Betsy Graziani Fasbinder

About The Author

Betsy Graziani Fasbinder explores the unending complications of people living, working, and loving one another.  As a practicing therapist for more than twenty years, she has been witness to the heartbreak, healing, and heroism of people from all walks of life.  She strives to create stories that bring the emotional truths she’s experienced and observed to the pages in all of her writing. Betsy has been awarded the Floyd Salas Award for Fiction, and has been honored with a Jack London award and two East of Eden awards for both fiction and memoir pieces.  Four of her works have been produced as Readers’ Theater in the historic Nevada Theater in Nevada City, California.  She is the co-producer of The Women’s Writing Salon in Nevada County. Fire & Water is her first novel. Betsy lives nestled in the soft hills of Marin County, California with her husband, one son on the launch pad, and one out on his own in a neighboring town.

Books by Betsy Graziani Fasbinder

Filling Her Shoes

A Memoir of an Inherited Family

By Betsy Graziani Fasbinder
On the day that she decided to marry a widower—also a long-time friend—Betsy Graziani Fasbinder knew that she wasn’t only gaining a husband, she was inheriting a son. Unlike many stepmothers, Betsy didn’t have to struggle with an ex, or court battles, or the weekend shuffle between houses—but she...
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Fire & Water

A Suspense-filled Story of Art, Love, Passion, and Madness

By Betsy Graziani Fasbinder
Only in the glaring light of hindsight does pediatric surgeon Kate Murphy understand that she was groomed for the path she’s taken. Raised by a widowed dad and a misshapen, sometimes comical trio of parental surrogates from Murphy’s Pub, her father’s Irish bar in San Francisco, Kate has never und...
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