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Amanda Rose Adams

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in Rapid City, South Dakota, The United States
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Amanda Rose Adams is disturbed by Goodreads "date of death" selector on her author configuration page, but she understands the point of it. Despite frequent accusations of being "deep," Amanda is actually pretty funny, or at least she hopes she is.

Adams sense of mortality began when her father died at the young age of 48 and deepened when her best friend Mary died at 25. Thinking the worst was behind her, Amanda was devastated when her much desired first child, Liam, was diagnosed inutero with a several lethal heart defects.

Amanda and her husband Jim didn't give up on Liam, and their amazing fight through twelve heart surgeries is documented in Adams first book Heart Warriors, A Family Faces Congenital Heart Disease.

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Heart Warriors comes out in a month plus a few days. I'm so excited to see what happens, where the book goes, what people think about it.

Writing a book is nothing like I thought it would be, and finding a publisher was another thing altogether. I started Heart Warriors under the title Informed Consent in January, 2010. I finished it in August of the same year. Then I spent months with fifty beta r Read more of this blog post »
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“Surviving your child means moving ever forward away from the time when the person you loved more than you thought you were capable of loving was real and living in this world, and watching that vivid light fade to a darkness that leaves you permanently cold.”
Amanda Rose Adams, Heart Warriors: A Family Faces Congenital Heart Disease

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