Jody L Pritzl

After a corporate gig, Jody turned to her passion of writing stories of hard work that paid off. Jody's fifth book, Gold-Fated Family: J.J. Brown Husband of Unsinkable Margaret "Molly" Brown digs into the man married to a Titanic heroine. In the early years, J.J. and Margaret were a team. He, a hard-working mine manager, and she, a mother devoted to their children Lawrence and Helen. Having risen from poverty, J.J. and Margaret were unprepared for newspaper notoriety when he found gold and they moved to Denver, Colorado. For a time, their marriage worked until his penchant for secrecy and fear of death clashed with his wife’s desire to whirl and twirl through adventures, continents, and charities. And when the children were eager to exit the limelight, escaping the shadow of their millionaire father and socialite mother, a ship sank, thrusting Margaret into the national spotlight as “unsinkable.” The complex and drama-filled story of the Browns is backed by 821 endnotes that Jody culled from over 15,000 documents held at five different archive locations. . Jody's first book, Immigrants, Ornaments and Legacies-A Story of American Made Glass Christmas ornaments won a nonfiction award from The Colorado Authors League (CAL). In 2021, her second book That Championship Year was a finalist in the non fiction award category. Jody is grateful for every reader interested in her books.