THERE IS A FREE KINDLE BOOK GIVEAWAY OF SIGGY'S JUST RELEASED BOOK, "I Once Had a Farm in Ireland" TO THE FIRST PERSON WHO CORRECTLY ANSWERS THIS QUESTION: What is "Bonham"? (pronounced "bonnef"). HINT: CHECK OUT THE BOOK'S COVER BELOW. Provide your answer in Comments below or send it to jroseman@cox.net by June 10. Be sure to supply your email address.
Educated in Germany with a Master's Degree in English, Siggy Buckley lived in Ireland for over 15 years, first teaching at the University of Limerick as an adjunct professor, while building up an organic farm. She later ran her own businesses in Dublin before coming to the USA in 2003. In 2005, Siggy married an American and pursued her life-long dream of writing.
Contact Information
Website/Blog: www.NextTimeLucky.com; www.SiggyBuckley.blogspot.com
Email: Hernibs1@comcast.net (for contact purposes only)
Amazon author page: http://www.amazon.com/Siggy-Buckley/e/B004N1FV9W
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SiggyBuckley
Twitter: @Hernibs
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4496894.Siggy_Buckley
Publication History
Memoirs:
Next Time Lucky: Lessons of a Matchmaker (self-published with Createspace 2011)
Memoirs:
Next Time Lucky: Lessons of a Matchmaker (self-published with Createspace 2011)
Next Time Lucky:
How to Find your Mr. Right, 2nd extended edition (self-published with
Lightning source/Ingram) 2014
I Once had a
farm in Ireland: Living the Organic Lifestyle (self-published May/June 2015, Lightning Source) and
all books are on Kindle too.
Short Stories
There is No
Going Back (Selfpublished 2014)
Kindle edition
Mother Knows
Best (Selfpublished
2014) Kindle edition
Poems
Special K, published on Akashicbooks.com
Spreecast
blog talk radio: It
Matters: on Home Swapping
Siggy
Buckley appeared several times on local NPR
with Melissa Ross’ First Coast Connect
and On First Coast Living (Local TV ─
NBC) and had numerous interviews on blog talk radio. Her experience as a former
Irish matchmaker makes her a welcome guest for local paper interviews. She also
wrote articles for www.Opednews.com and www.Americanchronicles.com.
I Once had a Farm in Ireland:
Living the Organic Lifestyle
Author: Siggy Buckley
Cover: Tayyana Bano
Genre: Memoir
ASIN: B00WVMQ3G0 Ebook $2.99
ISBN: 9781943274659 ; tradepaper
pp.2 40 ; 5.5.X 8.25
List price: $12.80
Available from Amazon.com
About the book:
A wheelbarrow, a cable drum,
gardening tools, and a pickaxe are unusual items on a wedding registry. They
are what Mac and Siggy, a German professional couple, need to fulfill their
dream of organic gardening. When Chernobyl blows up a few years later, they are
scared enough to undertake fundamental changes in the lives of their young
family to seek a simpler and healthier lifestyle in an unspoiled country.
They buy a farm in Tipperary,
Ireland. They give up their jobs, friends and home to raise their children in
an unpolluted environment. Although Siggy shares her husband’s environmental
convictions, she would prefer a warmer climate, maybe an olive farm in Tuscany.
A period of intense learning and
acquiring new skills follows: how to raise chickens, pluck geese, breed cattle
and sheep, and how to grow all kinds of vegetables. Soon they find out that
farming means a never ending workload. They almost kill themselves ─and each
other─ to produce healthy food.
I Once Had a Farm in Ireland not only gives advice for budding organic gardeners but it is also the story of a woman who sacrifices her own ideals for the sake of her family until she discovers her own dreams.
Endorsement:
“As the descendant of
central Virginia agricultural families, I relate to the candor of Siggy
Buckley's words - "For almost ten years, we nearly killed ourselves — and
each other! — producing healthy food." Buckley's book I Once Had a
Farm in Ireland: Living the Organic Lifestyle is a 'must read'
for any one who considers or views modern day homesteading as idyllic. For,
enabling an organic life-style as Siggy found, can be an all consuming life
altering experience. ---- Sylvia Hoehns Wright, an eco-advocate,
challenges all to 'Move from eco-weak to eco-chic - green life's garden, one
scoop at a time!”
Sylvia Hoehns
Wright is a nationally recognized eco-advocate,
contributing writer and communications specialist; in her spare time she
is a passionate historian and member of the American League of Pen Women.(www.NLAPW.org). To learn more
about Wright’s eco-legacy: Wright's eco advocacy, visit web
site www.TheWrightScoop.com
Excerpt: "So what was I doing on
an Irish farm? I was a German city girl and a high school teacher. My
then-husband — let’s call him Mac — was a CPA and accountant with a legal
background and also German. We had strong leanings towards the Green party,
sympathized with most environmental movements; we were both scared by news of
deteriorating environmental conditions all around us at a time when we started
a family. We cared about what was in our food, worried about the poison of the
day, food additives, E-numbers, growth promoters, and chemicals — you name it,
the whole shebang. That’s what a lot of German people did at the time, in the
eighties. Like so many others, our awareness about the environment had been
given a jumpstart by the nuclear disaster around Chernobyl and we were downwind.
We
had gone green as far as we possibly could. We had been members of Greenpeace
and environmental activists for years. How much more can you do as an
individual to achieve your goal of a healthy lifestyle? Escape to a remote
island?"
www.SiggyBuckley.blogspot.com
A: A German city family searches for a healthier lifestyle in an unpolluted country, Ireland, and what they found: You cannot live somebody else's dream.
~ QUESTION AND ANSWER ~
Q: Siggy, what do you mean when you say I Once Had a Farm in Ireland is partly "the story of a woman who sacrifices her own ideals for the sake of her family until she discovers her own dreams"?A: A German city family searches for a healthier lifestyle in an unpolluted country, Ireland, and what they found: You cannot live somebody else's dream.
Siggy, thank you for being my guest, and one of my most interesting and adventurous visitors. Much success with your new book!
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