women in tech life coach Mandy Kubicek

What is life?

If you’re the kind of person who asks yourself this question – a learner, a grower, a squeeze-the-most-out-of-life person, you might love my books.

I Killed Mom and Other Lies: A Memoir of Early Loss

An overachiever (me!) with a long-dead mom remembers how to play.

“Mandy Kubicek is a sheer joy to read.” –Hope Edelman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Motherless Daughters and The Aftergrief

Learn more about this sad and hilarious memoir (Glad Panda Press, October 2023.)

Praise for my books

  • hope edelman the aftergrief

    “Mandy Kubicek’s work deftly explores both the intensity of life’s struggles and the lightness of its possibilities. She’s a sheer joy to read.”

    – Hope Edelman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Motherless Daughters and The Aftergrief

  • executive director dougy center

    “Mandy’s stellar writing, candor, and humor manages what many memoirs don’t—truth-telling without bashing the reader over the head with feel-good-isms. I can’t recommend it highly enough!”

    – Donna Schuurman, Executive Director Emeritus, Dougy Center: The National Grief Center for Children & Families

  • “For anyone who’s experienced the loss of a loved one as a child, this is a must read. I felt so validated in seeing my feelings and experiences echoed in Mandy’s. It really made me self-reflect on how I’ve processed (and not processed) grief throughout my life. The ending line floored me. I read it over-and-over when I finished while tears welled up.”

    – Matthew Brand

  • “A beautiful and honest look at the journey of depression. It is a portrait of how holding in your feelings can strangle you. I loved reading.”

    – Dixie Perkinson, actor and writer