Hands of Gold capitalizes on Roni Robbins' nearly four decades as a published writer: a staff reporter for daily and weekly newspapers; a freelancer for national, regional, and digital publications. She is currently a freelance reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Medscape/WebMD, where she was previously an editor after serving as associate editor of the Atlanta Jewish Times. Robbins' articles have appeared in The Huffington Post, Forbes, the New York Daily News, Adweek, WebMD and Healthline. She was a staff writer for Florida Today/USA Today, The Birmingham News and the Atlanta Business Chronicle/American City Business Journals. She also wrote for Mother Nature Network, Daily Report/American Lawyer Media; The Forward, FromTheGrapevine, and Hadassah magazine, among others. In addition to major CEOs and politicians, she's interviewed such celebrities as Wolf Blitzer, Andy Gibb, Hank Aaron, and Usher. Hands of Gold won the 2023 International Book Awards for multicultural fiction and the 2023 Global Book Awards gold medal for biographical-survival. The novel was a finalist in the 2024 American Legacy Awards for multicultural fiction, earning a 5-star rating in the 2023 Readers' Choice Book Awards, best adult book, and was a finalist in the 2022 American Fiction Awards, family saga. It was also a quarterfinalist for historical fiction in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. In addition to the fiction awards, Robbins won three Simon Rockower Awards for Jewish journalism, including an investigative piece about Jewish seniors who feel "Out of Touch" in nursing homes. Hands of Gold begins and ends in a nursing home. Her other newswriting awards come from the American Society of Business Publication Editors, The State Bar of Georgia, the Alabama Associated Press, and the South Carolina Press Association. Hands of Gold was released in February 2022 by Amsterdam Publishers, the largest European producer of Holocaust memoirs. Author of Hands of Gold: One Man's Quest to Find the Silver Lining in Misfortune Website Book: Hands of Gold: One Man's Quest

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