates having children, miscarries, faces morning sickness, uncertainty, physical impairments, labor, breastfeeding, the “baby blues,” the heartache of not loving her son as she thinks she should, parenting through a p
Woodhall Press Donates to Charity Every Mother Counts
Alena Dillon and Woodhall Press are proud to donate 10% of profits from sales of My Body Is a Big Fat Temple during October 11-13 to Every Mother Counts, a charitable organization dedicated to decreasing the number of global maternal deaths by improving access to quality and equitable maternity care. Alena Dillon writes about this topic in the chapter "What To Doula," where she defends the importance of doulas in decreasing the maternal mortality rate. Alena Dillon writes abo
Mike Keren Featured on This Podcast Will Change Your Life
Mike Keren, author of the memoir Four Funerals, No Marriage, was recently featured on This Podcast Will Change Your Life. On the podcast Keren discussed coping, humor, healthcare, and the torture of open mics. In Four Funerals, No Marriage: A Memoir, author Mike Keren gives his readers an inside look at his unexpected foray into caregiving to his sick and dying parents and in-laws. Often funny and always poignant, the story begins when his loving but difficult parents announc
Alisha Bashaw Featured on This Podcast Will Change Your Life
Alisha Bashaw, author of Four Eyes: A Memoir of a Millennial Caregiver, was featured on This Podcast Will Change Your Life. Bashaw discussed caregiving, loss, organ donation, and the importance of sharing one's story on the podcast. Read more about Four Eyes: A Memoir of a Millennial Caregiver below: Eight months into graduate school in a new city, Alisha’s mom suffered a heart attack on her dad’s 60th birthday, rerouting her entire life and demanding that she catapult into f