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So far, I've received
excellent feedback on Crumbs.
I am so happy that the project is finally done and
out there, and that it will hopefully help other
people who've gone through similar things.
Many people have asked
me why I went with BookSurge for publishing rather
than the traditional route. I felt that
BookSurge had the best system of distribution for
the price and they also have a Talent Acquisition
Program. In addition, I didn't want to par the
book down or rewrite it to appease someone else's
sense of what would be a best seller. I didn't
write it to make money; I just want to help people
who may be in the same boat.
Feedback so far has
included things like: "I felt like I was
reading about my own life," and "The exact same
thing has happened to me!" I am glad people
are able to relate on many levels.
I have also published
an Amazon Short about
compulsive overeating for those that want a few
pages of quick facts and fixes.
Posted January 30, 2007; 9:45pm EST
I found a wonderful
article about the science of food and living
healthier from the NY Times writer Michael Pollan.
In this 12-page article titled, "Unhappy
Meals," Pollan gives some great advice about how
to eat healthier by avoiding processed and packaged
foods. Something that stuck with me was this:
"Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or
the Italians. Or the Greeks..." "Any traditional
diet will do: if it weren’t a healthy diet, the
people who follow it wouldn’t still be around."
"In borrowing from a food culture, pay attention to
how a culture eats, as well as to what it eats. In
the case of the French paradox, it may not be the
dietary nutrients that keep the French healthy (lots
of saturated fat and alcohol) so much as the dietary
habits: small portions, no seconds or snacking,
communal meals — and the serious pleasure taken in
eating."
I think this is so true - we must enjoy what we eat,
savor it and relish in the company in which we dine.
So often, Americans in particular, are guilty of
gorging on the rush, eating alone, and mindlessly
eating. We also eat to fill voids within ourselves,
sometimes not even realizing that we're sabotaging
efforts to live healthier.
Posted January 28, 2007; 9:35pm EST
My latest book
Crumbs is now available
through Amazon.com. I am thrilled that this
project has now come to fruition, and I hope that my
reading audience will be able to get to know me and
relate to me on many levels. I will be
starting on another manuscript soon after a short,
much needed break.
Posted January 27, 2007; 9:55pm EST
Why is it when my
annoying neighbors play glaring music that it's
never music I would actually listen to? You
never hear someone playing Sting or Peter Gabriel or
even classical music loudly next door - it's always
the same hip hop or country garbage. Ugh.
Posted January 15, 2007; 10:23am EST
Here's a thoughtful
article, "MY FATHER’S SUITCASE"
by ORHAN PAMUK, The Nobel Lecture, 2006.
Issue of 2006-12-25 and 2007-01-01 of the New
Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/061225fa_fact1
I especially liked
this:
A writer is someone who spends years patiently
trying to discover the second being inside him, and
the world that makes him who he is. When I speak of
writing, the image that comes first to my mind is
not a novel, a poem, or a literary tradition; it is
the person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down
at a table, and, alone, turns inward. Amid his
shadows, he builds a new world with words.
Posted January 8, 2007; 8:35pm EST
I haven't written in
my blog in a couple of months. I've been busy
finishing up my latest book,
Crumbs. Since this is a self-published
venture, I've been completely consumed by the
publishing process. This book has taken me one
year to write. In fact, my New Year's
resolution for 2006 was to complete the manuscript
by January 2007. I am a bit ahead of the
process as it's in acquisitions at the publisher.
With the help of two professional editors, and one
friend on a writer's forum (whose opinion matters to
me greatly), I was able to produce a compelling read
for people who battle compulsive overeating (also
known as binge eating), using my own life as an
example.This
book hits close to home with me. I've battled
compulsive overeating for years now, and it's only
been within the last few years that I've realized my
eating disorder and the effects of binge eating.
Months of research went into this book, hundreds of
hours of editing my own personal journal entries
(which are extremely hard to face), and allowing
myself to heal and discover healthier ways to cope
with life's stresses. I hope that people who have
this disorder, as well as other dependencies, are
able to relate to me on some level, and take away
something positive from my life's experiences.
Here's to a
prosperous New Year to everyone, and while I'll be
on a short break from writing, I do intend to
conjure up something else for 2007!
Posted January 4, 2007; 11:05pm EST
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