I am pleased to be included in a series of webinars for educators along with talented authors who have writtennovels about Holodomor. These webinars are being presented by HREC (Holodomor Research and Education Consortium). The presentation of these works assists educators in their teachings of this terrible famine and the interviews by the authors present a personal view of why and how the works are relevant. The webinars can be accessed by any who are interested at www.education.holodomor.ca/webinars90th
Ukraine 1928. Stalin has risen to power and started to implement plans that will change the country forever. Inspired by a family photo, 'The Photograph' centers on a farewell party and a family divided. There are those who will stay, and those who will leave. What happens to those who stay is written in the pages of history as the Holodomor, the Terror-Famine orchestrated by Stalin, responsible for the loss of millions of lives.
The Holodomor was one of the worst genocides in global history. In this historically accurate novel, the reader will see a family facing events on the ground level. Some members saw the impending doom, others were unprepared, undecided, or unmovable for too long. Experiencing the lives of victims and survivors during these dramatic times goes beyond the history books.
Kat Karpenko is pictured here in her Ukrainian blouse with the traditional Easter eggs known as pysanky.
In the scenic seaside town of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, Laura discovers love letters, dated 1918, in the closet of her grandmother’s house. She is driven by visitations from the resident spirit to write the story of the lovers, Emma and Andrew. Caught in the turbulent WW1 era, they were brought together in Halifax during the disastrous aftermath of the largest man-made explosion in history before Hiroshima. As turmoil threatens Laura’s failing marriage, and a new love emerges, hauntings become more ominous. The question she still needs to answer is - why is the ghost dominating her life? When mysteries unravel, discoveries lead to an illumination of the past, a transformation of her present and a future with a new twist.
GET IT ON AMAZONBorn in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Kat has returned after spending most of her life in Nova Scotia where she worked in the Office of External Affairs at Dalhousie University until 2002. Now retired, she spends winters in Mazatlán, Mexico pursuing a writing career that was on hold while employed at the university. Previously involved in journalism and technical writing she has resumed her love of creative writing with short stories and has published her first ebook on amazon called “Emma’s Ghost” which originally started as a short story. See her Facebook author’s page to see more details about this historical romance/mystery which takes place in Mahone Bay and Halifax, Nova Scotia: https://www.facebook.com/authorkatkarpenko/
Kat brings her interest in history into her writing as well as observations of living in a different culture. She is grateful to her writing group in Mazatlán for their encouragement, critiques and inspiring writing skills.