I wrote Someone Stop This Merry-Go-Round; An Alcoholic Family in Crisis, and its sequel Please, God, Not Two: This Killer Called Alcoholism, because I lost my husband and a grown daughter to their addiction. I felt I had to share, what I thought at the time, was all the wrong handling of the addiction in my family. I added my talks at jails, rehabilitation centers, halfway home, and court-ordered programs in the sequel about Lori.   

Ms. Sequeira is a four-time award winning author, a Motivational Speaker, and an Awareness Coach on Alcohol and Drug Abuse for private and public events after the loss of her husband and daughter from North Dighton, Massachusetts .

She is the producer, director and co-host to the NBTV-95 Cable TV Station out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Ms. Sequeira is a weekly writer for the Cape Cod Today blog ( a newspaper also) at (http://www.capecodtoday.com).

Awards: Reader Views of Austin, Texas had awarded A Sample of Heaven; Our Last Call with the Reviewers Choice Award 2008 Semi-Finalist. Allbooks Review of Canada had nominated her memoirs Someone Stop This Merry-Go-Round with the “Editor’s Choice Award” and was nominated for the “Dan Poynter’s Global eBook Award 2011.” The sequel, Please, God, Not Two was also nominated for the “Editor’s Choice Award 2010” and appeared in the December 20, 2010 issue of Publishers Weekly.

In 2013, Alberta and Al, met with Stephen Meunier, who at the time had been the Policy Advisor to Senator John Kerry, in his office located in Boston, Massachusetts. They presented ways to try to modify the Patient Privacy Act to help alcoholics, drug addicts, the mental ill and their families.

She is a Continuing Education instructor for two three- hour writer’s workshops titled “Bring Your Manuscript to Publication”, “How to Self-Publish Your Own Book with Create Space, and "Writing Memoirs. Both are published as handbooks with Create Space in paperback and Kindle in the KDP Select.

Alberta is a co-founder to Authors Without Borders,” (www.awb6.com) with three other authors who offer their services with speaking engagements, readings, panel discussions, book signing, poetry slams and workshops at schools, bookstores, businesses, and libraries.