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Marisa Parker
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Goodbye to Italia
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Recently, as I participated in a Local Authors Day (LAD), I bundled up both of my award-winning books in a silky ribbon and attached a PaperMate pen, offering this as a Mother’s Day special price package. When you’re an author, it’s important to get out there and set up your books and things to be eye-catching. Promotion is a necessary tool in an author’s toolkit … we have to attract attention so that we can have just two minutes to produce our heartfelt pitch on why our books are worth reading when there are so many stories out there for readers to choose from. The written word conveys so much and during WW2, my father, who was a Prisoner of War in Zonderwater, South Africa for almost all of the war—after having been captured in North Africa—the written word, such as letters from home, was a lifeline to the past, present, and hopefully, a future. #books #writing #Africa # Italy #WW2 #POW
Book Excerpt
Goodbye to Italia
By this time, I have become firm friends with the interpreter who continues to give me lessons in French and English. One day, he throws me a bundle of letters that have arrived from my mother. ‘Wait! What is this?’ My delight at receiving the letters turns to anger, as I remove one from an opened envelope and holding it up, see that sections have been cut out, leaving jagged edges.
‘Probably news about the war that they don’t want you to know about.’ I stare at him, taken aback by his nonchalance. Then, I start to smile as I think that it must be good news for the Italian army if they had to hide the information. I read around the bits of paper that in some places are ribbon-like. My mother would definitely have written about Mussolini and all that is happening in Italy.
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