
Some Things Are Simply Meant to Be: A Dare-to-be-Different Memoir
A successful award-winning hair designer, an immigrant from a tiny village in Switzerland, starry-eyed arrives in New York, with two small suitcases on a massive ocean liner from England – alone. Fear a constant companion.
She is 23.
Coming to America … Living the elusive dream.
A rocky road from Switzerland to find Gold in Arizona. A belief that something extraordinary is possible, a collection of real-life stories, poetry, prose, and pictures in color.


News to smile about
Trudy is one of the Finalists for the 2024 Short Stories and Essays Shorts Book Award,
Title: Regifting With a Twist
At Chanticleer Book Reviews and Media (International)
Same place where Trudy’s memoir, Some Things Are Simply Meant to Be, won First Place in 2024


First Place Winner
Trudy was one of the first-place winners for the 2023 Chanticleer Reviews International Book Contest. She was awarded the Hearten CIBA Award for Uplifting & Inspirational Non-Fiction Stories for the Heart for her book, “Some Things Are Simply Meant to Be.”
Links:
- www.trudywells-meyer.com
- Amazon | Some Things Are Simply Meant to Be
- The Author’s Guild
- Scottsdale Public Library: Local Author Book Talk Series
- Steamboat Writers