Happy New Year to all my friends, family, and readers! I hope you all had a joyful and safe New Year’s Eve.
My first big news of 2025 is that my newest family history novel will be released at the end of January just thirty days from now. It’s titled Simon’s Story and was inspired by the story of my three-times great-grandfather’s younger brother Simon Goldschmidt. Although Simon’s life was the spark that led me to write this novel, the book itself is fiction wrapped around the skeleton of Simon’s life.
As described on Amazon, “Simon … came to the United States from Germany, a poor Jewish man whose first wife had died, leaving him with young children. After he remarried, he and his new wife and the children came to the United States. But Simon had a secret that he kept from his children. His daughter Hannah struggled all her life to understand her mysterious and aloof father. Why was he so cold, so withdrawn? What made him the way he was?”
The book is available for pre-order on Kindle now and you can find the link here. The paperback version will also be sold on Amazon and will be available on January 31, 2025.
I hope you will consider reading Simon’s Story, and if you enjoy it, please let me know and also please leave a review on Amazon.

Wonderful way to start the new year!
Good luck- and you know we will read it!
Mark
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Thanks, Mark! And happy new year to you and all of yours!
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Happy New Year, Amy! And congratulations on your new book. Look forward to reading it.
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Thanks so much, Carl! And happy new year!
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How wonderful! You are an inspiration! I might one day write a book from my research!!!
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Thanks, Ellen!
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Happy New Year!!! and congrats on the release of your latest book!!!
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Thanks, Teresa!
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Happy New Year, Amy. Congratulations on your newest book.
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Thanks, Cathy!
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Thanks, GP!
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Thanks Amy and I’ll order it.
Sally
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Thanks so much, Sally!
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Happy New Year, Amy! I will have a look at your novel.
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Thank you, Peter!
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Congratulations! How exciting, Amy. I’ve preordered the kindle version. Looking forward to reading it.😊💕
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Thank you so much, Eilene!
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Wow Amy, where do you find the time to write this? Kudos to you! I shall be ordering from Amazon. Happy New Year.
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Thank you so much, Shirley!
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Woohoo!!! This is fabulous news, Amy! I’m so excited–for myself and for you :). OK, going to preorder now!!!! Congratulations!!!
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Thanks so much, Luanne!
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I hope you’re getting lots of preorders!
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Just a few—but I need to do more PR…I am TERRIBLE at it.
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Yeah, it’s really hard. You need to directly post (not a blog post) on your FB wall and also FB groups, as well as any other social media you can do.
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Will do. Thanks!
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Congratulations, Amy – I look forward to reading it!
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Thanks, Debi!
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Will it be available anywhere other than Amazon? Will I be able to download it to my iPad?
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No, it is being sold exclusively by Amazon. I assume it can be downtown an iPad, but I don’t have one so haven’t tried.
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