Nora Ephron, Ernest Hemingway, Ursula LeGuin, Lewis Carroll, Anne Tyler, Tennessee Williams, Charlotte Bronte, John Steinbeck

Sitting up and placing my two feet firmly on the floor. With my eyes wide open squinting at the morning sun and thanking God that I am still alive. Most important of all I am enamored as to what each new day has in store for me.

Quite simply by searching through the various e-book data bases such as Smashwords, Amazon, Books-A-Million etc.

My desk is always littered with an array of papers and posted notes.

Growing up in an orphanage in East-Germany based on the Israeli Kibbutz system I identified with both the ‘Diary of Ann Frank’ and Charles Dickens ‘Oliver Twist’. One of my great uncles apparently fought in the Spanish Civil war, therefore Ernest Hemingway ‘s For whom the whom the Bell tolls’ held fascination for me. J.D. Salinger’s ‘Catch her in the Rye’ was required reading for any red blooded freshman in the 1960s. Lastly Ken Kasey’s ‘One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ brought home the barbaric practices that I witnessed doing my internship in a psychiatric ward in the early 1970s.

There are two - number one is the Amazon Kindle Fire 7 and the Apple IPad 3

I am a rather late convert to penning a story. Most of my professional career was spent in grant and proposal writing. A couple of writing courses and joining the local authors club contributed to writing my book.

Most of the Beta-Readers have asked me for the squeal to 'Lois Chronicles of a German Nurse 1945'. I have been considering this and the outline is nearly done.

Actually it was not a story, but a poem honoring my grandfather's 55th birthday. At the time I was eleven years old.

The cover design needs to capture the essence of the book and in "Lois Chronicles of a German Nurse 1945" I was successful in fulfilling this expectation.

My reading tastes are quite eclectic.For pleasure I will read Science Fiction, Fantasy, Old Classics, Mysteries and War Stories just to name a few.