Annette Langer shares a wide spectrum of topics based on her own life experiences, frequently using humor to tell her stories and convey her message. She’s able to find the funny side of even the most serious issues at times, often poking good-natured fun at herself to make her point.

Her subject matter may detail how she overcame a serious brain injury from a head-on automobile accident or how she coped with breast cancer, or how she has been able to travel the world, visiting all seven continents. Whatever her topic, whatever her challenge (and yes, travel oftentimes can be a challenge), her stories show how she has used humor to deal with it and how she prevailed.

Her philosophy is simple: the world is your oyster—go make a pearl! She shows readers they too have the ability to create their own life treasures, their “pearls,” by recognizing the tools and refocusing their energy on the positives that life has provided them.

Click here for reader reviews and detailed descriptions of Annette Langer's full-length books, Healing through Humor: Change Your Focus, Change Your Life! and A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to the World: Diary of a Fearless Travel Agent, available in both print and e-book formats.

Her shorter works have appeared in several anthologies, including the Livermore Wine Country Literary Harvest; O'Brien's Literary Speculator Bright Beginnings; Voices of the Valley, First Press; and the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.  

Annette Langer also frequently contributes articles and blog postings to FoxandQuill.com and Tri-ValleyWriters.org. Click on these links for a sampling of her work. She is an active charter member of the Tri-Valley Branch of the 100-year-old California Writers Club and serves on many of its committees.

Originally from Chicago, she spent a rewarding career in a variety of Federal Government jobs from court reporter to office manager before taking an early retirement. She went back to school then, trained for her “life after,” and became a travel agent, work she enjoyed for many years. Needless to say, she didn’t have the typical writer background. But the attention to detail and the analytical, exploratory nature of her duties, combined with her life experiences as a cancer survivor, world traveler, and travel agent, have inspired the content of much of her writing.

          


Healing through Humor: Change Your Focus, Change Your Life! has been praised by reviewers and readers alike for its humorous, yet insightful, common-sense approach to self-help and staying positive when facing obstacles and setbacks.

Annette Langer sprinkles doses of self-denigrating humor into her inspirational stories about her various medical mishaps and maladies from brain injury to breast cancer. But her stories also offer sage advice, encouragement, and coping techniques to anyone trying to heal from serious injury, illness, or any challenge in life. You'll discover many productive ways to adapt her optimistic outlook to develop your own system of positive thinking.

Annette Langer has created just the right "portable support group" a person needs to get through hard times with her easy-to-read, sometimes laugh-out-loud, book.

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A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to the World: Diary of a Fearless Travel Agent takes the reader along on Annette Langer's lifetime of travels to all seven continents. 

Humor plays a prominent role in her stories once again, but she also details many unusual and, at times, sobering situations in which she's found herself. You'll shake your head over such bizarre experiences as being held hostage in a workers' strike in Tahiti or managing to sleep through an earthquake in Peru!
 
Annette balances her tales of adventure with a multitude of funny stories, as well, displaying her characteristic positive outlook when facing challenges. Whether you're an armchair traveler or an experienced explorer, this book has something for everyone. Find out for yourself!

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