Berkeley CA

Winner, best memoir, 2025, May 2, 2025

Listen to the whole interview here: March 2025 Virtual Book Club on Vimeo I started writing in January 2020 during a leave from work...

Sign up here to get the Zoom link: March Virtual Book Club Sign Up You will learn: Why to write and publish a memoir: Write a memoir for...

My interview with Rachel for her podcast IndoctriNation with Rachel Bernstein , A weekly podcast covering cults, manipulators, and...

I can hardly believe it. Thank you all, for reading my book and for writing me a review on Goodreads or Amazon! More about me and my...

I am proud to be a part of my community's Mental Health speaker series, creating conversations to remove the stigma of talking about...

Holidays are often painted as a season of joy and love. But for those who of us who were or are “unwanted,” the black sheep or the...

In this deeply moving episode of Older & Bolder, Debbie McCulloch speaks with Penny Lane about her journey of surviving and overcoming...

Listen to my recent book talk at the Jewish Community Library of San Francisco, based on my memoir, Redeemed, a Memoir of a Stolen...

Great book discussion at Belvedere Tiburon Library   last night. Special thanks to Adam Sasso, Joey Della Santina, and Milos Petrovic...

A huge THANK YOU to Patrick and his staff at Books End   Bookstore in Syracuse NY, and to all my cousins and the other ladies who came...

Indie Bookstores are THE BEST! Thank you to Charter Books  in Newport, RI for hosting my discussion of "Redeemed," my new memoir about...

My victory lap. Back in Jackson Heights, Queens , at my beloved public library, after climbing out a two-story window to run away from...

Back to Linden, New Jersey, where my book starts, and where I lived with my Aunt Charlotte and cousins George and Alex until my father...

A warm welcome from the staff at Barnes & Noble   Massapequa Park, Long Island. Karen, a fan came by to have me sign her book that she...

My first stop on the East Coast Book tour! At the Hoboken Library Festival . New Jersey feels like a homecoming. Here with Councilman ...

Here is a list of our stops: Sept 21, 2024 , 11am - 4pm Hoboken Library Festival, Church Square Park, Hoboken. Hoboken Public Library, ...

One of the best things about being a published writer and speaking in bookstores is meeting people who thank me for telling my story and...

See my interview with writer and blogger Sarahlyn Bruck, about my childhood survival memoir, Redeemed, A Memoir of a Stolen Childhood....