Top 50 Non-Fiction Titles for 2009
Not a lot of time to write this week, as I have relatives visiting from Italy...spending too much time eating and drinking wine for sure! But I am taking five minutes from work just to let you all readers know that "Innocent War" made the Top 50 list for Non-Fiction Titles in 2009 at Cyrus Webb's Conversations Book Club!It made spot 16 which got me two spots higher than "Moonwalk" by Michael Jackson!Having grown up under Michael's music empire since the early 70's...this is just surreal...Check it out following this link: http://conversationsbookclub.blogspot.com/ 

Revisiting My life through Favorites Books
I offered to put together a list of books to be reccomended on Flashlight Worthy, they agreed and so I began a long visit with myself. To my surprise 5 books popped in my mind inmediatlly, none of them are current, none of them trendy, all of them are classics, all of them helped me grow, all of them I still own.The task was as simple as my list's title Five Books That Helped Me Discover and Love My Italian Heritage. Through the years I never felt my Heritage was a big part of who I am. I've always seen myself as someone who searches growth by breaki

Last Book Signing Of the Year
Today will be my last book Signing of the year for Innocent War at Brave new Books - Austin, TX, right on time for the Holidays' rush!It has been a wonderful year, filled of learning, achievements and new relationships, as I meet so many people on my events. My Holiday season will be filled with gratefulness for such great welcome from so many. And as I prepare to continue spreading all the life lessons I learned with this project I hope to find more time to finish Book 2 “A New Beginning" before the New year comes.Thank You all in Barnes and Noble, Borders (in Florida and Austin), Brave New Books, Book Woman, The Brow

So little time, so much life...farewell little Gina
  "Her light is fading away slowly..." said to me my cousin a while back...when I called him to find out about my aunt, little Gina in Innocent War.How do you fight cancer for 14 years?   With a WWII Survivor spirit, and strength; with the unlimited love of a son; with of lot of endurance.   Her light finally faded last week, as she followed my uncle, who left us right before she did. Their memory will never fade.I will always remember her as my sweet aunt from Sicily

Writing, promoting, working...Thank God for my family
Being so busy lately as I follow my dreams, while trying to make ends meet, has brought something very special, other than exhaustion. It has given me a new level of appreciation for my family: my husband, and my two daughters.Without their support, all of the things that I have achieved so far, would have never been possible...I thank them truly from the bottom of my heart, as I reach a new level of love for them, if there is such possibility of loving them more!Today, we produced a new video to promote Innocent War. My husband helped keeping the dogs quiet and out of the way, while my oldest daughter filmed and directed the video, and my youngest daughter made blooper