Michele Citro, CEO of Edizioni Paguro proudly presents and takes part at the first book fair held in Portici with the collaboration of University of Napoli „Federico II“. Of course, my „La Cartiera“ joins this fair too!

Finally we made it, Dorothe and I!
Due to pandemic, it was not that easy for authors to held readings and being palpable for the public. Together we build a good team with our books, Dorothe is a historian and writes about middle-age topics, I’ve read two of her works and one is really amazing „Der steinige Weg der Wyborada (The rocky path of Wyborada“ – I always tell her to put filming rights on it! I’m sure we will do some more readings together – I looked in to the crystal ball!!

„Legends and mystical Women“ reading with Dorothe Zürcher @ the Cultural Club Wier Seisler, Inn St. Martin in Tafers (Canton Fribour-CH) – free entry, book sale on site.
www.wierseisler.ch Registrations via: info@gasthofstmartin.ch  Lovely thanks to Monique Baeriswyl!

It’s said, the mothers love to show off their sons – in my case I’m proud to show off my nephew! Once a year in Switzerland the children/kids accompany their parents or relatives to work to see, what work means and to offer them a starting position of their future plans. I’m honored having written about that in the journal „La Sorgente“! Many thanks goes to the new director Elisa Forte and In Memoriam of Nicola Conforte.

Once a year we meet and greet each other by doing some networking, it’s a good opportunity to watch out for some collaborations or projects. This time it was my turn to host the meeting in my hometown Aarau. The last two year wasn’t possible to meet up due to pandemic. I showed to my writing colleagues the castle, the old part of town and it’s beautiful paintings on gabled roofs from the 16th century. We ended up after lunch at the bookshop on the corner and the bookseller was very surprised to meet the bunch of authors, which books are there on the shelf! There are some common projects to come up this year!

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A vaccination called „BIG THANK YOU“as always to my family & close friends, and: Claudia Cammarata@ Cammarata WEBTV, Gianfranco Carozza, the late Nicola Ing Conforti, Karin Mayerhofer Dobler, Azadeh Eshaghi, Elisa Forte@LaSorgente, Corinne Heiniger,Marco Hutschenreuther@Spitalradio LuZ, Christian Imhof@qultur.ch, Monika Kocher, Giusy Mellace, the pupils@Primarschule Zofingen, Zaira Sellerio, Betty Tagliati, Delfina Carmelo Tommasini & last but not least my niece Seraina and my nephew Matteo for their inspiration !

„La Sorgente“ the worldwide magazine sent to Italian subscribers, has honored my review about the Swiss National Reading Day. The magazine is now directed by Elisa Forte and she set her fingerprint in a new layout. Sadly we heard the news by end of October the passing away of the former director Nicola Conforti. He’s wife just passed few months before and he often mourned about on the socials. Thanks from the bottom of my heart, Nicola – you gave me such a good opportunity with La Sorgente. May the Earth be the light to you and rest in peace.

Lovely thanks to the pupils of primary school Zofingen – you were amazing!

RIP Nicola – that’s how I would like to keep you in mind in your wonderful garden.

Radio moderator Marco Hutschenreuther works at the hospital Radio Luz in Lucerne (CH). He invited me via phone call for an interview and to talk about „E38“! He travelled vocally in the ears of the listeners and read from the first chapter of the book! It was a pleasure and fun to hear him and me airing. Regrettably it was not possible to visit him at the radio station, due to Covid-restrictions. It should be possible to hear the interview of about 10 minutes on www.radioluz.ch!

Once a year my employer offers me the opportunity to do a volunteering. I do this with great pleasure at primary school Zofingen (CH), as my niece and nephew are pupils there. I started two years ago as a fairy-tale auntie, last year it was not possible due to Covid-restrictions and this year I decided for a mini-workshop „How to write a book!“. The pupils are on a good way to read themselves, so I thought it would be better to explain and tell what it takes to write a story – this was very welcomed by the teachers. It’s still a big issue, that many kids can’t go to school, because they live in dire situations and their parents can’t afford the money for school and books. It’s still a big issue the illiteracy or dyslexia, which can be trained by a speech therapist. I wanted to encourage the kids, to read more than spending time with gaming on a computer or surfing the net. I told them, that all the „Bigs“ started as „Small“ and they got all the potential to develop their talent! It was really great fun in these classes! Thanks to all the pupils and teachers for welcoming me!