This is a wonderful cause that collects new, author-signed books for sending to troops deployed in remote areas of the world. Please share this with everyone you know, you never know who you might reach! I myself will be sending three books to them. The major event starts January 1, 2015 and ends April 30, 2015. They'll also be collecting donations via PayPal to cover shipping costs.
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Friday, December 19, 2014
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Featured Author Doug Puryear and Book Your Life Can be Better
Meet author Doug Puryear, a retired psychiatrist who does
prison ministry as well as writing books. He and his wife have three grown
children and eight grandchildren [my goodness, I can imagine holidays at his
house!], and a dog, and currently live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. When he’s not
writing, he likes to play guitar, learn Spanish, and fly fish [That’s like
where you take the fishing line and flick it in and out of the water? Is there
a place near Santa Fe to do this or do you have to drive a ways?]
Living Daily with Adult ADD or ADHD: 365 Tips Of the Day is
an e-book not intended to be read through like a novel, but more as a daily
devotional or one of those page-a-day calendars. Doug was 64 when he was
diagnosed with ADD/ADHD. He wanted to find a book to give to his patients, but
discovered that none of them were quite what he was looking for. So he wrote
his first book, Your Life Can Be Better: Using Strategies for Adult ADD/ADHD.
When that book became successful, he began to blog. Eventually, he took the
best posts and put them together to make Living Daily.
You can find Living Daily, released in 2013, at Amazon or
Smashwords. Your Life Can Be Better is available in print on Amazon, and
digitally at Amazon or Smashwords. Both books are written in simple language
with short chapters, and rather than being a dry, textbook-style book, is more
personal in that he uses examples from his own life lessons to give the reader
a richer experience. Living Daily is a page-a-day approach full of coping
strategies.
Doug hopes to teach others with this condition to use
strategies that can make their life easier. Also, he shows patients how to make
it better for the loved ones and friends in their life. [ADD/ADHD or not, I
think we could all use extra coping strategies, and I think this would be most
excellent for those suffering from cancer or other life-altering illnesses.]
Doug tells me that, even though these books were meant
specifically for people with ADD, he’s gotten lots of comments that they would
be useful to anyone who would benefit from getting their life a little bit more
organized. [Maybe I need to get one! After chemotherapy, my brain doesn’t work
in the same way that it used to.]
At the moment, Doug is working on his autobiography,
something he wishes his ancestors had done the same. He hopes some of his
descendants will be interested in his life. Down the line, he may write another
book on ADD and possibly one on bullying [It’s sad, but this is becoming more
and more prevalent in our schools these days.].
Doug is looking for marketing ideas, and ways to get his
books into the hands of more people who can benefit from them. He’s completed a
short pamphlet called Six Basic Strategies for Coping with Adult ADD/ADHD
through CreateSpace, as a test to see if he could learn to use their site. He
was successful, however he wishes to give this to people for free, and hasn’t
been able to figure out how to do this. [I’m in the same boat; I wish I could
give Keeping a Backyard Horse away for free. I’d rather people learn how to
take care of horses, and not neglect them through ignorance, than to make money
on this book.]
Here’s how to find Doug: https://addadultstrategies.wordpresscom,
http://www.addadultstrategies.com/
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_23?url=search-alias%3Dstipbooks&field-keywords=your+life+can+be+better&sprefix=your+life+can+be+better%Caps%2C318,
http://www.amazon.com/Living-Daily-Adult-ADD-ADHD-ebook/dp/B00ENTZ6EY/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8%qid=1414984348&sr=1-2&keywords=your+life+can+be+better,
http://www.amazon.com/Douglas-A.Puryear/e/B001KIQ5AA/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1,
and http://adultaddoradhd.wordpress.com/
.
He’s also at Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/117535
and http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/349873,
and you can find him on Pinterest and Facebook as well.
**Disclaimer: This is not an endorsement of these books, as
I’ve not read them and can’t vouch for their contents.**
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Featured Geetha Patel and Book Song of the Koel
Comments in blocks [ ] are my own, rather than ( )
citations.
Give a warm welcome to author Geetha Patel, who calls
herself an Indo-Canadian. She currently lives in Toronto, Canada, and is a
retired school administrator.
Song of the Koel is a romantic fiction using her own life
experiences, plus those of women in general, intertwined with historical facts
(a side effect of being a History major). Song of the Koel was released through
Friesen Press in Canada in December, 2013, and can be found at Amazon, Friesen
Press, Flip Kart, Amazon India, and the online store of Indigo/Chapters. It’s
filled with interesting and intriguing facts that Geetha hopes will touch
reader’s hearts, move their spirits, and enlighten their minds. [Sounds
fascinating, doesn’t it?]
Geetha is currently working on another book. While not
really a sequel, she’s used some of the characters and the new book will start
off where Song of the Koel ended. This one will be called Embers Within the
Ashes. She has also authored the book Do You Have Canadian Experience?
Generally, Geetha uses social media such as Facebook,
Twitter, and LinkedIn to market her book. She also does review exchanges [I may
contact her myself for just this reason!], and she’s also a member of three
book clubs. You can find out more about her at her website: http://www.GeethaPatel.com.
**Disclaimer: This is not an endorsement of these books, as
I’ve not read them and can’t vouch for their contents.**
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