Kerstin Lieff's Blog

If you are part of a book club, we would love to hear your feedback on Letters From Berlin!

It has been such a pleasure to participate in various book club meetings over the past two years. Last week I met with members of one of the book clubs affiliated with the Boulder Public

Please join me for one or both of these fabulous book events.

On November 22, this coming Friday, The Center for Powerful Living in Colorado Springs is sponsoring a book fair with women writers of Colorado. I will be at the Center for Powerful Living, 635 Southpointe Ct, Suite 220, Colorado Springs, Colorado from 4:00pm to 7:00pm.

For more information, please visit their website:
http://www.centerforpowerfulliving.com

Then on Saturday, November 30, The Boulder Book Store is holding Sherman Alexie's Indies First Movement. Please check out this website: http://www.bookweb.org/indies-first. It will be an opportunity for authors to not only sign and sell our own books but also talk to people about our favorite writers and why we love to read them.

I will be at the Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl Street, Boulder, from 1:00 to 5:00 that day. Please come by any time during those hours.

I hope to see you at one or both events!

On Friday, June 21, 2013,Colorado Humanities held the annual Colorado Book Awards ceremony in Aspen. I was honored to have had my book, LETTERS FROM BERLIN, be chosen as a finalist for the awards and so was very lucky to be invited to attend. As the awards were presented in alphabetical order, Anthology came first, followed very quickly by Biography. I had hardly found my seat before I saw my book (along with the other contenders for the award) up on the large screen above the stage. Soon a judge walked to the podium and, rather deliberately, opened an envelope, pulled out the paper with the judges' decision, and then announced, "And the winner is�.LETTERS FROM BERLIN"!

I can't tell you how thrilled I am!

First, my thanks go to you: the reader. And you who went to all the trouble to write a review for Amazon and GoodReads and all the comments on FaceBook. And you who told your friends. With all the effort YOU made, somehow the judges for the Colorado Book Awards became aware of LETTERS, and it's because of you that all this happened. So thank you, thank you! And, on behalf of my mother, who died believing no one would want to hear her story--because it's a German story and a story from the wrong side of the war--thank you for listening to her stories.

Love,
Kerstin

On Friday, June 21, 2013,Colorado Humanities held the annual Colorado Book Awards ceremony in Aspen. I was honored to have had my book, LETTERS FROM BERLIN, be chosen as a finalist for the awards and so was very lucky to be invited to attend. As the awards were presented in alphabetical order, Anthology came first, followed very quickly by Biography. I had hardly found my seat before I saw my book (along with the other contenders for the award) up on the large screen above the stage. Soon a judge walked to the podium and, rather deliberately, opened an envelope, pulled out the paper with the judges' decision, and then announced, "And the winner is�.LETTERS FROM BERLIN"!

I can't tell you how thrilled I am!

First, my thanks go to you: the reader. And you who went to all the trouble to write a review for Amazon and GoodReads and all the comments on FaceBook. And you who told your friends. With all the effort YOU made, somehow the judges for the Colorado Book Awards became aware of LETTERS, and it's because of you that all this happened. So thank you, thank you! And, on behalf of my mother, who died believing no one would want to hear her story--because it's a German story and a story from the wrong side of the war--thank you for listening to her stories.

Love,
Kerstin

Very, VERY proud to announce that my book, 'Letters From Berlin', won in the biography category.

The event was held in Aspen. Stay tuned for more news and photos and follow me on Twitter (@kerstinlieff) and on my Facebook page (Letters From Berlin).

Thank you all so very much for your continued support.

Letters From Berlin: A Story of War, Survival, and the Redeeming Power of Love and Friendship

I am very proud to announce that my book, my mother's story, "Letters From Berlin" has been chosen as the winner of the Colorado Book Award, best in the biography category.

Thank you so much for you continued support and please, share this story!

Finally! I'll find out this Friday (are you coming??) if "Letters From Berlin" wins the best book in the Biography category.

Colorado Book Awards, June 21, 1-4, Doerr-Hosier Center at Aspen Meadows, Aspen, Colorado

The Colorado Humanities & Center for the Book is proud to present the 22nd Colorado Book Awards recognizing the best books by Colorado authors, editors, publishers, illustrators and photographers published in 2012. The culminating event of Aspen Summer Words literary festival, the awards are presented annually and given in a number of categories, including: anthology, biography, children's literature, creative nonfiction, fiction, genre fiction, history, juvenile literature, nonfiction, pictorial, poetry, and young adult.

Tickets are $10 if reserved in advance, and $20 at the door. For more information contact Christine Goff at goff@coloradohumanities.orgor 303.894.7951 x21.

http://www.coloradohumanities.org/con...

Publishing my mother�s story was something I had suddenly dreaded
when the final �clink� was heard from the publisher. �No more
changes, this is IT! It�s about to hit the bookstores in two weeks!�

I was suddenly mortified. What had I done? I asked my editor if
we couldn�t just NOT

Hello Chicago!!

I'll be at Women and Children First tonight, Friday, April 19th starting at 7:30. Come early to get a good seat and please share with any friends in the area. I'm looking forward to meeting you all there.

Thank you again for all your continued support.

http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/

I have been nominated and am a finalist for the Colorado Book Awards in the biography catagory.

I will be participating with the other finalists and reading on April 25 at the Denver Press Club.

Please come out and support me if you can.

I'll be making an event for this so keep your eyes open for the invite! I envite you to join my Facebook page to keep up to date on all events and postings.

Links are located to the left of this post.