Please visit the  https://www.facebook.com/BookAwardsContests  facebook page.   Thank you to Five Star Dragonfly Book Awards for honoring my book, “Mollie’s War,” with a first place award in memoir/biography in your 2012 book awards.

My parent’s love story (Mollie Weinstein Schaffer and Jack Schaffer) was detailed in 100 words or less in Sunday’s Chicago Tribune Sunday section called “Love Notes, A love story in 100 words” on page 4: http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/life/ct-sun-0916-share-love-20120916,0,4382770.story

Please read the latest review of “Mollie’s War” on Goodreads.com by A. G. Dow http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/379302143

My speaking about “Mollie’s War” at the Pritzker Military Library on July 19 is listed in today’s Northbrook Patch, local online news, local connection section.   I will be addressing the Military Division of the Special Libraries Association after their annual conference in Chicago.

See more about it:  http://northbrook.patch.com/announcements/local-author-to-address-military-libraries-division-of-the-special-libraries-association?ncid=newsltuspatc00000001

Another blog post on the Jewish Women’s Archives about my mother, Mollie Schaffer, and Mollie’s War. http://jwa.org/blog/war-motherhood-little-cheesecakewar-motherhood-little-cheesecake

Today Cyndee is the featured author on the JuniperGrove website of Jaidis Shaw talking about “Mollie’s War” and my journey to writing the book with my mother.   There will be a give-away of two books.   Please visit the website for more information. http://www.junipergrove.net/featured-author-cyndee-schaffer-giveaway/

Today my mother, Mollie Weinstein Schaffer, is featured on the “We Remember” section on the website of the Jewish Women’s Archives.  This section features the passing of notable Jewish women.   My mother would be so proud!
www.jwa.org/weremember/schaffer

Today “Mollie’s War” is featured on the “Passing of a Military Mom/Author” section on the website of the National Museum of American Jewish Military History. Although we were not able to attend the Family Stories, Daughters, Mothers and Bubbes event in Washington DC in May 2011, Mary Westley from the Museum read some of my mother’s letters.
http://www.nmajmh.org

Please read my interview in A Place for Writers, the blog of Julie Jordan. It’s the leading entry on her blog today. It was fun doing this interview and connecting with Julie, another child of a WWII Veteran. Her father was a B-29 pilot in the Pacific.
http://wp.me/pKBK0-2md