Stephanie, thank you for the reach out and for taking the time to share your very personal connection to the novel you have created. I would be delighted and honored to read it and add to our reading treasure trove if it seems a good fit. I have just ordered your novel and I wish you the very very best in all ways, always!

Bonnie, Serendipity at it’s most beautiful, thank you for the gifts you bring!

Your Sapphire Readers Club came highly recommended to me on one of my recent promotional videos. After doing my research, I would be honored to work with you and hopefully have my debut novel chosen as a new read for one of your book clubs.

My story is historical fiction with a timeline alternating back and forth between 2005 New York and WWII era France. It’s about a woman, Masha, who survives the war, but loses her entire family. Due to the depth of the heartache and loss she endures, she never speaks of that time. Sixty years later, when she’s diagnosed with dementia, her neurologist recommends reminiscence therapy to help with her anxiety and depression. With help from her mother’s journals and saved letters, her family is able to piece together the tragic moments from her past; and secrets, that no one could have imagined, are revealed.

My story, although fictional, is very personal to me. My grandfather served in the Korean War, but would never speak of his service. After he passed away, my grandmother’s dementia progressed very rapidly and even more aggressively. I combined two of my most favorite people into one protagonist to create a story I believe a lot of readers will find real, raw and relatable.

Here is the link to my Amazon page: https://a.co/d/0c4uSTha. If you feel that my novel would resonate well with your readers, I would love to share my story with them.

Rhonda,
Thank you kindly for the reach out! I will check out your novel – always looking for a new read and selections for my Sapphire Girls Book Club.

While we’re not a lesbian club, blog or site, our philosophy is always about supporting all of our Sisters – we are inclusive of all women. I count many in the LGBTQ community close friends and family.

Best of look with your novel and I look forward to reading it!
Joyce

Jennifer,
How lovely to hear from you and hearty and warm congratulations on A Moon in All Things. I LOVE the brief info you provided and would welcome the opportunity to read your novel. AND I’m happy to purchase it to support your literary efforts! Truly. Let me know where I can find it, and after reading I may indeed include it here as a Sapphire Sisters Book Club pick!
Thanks again for the reach out,
Joyce

Brief Info About A Moon in All Things:
1820s Ireland: 16-year-old Morrigan Lane longs to become a sea captain, but The Otherworld has other plans. When she is summoned to claim her ancient healing lineage—gifts the dominating powers call “dangerous,” she must navigate a world where land and sea, myth and reality, are deeply intertwined.

TRAILER: https://youtu.be/t-VJBWPOwoA?si=5O1exepgisc8NqrF

I look forward to the possibility of an email exchange.

DESCRIPTION: Bella Sanchez has a good job and a good life with her partner, Robin, and their dog, Rusty, in Colorado. But one random act of kindness threatens to take that all away. After a chance meeting, an obsessive stranger’s plot to make Bella her own leaves the couple—and their LGBTQ community—reeling.

Enter Sandy LePersiller, a handsome lesbian detective who’s known for always catching the bad guy. Will her luck run out this time, or can she unravel the mystery and save Bella before it’s too late?
Thanks for considering my work!
Rhonda Webster

I loved hearing from you Heather! We share a lovely piece of paradise out here in the west – I’m just below you in Montana – well, just below in western terms but still. Big mountains, big sky, big wild ones, big emotions, and big love! I hope you’ll drop by often and thank you for reaching out!