Showcase of All That Was Left Unsaid and a Giveaway with TWO (2) US winners of a $20 Amazon.com Gift Card

ALL THAT WAS LEFT UNSAID

by Danielle Dragona

September 28 - October 23, 2026 

Virtual Book Tour

Synopsis:

Secrets. Betrayal. And the woman left to pick up the pieces.

At seventy, Katrina Johnson thought she understood the shape of her life. She was a devoted wife, a mother who did her best, and the keeper of a Victorian farmhouse that had held her family’s joys and sorrows for generations. Then her husband dies and everything she believed about her marriage begins to unravel.

As grief gives way to long-buried secrets, Katrina faces a devastating medical diagnosis, mounting financial pressure, and the very real possibility of losing the home that defines her past. Old fractures in her family deepen. Her relationship with her daughter remains painfully distant, while her son, caught between loyalty and resentment, attempts to hold what little remains together.

When Katrina is forced to rent out rooms in her farmhouse, the presence of a young tenant unsettles her in ways she can’t ignore, awakening memories and betrayals she thought she had survived that now refuse to stay buried. Katrina now must confront the cost of the choices she made to preserve her marriage.

With the past pressing relentlessly into the present, Katrina must face the life she built through silence and sacrifice and the parts of herself she left behind. She must decide whether reclaiming herself requires embracing the very wounds that shaped her.

Tender, reflective, and emotionally resonant, this novel explores love, betrayal, identity, and the quiet courage it takes to begin again. It asks a haunting question at the heart of many lives: when so much has been lost, is it still possible to choose yourself?

Praise for All That Was Left Unsaid:

"Through an emotionally engaging plot and nuanced characters, Danielle Dragona’s All That Was Left Unsaid elegantly explores the process of discovering the person you want to be and figuring out how to get there."
~ IndieReader Approved Review

"In All That Was Left Unsaid, Danielle Dragona has created complex characters involved in fragile relationships. The plot is intensely charged, and a couple of bombshells are dropped, which threaten to destroy these relationships. The author has a way with words as well, identifying old age as the evening of life and the bucket list as the Love List. This story is about nurturing and valuing all our relationships, no matter their source.""
~ Donna Stevenson, Readers' Favorite ★★★★★ Five-Star Review

"All That was Left Unsaid is a poignant, powerful novel, exploring heartfelt, realistic issues. Readers will connect with the characters and their intense emotional journeys, finding the story both heartbreaking and beautiful, yet ultimately uplifting. Danielle Dragona’s lyrical style will appeal to fans of Anita Shreve and Jodi Picoult. An outstanding debut!"
~ Valerie Biel, award-winning author of Haven and Beyond the Cemetery Gate

"All That Was Left Unsaid by Danielle Dragona is a heartfelt story. The book was beautifully written, and the author handled sensitive topics with great care. I enjoyed reading the book and found myself pondering over it."
~ Alma Boucher, Readers' Favorite ★★★★★ Five-Star Review

"... the author, takes you on a heart wrenching yet heartwarming ride through the main character's journey of self discovery and self healing. The book will make you cry, will warm your heart and make you root for all the characters in her book. If you only read one book this year, I recommend reading this one because you wont regret it!"
~ Vered Cecilio

"This book is great! I couldn't put it down! Danielle really takes you along an emotional rollercoaster of Katrina's journey and has you feeling what Katrina is feeling. The character development throughout the book is beautiful and the twist at the end, amazing! I love when a story has a good twist! I highly recommend this story!"
~ Nicole Stallone

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Book Details:

Genre: Women's Fiction, Psychological Fiction
Published by: Book Publishing Plus
Publication Date: July 15, 2026
Number of Pages: 274
ISBN: 9798950388514
Book Links: Amazon | KindleUnlimited | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads | BookBub

Read an excerpt:

From Chapter 3...

At once, I’m transported back to the night when the image of what I thought was our perfect family erupted like a raging volcano. We were seated at our dinner table for Sam’s fifty-fifth birthday. The smell of freshly baked lasagna floated through the air like a scrumptious cloud atop our laughter, and the aroma of my spiced apple tea greeted my nose with its irresistible fragrance.

Up until a few months prior, Sam and I were having our fair share of marital issues as well as intermittent difficulties from his untreated PTSD that lingered on, so we decided to restore our love for each other to get our relationship back on track and inject some happiness back into our bond. Except for a few hiccups, which were to be expected, I truly believed we were on the path to regaining what we’d lost.

Filled with a renewed commitment to strengthening our marriage, I anticipated his birthday with such eagerness that year. To that end, I commissioned a surprise gift specially made just for him. I purchased a watch he had been ogling, and had it engraved with the words, “When I met you, time stopped,” with the date of our marriage underneath.

We sang Happy Birthday, and when I went to the counter to cut his birthday cake, instead of placing a slice on his plate, I positioned the box with the sparkling bow on it instead. With zeal, I requested he open it. He unwrapped the dazzling box, his robust hands deftly undoing the multicolored ribbons. As he revealed the treasure, his eyes lit up brighter than a star in a glittering night sky. When he read the engraving, a smile emerged like gold on his face. I fastened the watch on his wrist and kissed his lips, which tasted of red wine.

Just as our celebration was winding down, there was a knock at the door. I opened it with the plate in my hand that housed Sam’s precious present a short time before. A younger woman with luxuriously long brown curly hair and emerald green eyes was on the other side, wearing a little purple dress with sunflowers and white stiletto heels. When I gazed at Sam to discern who this woman could be, his eyes glazed over, and the blood drained from his face, rendering him as white as a ghost.

“Sam, who’s this?” I asked as my eyes searched his, my heart beating out of my chest.

“I’m so sorry, Katrina,” was all he could say, guilt and remorse plastering his face, mixing in one ugly heap.

“Sorry for what?” I gasped, but deep down I knew, and everything I thought was true crashed down around me like meteors striking at my heart.

“Tell her who I am,” the woman bellowed as she shoved herself into our home, the aroma of her cheap perfume gagging me.

“Gloria, what are you doing?” Sam moaned plaintively, and life as we knew it shattered all around us into irreparable pieces.

“You’ve been telling me you were going to leave for years. It’s just excuses after excuses. Be honest with your family. Be honest with yourself,” she shrieked, the veins bulging out of her neck in a fit of rage, her words punching me in the gut, knocking the wind out of me.

“How could you do this to me, Sam, to our family?” I howled as the glass plate that held bliss and love moments earlier slid out of my hand, crashing onto the floor into a million pieces like our life together. My body went numb. “I thought you loved me.”

“I do, Katrina,” he protested, but the words were hollow, and I felt nothing except ice and emptiness.

“You’re such a phony, Sam. He tells me how much he loves me all the time, and how he wants to leave you,” Gloria bellowed, spitting in my face.

Billy shot up out of his chair like a blazing rocket ship.

“Get the hell out my house you pathetic whore,” he screamed ominously, in a pitch I never heard before.

“I’m your father’s whore, and he loves every minute of it,” Gloria declared with a caustic snicker.

“Enough, Gloria,” Sam retorted viciously, his eyes ablaze with anger that his secret had been unleashed into the world.

“Don’t talk to me like I’m some submissive and docile woman with no backbone like you tell me she is,” she spewed, her perfectly manicured index finger pointing in my direction. “This is it, Sam. You either make up your mind, or I’m done, and this time I mean it. Oh, and happy birthday. I hope I made it a special one,” she screamed, slamming the door behind her.

My legs buckled, and I fell to my knees in despair, plummeting into the glass shards from the broken plate that sparkled like gems, cutting my skin as I tried to push myself back up. Tears streaked down my face like a raging waterfall. I couldn’t catch my breath. I was drowning, sinking into hell. Disbelief suffocated my brain, disorienting me as I realized what I was living before was a lie. Billy helped me to my feet as Sam sat motionless in his chair, his face expressionless and vacant, a stranger to me now.

In the months that followed, I realized that I was weak. I was submissive and docile. I couldn’t let go. Instead of hating him, I started to loathe myself for not being able to leave, for loving him so much that I was willing to accept the lies, the deceit, and the infidelity. I despised my powerlessness, and in turn, I detested myself.

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Excerpt from All That Was Left Unsaid by Danielle Dragona. Copyright 2026 by Danielle Porciello. Reproduced with permission from Danielle Dragona. All rights reserved.

Author Bio:

Danielle Dragona has always possessed a passion for the written word. As a child, she kept fledgling journals, but as she matured into young adulthood, the chronicles acquired a more complex narrative, dissecting feelings, beliefs, and working through challenging emotions originating in childhood while trying to find the meaning in it all.

Danielle is captivated by the human condition—riveted by its beauty even amidst chaos, tearing apart the messiness of existence to ultimately unearth the glimmering pearl. As an explorer of emotion, she continually works to uncover what lies beneath the surface in an unapologetically raw, real, and authentic manner.

When she’s not writing, Danielle enjoys travelling, exploring new places, historical sites, music of all kinds, spending time with her family and friends, and being a perpetual student of life. She has a degree in English literature from William Paterson University in Wayne, NJ and lives in Northern New Jersey with her husband and young son.

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Spotlight of Rough Cuts by Glenn R. Miller

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ROUGH CUTS

GLENN R. MILLER

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ALL INFORMATION IN THIS POST IS COURTESY OF JACKIE KARNETH | SENIOR PUBLICIST | BOOKS FORWARD

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Author’s satirical novel on censorship in the silent film era resonates with today’s book banning climate.

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September 29, 2026

Koehler Books

Historical Fiction

Humor/Satire

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ABOUT ROUGH CUTS:

It’s 1926 and the world of film is about to change forever. On the cusp of “talkies,” directors and actors fear their greatest days might soon be behind them.

Patrick J. Shepard, a director at the end of his career, has just completed his masterpiece, his vehicle for eternal fame. But there’s one problem: Ohio.

 

Harold Dawdry, the young, second-string minister at a small church in a corner of Ohio, has been appointed to the State Film Censorship Board.

He regards this appointment as his ticket to the power and relevance he desperately craves.

There is one director who has particularly rankled his delicate sensibilities: Patrick J. Shepard.

The minister feels Ohio is best served if Shepard makes drastic cuts to his final film. The silent era is about to get loud.

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An Interview with

Glenn Miller

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1. What inspired you to write “Rough Cuts”

My mother-in-law told me that she was going through her grandfather’s archives, which included original notecards of film edits that needed to be made by Hollywood studios. The fact that he, as a small-town Ohio minister, was instructing Hollywood directors and producers what needed to be changed in their films intrigued me, to say the least. The more I investigated this situation, the more I could see a story forming – a director trying to protect his “legacy” film going up against a minister/censor who sees his position as one of power.

2. How did you learn about the state censorship movement, and what was the research process like for you?

Once I committed myself to writing this book (humorous story behind that), I spent a week in Marietta, Ohio (my mother-in-law had donated the cards to the Marietta College archives), carefully examining these notecards and comparing the requested/demanded changes to the original films (where I could find them). In addition to that original research, I have gone over dozens of books which help explain that period in history, including an unintentionally amusing one from 1930, entitled “Censored: The Private Life of the Movie,” which, in great detail, describes the credentials of the individuals appointed to the various state censorship boards.

3. How did your career at NBC studios influence your portrayal of the director?

In addition to looking at creative censorship, I wanted “Rough Cuts” to be a love note to the world of artistic creation, specifically, cinema. Beyond the product itself, however, there is the element of teamwork that is required to create a film, a television show, or a corporate video. With that artistic teamwork come drama, challenges, disagreements, and, in many cases, deep friendships and relationships. That was an element that I wanted to hit upon with the director as he nears the completion of his final film and, as it turns out, his life. The scene in which he is walking through the empty studios on a Sunday morning is a recreation of a walk I took as I was leaving NBC, closing what I knew was a wonderful (8-year) chapter in my life. He is looking back on his product, but also, and perhaps more importantly, the friendships he made along the way.

4. “Doorman Wanted” solidified your satirical voice in fiction. How does “Rough Cuts” relate to, or diverge from, your signature style? What role does humor play in the book?

When I speak to book clubs or make presentations, I describe the humor in “Doorman Wanted” as “gentle,” but the humor in “Rough Cuts” has “sharper elbows.” So many readers and book club attendees tell me how much they love the gentleness and kindness in “Doorman Wanted,” which makes me slightly nervous for “Rough Cuts.” There is a different tone in “Rough Cuts” – it’s right there in the title, it’s a little rougher. Beyond looking at censorship, it also looks dead-on at hypocrisy, demonstrated, certainly, by the minister, but also, to a lesser degree, by the director. I regard humor as the “sugar” that makes the medicine go down. In “Doorman Wanted,” it was used as a means to examine our perceptions and misperceptions around wealth; in “Rough Cuts,” it looks at our impulses around censoring creative expression.

5. Why does arts censorship persist, and how do these events from the 1920s remain relevant to us, even 100 years later?

As long as there are people creatively expressing themselves, there will be others trying to shut them down. There is a vast gulf between somebody criticizing an artistic work and somebody trying to prevent others from watching or reading that artistic work. This is explored within “Rough Cuts.” I also would like to give context to the censorship of the 1910s and 1920s – it came out of America’s progressive movement of that era. State censors regarded their work as being consistent with meat inspections, imported goods inspections, etc. That is, they saw themselves as protecting end consumers. Initially, they proudly wore the title of “Censor.” That changed fairly quickly. We are currently living in an era in which censors are emboldened and mobilization around censorship efforts, specifically book banning, is made easier through social media and digital communications.

6. Do you believe that censorship in the arts will always exist in one form or another? 

Without a doubt.

7. How can book clubs get in touch with you, and what can they expect from a meeting with you?

Book clubs can reach out directly via the “Contact” button on my website (glenn-r-miller.com). I am happy to talk about plot points, my writing process, etc. Typically, a good time is had by all! Within the Twin Cities metro area, I will attend in person, if possible. I have also Zoomed numerous times with book clubs throughout the U.S.

8. What are you working on next?

Every book club I have attended (70+) have asked about a “Doorman” sequel, so, give ‘em what they want. I am about 3/4s of the way through my initial rough draft.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

GLENN R. MILLER: is the author of the critically acclaimed and award-winning novel “Doorman Wanted” which was named 2026 Plymouth Reads Book of the Year.

“Rough Cuts” is his second novel, forthcoming from Koehler Books.

Miller launched his professional career by working on television soap operas and game shows on the back lots of NBC Burbank.

He holds a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and has served as a CBS-affiliate news producer, public television producer, and creative director at production agencies within the Twin Cities.

Glenn and his wife live in Minneapolis, and are the parents of two grown sons.

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It's Monday!! What Are YOU Reading? - 9/28/2026

                                         

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I hope you had a great reading week.

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This is a weekly meme hosted by Kathryn at BOOK DATE!

Post the books completed, the books you are currently reading, and the books you hope to finish at some point.

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Books Completed:

THE CALAMITY CLUB by Kathryn Stockett - No review, but I finally took the plunge into this 600-page doorstop.  :)

Very good - great characters.

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COZY LITTLE CHRISTMAS by Rae Anne Thayne - review will be on October 29, 2026.

A sweet read with characters you will love.

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THE PIANO TEACHER OF MONTPARNASSE by Heather Morris - review will be on October 23, 2026.

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MISSING MOLLY by Natalie Barelli - review will be on October 21, 2026.

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THE DIARY AT THE IRISH ADOPTION HOUSE by Michelle Vernal - review will be on October 22, 2026.

A good read!!

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BAD GIRLS GO EVERYWHERE by Ellen Sherman - spotlight will be on October 16, 2026.

Too many antics by the main character that I couldn't connect with the storyline and main character.

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MURDER ON 34TH STREET by Mariah Fredericks - review will be on October 12, 2026.

A light, entertaining read about Macy's and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade - someone threatens to kill Santa.

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RED SEAL by Rosa Kwon Easton - review will be on October 8, 2026.

Historical fiction about Korea during their turmoil during WWII.

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THE STORY BAKER by Carsten Henn - review will be on October 13, 2026.

A very enjoyable, heartfelt read with characters that will stay with you.

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THE UNDERCOVER BOOKSHOP by Katherine Reay - review will be on October 7, 2026.

Very good - a delightful read with characters you would love to meet.

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THE MEMORY OF BORROWED BOOKS by Meg Anderson - review will be on October 6, 2026.

Ohhhh...this book is so good.  Don't miss it!!

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A DEADLY ENTANGLEMENT by Cathy Pegau - spotlight is in the book's title.

Not connecting with the storyline.

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BLUE JEAN SUMMER by Maggie Gates - review is in the book's title.

A cute read with cowboys!! :)

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THE BOOKSHOP WOMAN by Nanako Hanada - spotlight is in the book's title.

Wasn't connecting with me.

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I'LL BE WATCHING YOU by Allison Brennan - spotlight is in the book's title.

Disappointed - I normally like her books.

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Book Currently Reading:

THE FRIDAY BOOKSHOP by Sawako Natori - review will be on November 3, 2026.

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Books Up Next:

SUNFLOWER SEASON by Danica Nava - review will be on November 4, 2026.

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PEREGRINE HILL by Nina De Gramont - review will be on November 10, 2026.

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WHEN THEY FIND ME by Carter Wilson -  review will be on November 11, 2026.

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REVENG PLOT by Stephanie Wrobel - review will be on November 12.

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NORTH RIVER TO SLEEP HOLLOW by Jenny Gillespie - review will be on November 19, 2026.

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THE BOOKER REBELLION by Susan Palmer - review will be on November 20, 2026.

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ALL THE LITTLE SECRETS by May Cobb - review will be on November 21, 2026.

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MURDER UNABRIDGED by P. J. Nelson - review will be on December 1, 2026.

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THE MAGIC OF CHAMOMILE COTTAGE by Heather Webber - review will be on December 2, 2026.

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THE BUREAU OF UNKNOWN FATES by Gaëlle Nohant - review will be on December 8, 2026.

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RABBIT, RABBIT by Jennifer E. Smith - review will be on December 15, 2026.

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THEY ONLY FOUND HER by Emy McGuire - review will be on December 16, 2026.

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DARLING YOU'RE NEXT by Marlee Bush - review will be on January 5, 2027.

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TAKE BACK THE NIGHT by Heather Gudenkauf, Kaira Rouda, and Kimberly Belle - review will be on January 12, 2027.

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THE GOLDEN CHILD by Lucinda Berry - review will be on Janaury 13, 2027.

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BAD HONEYMOON by Jessie Garcia - review will be on January 19, 2027.

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SCREAM CITY by Hannah Norrissey - review will be on January 26, 2027.

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PLAY ME ONCE by Mary Desch - review will be on January 27, 2027.

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THE BOOKBINDER'S CODE by A. D. Bell - review will be on January 28, 2026.

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MARIA, MARIA by Jennifer Galvao - review will be on February 2, 2027.

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LIGHT THE WAY by Monica West - review will be on February 3, 2027.

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THE SOCIETY OF FORGOTTEN WIVES by Pam Jenoff - review will be on February 4, 2027.

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SOMEWHERE, SOMETHING INCREDIBLE by Susan Meissner - review will be on February 9, 2027.

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FIVE MORNINGS AT THE BOOKSHOP by Shea Ashdown - review will be on March 9, 2027.

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THE ENIGMAS by Emilia Hart - review will be on April 6, 2027.

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EMERALD LAKE by Nita Prose - review will be on April 7, 2027.

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