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Teri enjoys writing for children and adults. MOVING DAY her debut picture book came out in 2025. Her memoir, OUR LONG GOODBYE, A Daughter, a Father, a Best Friend and the Journey Through Alzheimer's, comes out 11/3/2026. She lives in Petaluma, CA.

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Teri enjoys writing for children and adults. MOVING DAY is her debut picture book.Her memoir, OUR LONG GOODBYE, A Daughter, a Father, a Best Friend and the Journey Through Alzheimer's, comes out 11/3/2026. Her background as a Clinical Social Worker influences her subjects and storylines with the hope of instilling hope, empathy, and kindness. Teri lives in Petaluma, CA, with her husband and her best friend, Hobie, the Goldendoodle. When she's not writing, you can find Teri rowing on the Petaluma River with her teammates.

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Teri enjoys writing for children and adults. MOVING DAY is her debut picture book. Her work as a Clinical Social Worker influences her story themes about LGBTQ, dementia, immigration, chronic illness, and dying. She hopes to instill empathy and kindness in her readers. Teri won the 2019 Creator of Diverse Works award from the San Francisco North and East Bay chapter of SCBWI. Her memoir, OUR LONG GOODBYE, A Daughter, a Father, a Best Friend and the Journey Through Alzheimer's, comes out 11/3/2026. She lives in Petaluma, CA, with her husband and her writing assistant, Hobie, a Goldendoodle. When she's not writing, Teri can be found rowing on the Petaluma River.

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Teri enjoys writing for children and adults. Her children’s picture book MOVING DAY, about a house resistant to moving, was published by Margaret Ferguson Books at Holiday House on March 11, 2025.​

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Her experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker influences many of her storylines, including LGBTQ issues, chronic illness, dementia, and grief. Teri's memoir, OUR LONG GOODBYE, A Daughter, a Father, a Best Friend and the Journey Through Alzheimer's, comes out 11/3/2026. It is a braided narrative about a daughter's anticipatory grief and a friendship's ultimate hurdle. With the sharing of lifetime stories, the daughter and her father's best friend of eighty years support each other through their mutual grief.​

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Teri lives in Petaluma, CA, with her husband and her best friend, Hobie, a Goldendoodle. When she's not writing, Teri can be found hiking or rowing on the Petaluma River with her teammates. 

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Teri enjoys writing for children and adults. Her children’s picture book MOVING DAY, about a house resistant to moving, was published by Margaret Ferguson Books at Holiday House on March 11, 2025.​

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Her experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker influences many of her storylines, such as LGBTQ, chronic illness, dementia, and grieving. She was awarded the 2019 Creator of Diverse Works by the San Francisco and North Bay Chapter of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. 

 

Teri's memoir, OUR LONG GOODBYE, A Daughter, a Father, a Best Friend and the Journey Through Alzheimer's, will be published by She Writes Press on 11/3/2026.  It is a braided narrative about a daughter's anticipatory grief and a friendship's ultimate hurdle. With the sharing of lifetime stories, the daughter and her father's best friend of eighty years support each other through their mutual grief.

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She is a member of SCBWI, The Association of Writers and Writing Programs, The Author’s Guild, and has attended numerous writing conferences.

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Teri lives in Petaluma, CA, with her husband and her best friend, Hobie, a Goldendoodle. When she's not writing, Teri can be found hiking or rowing on the Petaluma River with her teammates. 

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FUN FACTS:

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Teri’s writing assistant, Hobie, is a Goldendoodle. He lays at Teri’s feet under her reclaimed wood desk, with the cool hard floor pressed against his cheek. He prefers to be as close as possible, so Teri can easily reach down and pet him. Or better yet, provide a belly rub. As Teri reads her manuscripts out loud, if Hobie sighs, lays back down placing his paws over his ears, she knows he disapproves. But if sits up, tilts his head to the side and taps his tail she knows he approves.

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When Teri is not writing, she can be found hiking or rowing on the Petaluma River with her teammates.

 

CONTACT:

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Cell: 707.484.1606

Email: teridrobnick@me.com

Website: teridrobnick.com

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REPRESENTED BY:

 

Jen Newens

Senior Literary Manager

Martin Literary Management

415.845.5798

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BOOKS:

 

MOVING DAY 

By Teri Roche Drobnick

Illustrated by Jennifer Black Reinhart

Published by Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House

March 11, 2025

ISBN: 9780823452590

 

MOVING DAY is about a house that is resistant to moving. But when it sees its family in its new spot, it knows it’s right where it belongs.

 

This Victorian house isn’t eager to relocate to a new neighborhood in San Francisco. It feels a lug and a tug as it’s lifted onto a flatbed behind a truck. A police car leads the way, a crowd begins to form on the sidewalks, and children follow behind, ringing the bells on their bicycles. It’s just like a parade!

The house teeters and totters when it turns the first corner, and the crowd cheers when it makes it. Workers remove street signs and trim branches that are in the way. When the house comes to a steep hill, everyone holds their breath until it makes it safely to the bottom. But it isn’t until the house sees its family standing in its new spot that it realizes it’s right where it belongs—with them—and moving isn’t so bad after all.

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​This story was inspired by the 139-year-old San Francisco Victorian house that was relocated in 2021. Built in 1882, “The Englander House” was originally lit by gas and survived the famous 1906 earthquake. Instead of tearing down the home to build a planned condominium complex, the developer decided to move the 133-ton, eighty-foot-long building. It took almost eight years to plan the move, as fifteen city agencies had to be involved to move parking meters, traffic signs, and overhead utility lines; trim trees; and redirect traffic.

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OUR LONG GOODBYE, A Daughter, a Father, a Best Friend and the Journey Through Alzheimer’s

By Teri Roche Drobnick

Brooke Warner, Publisher

She Writes Press

shewritespress.com brooke (at) stablebookgroup (dot) com

Publication date: 11/3/2026​​

Distribution: Simon and Schuster​

ISBN# 979-8-89636-196-1

EISBN# 979-8-89636-197-8​

Caitlin Hamilton, Publicist

Caitlin Hamilton Marketing & Publicity

caitlinhamiltonmarketing.com, 

Caitlin Hamilton Summie, caitlin (at) caitlinhamiltonmarketing (dot) com

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Teri's memoir, OUR LONG GOODBYE, A Daughter, a Father, a Best Friend and the Journey Through Alzheimer’s will be published by She Writes Press, November 3, 2026. The story is a true labor of love, and she is pleased that it will be available to the world, helping others navigate the arduous journey of Alzheimer’s.

 

From the moment Teri Drobnick’s father is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she feels like he’s slipping away. As she grapples with an uncertain future and the steady erosion of his memory, Teri leans on Uncle Bob—her dad’s best friend of eighty years.

 

As Teri navigates the emotional limbo of caring with a parent with dementia, she and Uncle Bob, united by mutual grief, form a deeper bond from the stories he shares of his lifelong friendship with her father. Beginning with their boyhood during World War II, Uncle Bob recounts first dates, college at UC Berkeley, marriages, building a business, raising children, surviving loss. In the present, Teri confronts the anger, loneliness, and role reversal that accompany memory decline—but through tales of the past, she finds a way to reconnect with her father. 

 

With a narrative braided between past and present, Our Long Goodbye is a poignant love letter from a daughter to her father that explores anticipatory grief, enduring friendship, and the profound power of shared memory.

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