FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FOUND ITEM PUBLISHING ACQUIRES NEW MEMOIR BY STEVE HELLYARD SWARTZ, 

HEBRON, KY — OCTOBER 31, 2026 — Found Item Publishing is thrilled to announce the acquisition of MOMB, a captivating new memoir by Steve Hellyard Swartz. Scheduled for release in Summer 2027, MOMB follows 60 years in the life of Eleanore Hope Swartz, and the heartbreaking work of loving a Momb: Part Mom, part weapon of mass destruction.

'When Steve's Mom enters "The Home" it is nearly 60 years from the first sentence of the book. He seamlessly transports us from kid, desperate to make his mother happy for a while, to adult navigating hospice and a dying parent during the Covid-19 pandemic. His drive for connection to his mother is enough to break your heart, especially if you had or have a less than ideal relationship with your mom.

"I think about telling Yolanda that she couldn’t be any more wrong if she tried. My whole life I wanted less fighting from my mother, not more. Instead, all I say is, “Thank You.” “You’ll see, papi. Maybe not now, ‘cuz this is too hard. But one day, you’ll think back on this time and thank God for every second you had with her.” Yolanda stares at me. I hope that by saying she’s a hundred per cent right, she’ll just go so I say it and thank you, dear Lord God, she sashays away. The nurse comes out of the room and asks me if I want a shot too. LOL. Back by my mother’s side, I watch as she struggles with each breath. Hey, Yolanda, come back! Check this out. Lovin’ every second of it! My mother’s eyes open, and she stares up into the overhead light. I get up and lean over her, so she’s staring at me instead. Up this close, I notice for the first time that my mother has tiny flecks of gold in the brown of her eyes. If she does, then maybe I do, too. I can’t see my eyes, even up close, so I don’t know. But let’s say I do. Let’s say it’s a case of like mother, like son. Yolanda? Maybe I was too quick to condemn what you said about wringing every last second out of her and me. Because if I’d had my way, then this would never have happened, this improbable discovery of the little flecks of gold that she and I share. "                 -Momb, Chapter 8

About the Author:

Steve Hellyard Swartz is an award-winning filmmaker, humorist, poet, and playwright. His film, NEVER LEAVE NEVADA, which he wrote and directed and in which he co-starred, opened at the U.S. SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL in 1990 before playing festivals and opening commercially worldwide. He is a four-time finalist in the Eugene O' Neill Playwrighting Competition, the former Poet Laureate of Schenectady county in upstate New York, and the winner of a Green Eyeshade Award for Excellence in Broadcasting given by the Society of Professional Journalists. Swartz is a former humor columnist for the University of Texas' Daily Texan and the Austin Chronicle. He lives in Schenectady, New York with his wife Lyuda, dogs Sonny Swartz, Jr. and Hazel, and cat Rory..

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