About — Valerie Ihsan, Author

Valerie Ihsan is the author of You Can’t Dance a Lie: A Memoir of Stepping into My Truth; The Scent of Apple Tea; and Smell the Blue Sky: Young, Pregnant, and Widowed, winner of a B.R.A.G. Medallion for Top Indie-Published Books. She co-chaired the Eugene Chapter of Willamette Writers for ten years; and podcasts, coaches, and edits for authors. She's served in the United States Army, owns land in Costa Rica, and lives with her husband and three dogs in Springfield, Oregon. She loves chocolate, cheese, and dogs.

What People Are Saying

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Her writing is raw, emotional and you get swept up in the characters and what's going on in their relationships.
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The rich characters combined with the all too real reactions made me wonder if this were a true story. An excellent job on a difficult subject.
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Whatever else I was doing, I couldn’t wait to get back to this book, and now that I have finished reading it, I miss it.
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Outstanding story of a mother daughter relationship …
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Happiness must include a dog.

Awards I’ve Won

B.R.A.G. Medallion for Top Self-Published Books