Boni Wagner-Stafford Media Kit
Nothing But White Ash is a poignant exploration of resilience, regret, and the sacrifices we make for family and survival.
It also exposes a little-known but devastating chapter in history: the persecution of ethnic Germans in Russia
and the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1942. Their stories of survival, silence, and systemic violence—largely
erased from public memory—echo with unsettling clarity in today’s global context.
"Nothing But White Ash is not my first book, but it is the first one that I can describe as a personal passion project. I found it more terrifying (What if I can’t do it? What if it’s horrible?) than any of my other books. Perhaps that's why it took me twelve years to finish it!"
Boni Wagner-Stafford is publisher and cofounder at Ingenium Books, a Canadian indie press. She has coached more than three dozen authors and writers, helping them start, develop, polish, and then publish their manuscripts. Many have won awards, two have been Wall Street Journal bestsellers.
She’s an award-winning former Canadian journalist, host of the Ingenium Books podcast, and has previously written two books for authors: The Best Memoir: How to Write it When You Don’t Know How, and One Million Readers: Book Marketing Strategies to Save Time, Money, and Sell More Books.
She likes to move—so far, she has lived in twenty different cities/towns in Canada, Mexico and France. She spent three years living full-time on her sailboat, also named Ingenium, and now calls Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, home.
It is possible she is addicted to kittens.
About Nothing But White Ash
A sweeping historical family saga of love, loss, and the unbreakable will to survive.
Perfect for fans of The Nightingale, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, and All the Light We Cannot See.
Based on a true story, Nothing But White Ash traces one family’s desperate escape from war-torn Russia and their fight to survive as immigrant settlers in early 20th-century Canada. Spanning decades and continents, this deeply moving novel explores the enduring bonds of family, the weight of generational trauma, and the hope that can grow from the most barren soil.
This unforgettable historical fiction novel explores:
• The persecution of Volga Germans during the Russian Revolution
• Immigration and survival on the Canadian prairie
• Love torn apart by war and betrayal
• A man’s lifelong search for redemption and belonging
• Forgotten history brought to life with emotional depth and authenticity
Russia, 1917.
Florian Wagner is still a boy when revolution tears through his Volga German village. As civil war, famine, and persecution by the Bolsheviks upend his world and he becomes a young man, Florian must make an unthinkable choice: leave behind the woman he loves—or risk both their lives.
Canada, 1920s.
Half a world away, on the cold prairies of Saskatchewan, Florian fights to build a new life. Haunted by the violence he fled and the love he lost, he enters into a marriage of duty—but his heart never leaves Russia. As war brews again in Europe, long-buried secrets rise from the ashes and threaten to consume everything he’s built.
Boni Wagner-Stafford Media Kit
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A harrowing journey across continents. A love story torn apart by revolution. A family’s fight for survival in a new land. Author and former Canadian journalist Boni Wagner-Stafford is set to release her deeply personal and historically rich debut novel, Nothing But White Ash, a powerful family saga inspired by the true story of her grandfather’s flight from Russia following the Bolshevik Revolution.
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Contacts
Boni Wagner-Stafford: boni@ingeniumbooks.com
Media Inquiries
Tracy Lamourie, Founder, Managing Director, Senior Publicist: LAMOURIE MEDIA
“Global Award Winning PR – Toronto, Hollywood, the EU & Beyond”
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Boni Wagner-Stafford
Boni is the author of Nothing But White Ash, a sweeping work of historical fiction set against the backdrop of the Russian revolution and based on a true story from Wagner family history.
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