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Kirkus Pins a Star on My Book

by Alison Garwood-Jones
Kirkus Pins a Star on My Book
  Getting the word out about an independently published book takes persistence & the forward lean of a battering ram. It also takes a set of c...
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Finding Your Mother's Spice Tins

by Alison Garwood-Jones
Finding Your Mother's Spice Tins
In 2021, Benjamin Dreyer, the former managing editor and copy chief at Random House, wrote a beautiful piece for his Substack newsletter. “The Fi...
Posted in Books for Orphaned Adults, Books for Orphaned Adults on Mother's Day, Books on Grief, Books on Losing Your Parents, Elisabeth Kubler Ross, fa, family, Family and Relationships, Fatherless, Fatherless adults, Graphic Novel, Graphic novel on grief, Graphic Novel on Grief for Orphaned Adults, Graphic Novels on Grief, Grief And Loss, Grief Resources, Grief Support, How to get through Mother's Day without a mother, Living without parents, Losing your parents, Managing Grief, Mother's Day Gift Ideas, Motherless, Motherless adults, Mothers Day, Orphaned Adults, Orphaned In Adulthood, Parental loss, Pets and Grief

What is Your Grief Story?

by Alison Garwood-Jones
I Miss My Mommy, the book for orphaned adults
I Miss My Mommy takes you right to the heart of the five stages of grief through 150 portraits, some grim, some funny, but all relatable.The ...
Posted in Elisabeth Kubler Ross, Family and, Family and Relationships, Famly, Fatherless, Five Stages of Grief, Graphic Nov, Graphic Novel, Graphic novel on grief, Graphic Novel on Grief for Orphaned Adults, Grief And Loss, Grief Journey, Grief Quotes, Grief Resources, Grief Support, Mother's Day Gift Ideas, Motherless, Mothers Day, Orphaned Adults, Orphaned In Adulthood, Parental Death, Picture Book

"I Miss My Mommy" was on TV!

by Alison Garwood-Jones
"I Miss My Mommy" was on TV!
When Carla Lucchetta and the crew from The Agenda with Steve Paikin left my home, after an afternoon talking about grief and deceased parents, I f...
Posted in Books on Grief, family, Family and Relationships, Graphic novel on grief, Grief, Grief Resources, Grief Support, Managing Grief, Motherless adults, MothersDay, Orphaned Adults, Parental loss, ParentalDeath, The Five Stages of Grief

Grief and Male Friendships

by Alison Garwood-Jones
Grief and Male Friendships
I’m at the start of a book tour for my graphic novel, I Miss my Mommy, and I’ve been glad to see as many men as women reaching out to me to share w...
Posted in Books, Books on Grief, Books on parental grief, family, Family and Relationships, Fatherless, Fatherless adults, Five Stages of Grief, Graphic novel on grief, Graphic Novel on Grief for Orphaned Adults, Graphic Novels on Grief, Grief, Grief Resources, Grief Support, illustration, Living without parents, Managing Grief, Orphaned Adults, The Five Stages of Grief

"I Miss My Mommy" - What Readers Are Saying

by Alison Garwood-Jones
Cover of I Miss My Mommy by Alison Garwood-Jones
This is my time to say thank you to the folks who read the advance reader copy of I MISS MY MOMMY, my new picture book for big people without pare...
Posted in Books on Grief, Books on parental grief, family, Family and Relationships, Fatherless, Fatherless adults, Five Stages of Grief, Graphic novel on grief, Graphic Novel on Grief for Orphaned Adults, Graphic Novels on Grief, Grief, Grief Resources, Grief Support, GriefAndLoss, GriefJourney, GriefQuotes, Managing Grief, Motherless, Motherless adults, MothersDay, Orphaned Adults, The Five Stages of Grief

I Miss My Mommy: a picture book to help orphaned adults through grief

by Alison Garwood-Jones
I Miss My Mommy: a picture book to help orphaned adults through grief
All of us will have to do life without our parents at some point. I decided to write and illustrate a book to shows what grief looks like. I Miss My Mommy is the world's first picture book for big people without parents.
Posted in Books, Books on parental grief, Fatherless adults, Five Stages of Grief, Graphic novel on grief, Grief Support, Motherless adults, Orphaned Adults, Parental loss