Alice J. Wisler Reviews

Born and raised in Japan, I love sushi! Additionally, I enjoyed walks to the stationer's shop to purchase notebooks, scented erasers and pencils when I was in elementary school. With each purchase, I had been sure I was going to write a bestseller!

I write, website, and revel in crafting fun characters in Durham, NC. My initial five novels are put in some part of my own state. Rain Song (Christy Finalist 2009) occurs in the little city of Mount Olive, home to Mount Olive Pickles and strong family ties. How Sweet It Is, plus a Christy Finalist in 2010, takes places in the Smoky Mountains. Hatteras Girl made her debut October 2010. Of course, it is put in the beautiful Outer Banks. A Wedding Invitation, has flashbacks of configurations at a refugee camp in the Philippines and also has landscapes in Winston-Salem, NC. It came in October 2011. For mepersonally, this novel represents the need all of us have to belong and be approved, just like my Amerasian personality feels. Still Life in Shadows, my fifth novel, occurs in a little mountain town that I created known as Twin Branches. This is also a narrative of belonging as Gideon Miller helps dissatisfied Amish youth relocate and discover their places in modern society. Underneath the Silk Hibiscus is the very first historical novel, set in a Japanese-American internment camp, throughout WWII.

As well as speaking at conferences and retreats throughout the country, I instruct online grief-writing classes--Writing the Heartache--and design and market remembrance cards. As my mum son Daniel's departure in 1997, I have written articles about dealing with grief. Many of these might be read in the Open to Hope website at http://www.opentohope.com. Make sure you visit my site in http://www.alicewisler.com and my sites: http://www.alicewisler.blogspot.com/ along with http://www.writingtheheartache.blogspot.com/

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