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Announcing… the By Light of Hidden Candles Audiobook!

July 24, 2019 by Daniella Levy Leave a Comment

You have no idea how long I’ve been dying to share this news!!! I am so excited to tell you that my publisher and I have signed a contract with MB Publishing granting them the rights to produce an audiobook of By Light of Hidden Candles. MB Publishing originally contacted Kasva Press to discuss the […]

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Coming Fall 2019: Disengagement

February 28, 2019 by Daniella Levy 7 Comments

photo of daniella levy with contract from Kasva Press

My next novel is scheduled for publication in November 2019!

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All Kinds of LtJ News!

October 29, 2018 by Daniella Levy Leave a Comment

Well, it’s not really news to those who follow my blog Letters to Josep, so if you’re subscribed to both lists, feel free to ignore this! Breaking Stereotypes & Bridging Differences: Daniella & Josep in Girona On October 14th, I got to live a crazy dream… We spoke about how our unlikely friendship was formed, […]

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Daniella & Josep in Girona!

October 4, 2018 by Daniella Levy Leave a Comment

Yesterday I announced some very exciting news on Letters to Josep, and I’m going to share it here as well! (Apologies to those who are seeing it twice… but you have to admit, it’s exciting enough to bear repeating!) Yep! I’m going to Catalonia in 10 days!!! And I’m dragging Josep into the spotlight to […]

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Blog Posts & Hidden Candles Discussion Guide

July 13, 2018 by Daniella Levy Leave a Comment

Hey there! I have a few things to share with you: Guest Post on Researching a Novel Last week, fellow author Hannah Ross hosted a guest post from me on her blog, Flight of Fantasy: How to Research Your Novel from the Comfort of Your Home, with Daniella Levy. Did you know that I did […]

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My Poem ‘Stardust’ Published by Poetica & More News

January 10, 2018 by Daniella Levy Leave a Comment

Right, so first of all, my poem Stardust was just published in the 2017 Mizmor L’David Anthology by Poetica Publishing. You can read or download the full anthology as a PDF on the Poetica website here; Stardust appears on page 51. An excerpt: i don’t have to be the brightest thread in the carpet or the […]

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My Poem “From the Graves of My Ancestors” Published in Stonecoast Review

December 27, 2017 by Daniella Levy Leave a Comment

I’m very pleased to tell you that my poem, From the Graves of My Ancestors, was published this month in the Stonecoast Review, a student-run literary journal based in Maine. The poem was inspired by a lecture by Dominique Tomasov, an activist and researcher who contacted me after stumbling across my article on antisemitism in Spain […]

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Hidden Candles Selected as #RBRT Award Finalist & Other Exciting News!

December 11, 2017 by Daniella Levy 2 Comments

Greetings, my lovely friends! I have a few exciting things to tell you: #RBRT Award Nomination! By Light of Hidden Candles received positive reviews from two reviewers on Rosie’s Book Review Team (Barb Taub and Olga Núñez Miret), and it was just selected as a finalist for the RBRT Awards in the category of Romance! […]

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Disengagement

“Brilliant and troubling…  Levy… has a deep understanding of the traumatic processes she writes about, and she is able to convey the heartache and disorientation in an engaging manner and with a sense of immediacy.” — Philip K. Jason, Washington Independent Review of Books “A thoroughly engaging novel, a quick but engrossing read… Levy’s writing […]

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    Sound on to hear a preview from my conversation with Rav Mike Feuer on The Jewish Story about my new
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    Yesterday, what is probably the loveliest, most touching "fan letter" I've ever received arrived in my inbox. A reader happened
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    After some COVID-related delays, including the narrator getting stuck in another state (!) and having to set up a whole
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    A message for our times, from The Rejection Survival Guide. Link to new post--"Hope in the Time of Coronavirus"--in bio.
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