BDM History

For the past eight months, my head has been deep inside the book, writing, editing, researching and writing.  My average writing day is 11 hours. This is an incredible journey.  I just finished another chapter and I am about to embark on phase two of the book.  When I started writing the manuscript, I thought…

I was so dissapointed when my editor emailed me and said she could not look at my manuscript because she is moving.  That did not stop me from moving forward however.  I am determined to have the manuscript reviewed. 

I am SO excited!  I finished typing the manuscript into my computer, double  and triple checked it for grammer and spelling, then emailed it off to my editor!  I believe there is an untapped source of valuable information out there that no one has really addressed – and that is what life was like during…

The Landjahr (country service year) was a concept of the Hitler Youth and BDM – Bund Deutscher Maedel (League of German Girls), whose aim was to furnish voluntary agricultural assistance in Germany’s eastern provinces. The service was voluntary except in the case of university students who were obliged to perform their Landjahr (it was, in…

I just found this web site today entitled “Landjahr.”  Notice closely, the symbol on the front cover of the book on the web site and compare it with the cover of my mother’s book!  After 20 years I found what the meaning of this symbol is on the cover of my mother’s book “Land Jahr Seidorf.” …

I just received an email from a personal friend of mine who asked me to elaborate more on the book.  Twenty-one years ago, underneath the end table in my parents’ bedroom, I found a very strange hand-made book. The stained green hard cover has a red cloth emblem on the lower right hand corner. It…

Today was an incredible day!  I found an editor who has connections with a publisher in California!  My editor is guiding me as to the format to use to type the manuscript.  I am putting in over 9 hours a day working on the research and manuscript.  I should be finished within two weeks.  Once…

April 14, 2011 – Goal:  Looking for Literary Agents to help me publish my mother’s book “Landjahr Seidorf” Twenty years ago, underneath the end table in my parents’ bedroom, I found a very strange hand-made book. The stained green hard cover has a red cloth emblem on the lower right hand corner. It is bounded with a…