Donna Mebane author of Tomorrow Comes on How to balance mourning and living

Any moment we can be painfully reminded that none of us is immune from loss.

Perhaps the worst nightmare of any parent is the loss of a child.  Thankfully this happens to a comparative few parents, but all parents feel for them, and quietly wonder how we could ever deal with it. Donna Mebane(Mebbin) found a passion for writing through her battle with the loss of her daughter.   

Based on a true story of love and family, grief and joy, Tomorrow Comes (Starshine Galaxy, 2014) is inspired by the sudden and unexpected death of author Donna Mebane’s own daughter, Emma. Donna breathes vitality and warmth into Emma’s character, and you’ll find yourself rooting for Emma as she learns to navigate her new world with courage,humor, and an indomitable spirit.

Tomorrow Comes is a daring coming-of-age book – the first in a new series – in which an ordinary teenager must come to terms with her own mortality, the loss of all she once knew, and an other-worldly set of rules. The results are dark and uplifting, heart-breaking and humorous, poignant and poetic.

Donna Mebane grew up wanting to be two things: a mother and a writer. She became a mom after the birth of her first child, Jason. She became a writer after the death of her youngest child, Emma She calls Tomorrow Comes a work of “reality fiction” because it captures the reality of grief that family and friends endured after Emma died at the same time that it creates an enchanting fictional world of AFTER where Emma can continue to be herself.