Nancy Orlando has been writing since she was a little girl but did not complete and publish her first book until she was 75 years old. Since then she has teamed up with illustrator, Debbi Kern. They now have four delightful children's books on the market. The author/illustrator duo has readings and signings at schools and libraries.
Orlando's first book, Everyone's Child, is a memoir of her childhood during WWII. It follows the timeline of the war and offers a social history of the war years and how the lives of children were affected. Her most recent book, Life begins at Seventy-Five, is a memoir about family and life's challenges. She tells of losing three husbands, two to cancer, during a full active life, controlled by her perceived ideas about her obligations. She realizes mistakes were made to meet those obligations by doing whatever was necessary to keep those in her care from knowing there was anything to worry about. Maybe the mistakes were a good thing.
Mistakes and all, she has arrived at a place in her life, filled with comfort and peace. She is in control and able to meet all challenges by being sure of herself, her talent and her ability to make good decisions.
Current friends see her as a bit forward, expressing her opinions and pointing out the flaws in the world around her. There is great contrast between the "go along" unassuming person she was before "Seventy-Five" and the new person, forged out of years of fear, calamity, desperation and hope.........always hope.
One by one, she has taken her books from print on demand publishers and published them herself under Nancy Orlando Books. New titles are being prepared for publishing and more are planned for the future.
