Publishers, Purim and I Want to WIN a Beauty Contest!

B'SD

12-13 Adar, 5773

Sorry for the late-in-the-day post.  Technical issues delayed progress a bit.

Check out a guest blogger post at Sneak Peek into The Comfort Foods Cookbook, then let me know if you're ready to eat the treats in store for you!

The publishing world is a bit like a beauty contest. Writers prepare book proposals designed to entice $ALE$ OPTION$ and hope for the best. It's a tedious, often counter-productive process and I want to bypass it as I achieve a different sort of publishing success.

I'm praying to bypass the misery of the proposal process and to attract a publisher with his or her eyeballs and online attention span.

Wish me success! Oh - you can catch a previous sneak peek at the book when you click on Good4U Comfort Foods.

I'm preparing whole grain and other organic goodies for Purim fun on Sunday. Friends have requested my home made breads and soups. They tell me that they literally feel better after dining on my wholesome foods.

Click this Quick Review of what the 

Purim holiday is about.

Want to cheer up someone sick in a hurry? Buy them E-book or print edition EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism.

Use humor as an ally. Happiness promotes healing!

 

Nifty News about a "Passionate" Writer!

B'SD


29 Elul 5771



 I'm interrupting this pre-holiday break to share some praise with you. No, not about the luscious aroma of another loaf of freshly baked bread I'm baking, but about my professionalism as a writer. I work in journalism and provide different writing services for various clients. Here's what a colleague says about my efforts on a recent joint project we both found quite difficult:

"Yocheved has a remarkable spirit
and an even greater heart.
Her writing reflects her
deepest passions and sensitivities,
expressed in a style that is
wholly unique." Gavriel Horan

Gosh, if he thinks that much of my work under less than desirable conditions, guess what YOU will think of this labor of love that lowers your stress and reduces your medical costs

Buy your copy of E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge TODAY. Simply click on Booklocker Publishing.

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.

Do You Prefer Print Books or E-Books?

B'SD

Readers, here's my quickie question of the day:

Do You Prefer Print Books or E-Books?

I'm considering going to a print edition with E-book It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge, too. Want that option?

It'll cost a bit more, to buy the print version, though.

I created an E-book to keep your costs down as you find soothing thoughts or helpful resource information on your preferred monitor. But some readers might want to cuddle up with the paper version of the book in bed, outdoors or somewhere far from a PC or Kindle arrangement.

Let me know your preferences. I look forward to hearing from you at giveretgolani@gmail.com

To your best health, Yocheved Golani

Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Here's What Happens When You COPE with Butterflies in the Tummy

B'SD


5 Elul 5769


Readers, I'll be very real with you. I've mustered up my courage to go ahead with the original plan for an E-book. Here's why:

I began receiving requests to create

dedicated editions of the printed version.

Businesses and charitable organizations asked "Is it possible to make this book into

something we can present to our clients or supporters, a customized edition - a gift bearing our company name?"

You bet it's possible!

I've overcome my shock at the kerflooey which affected my first E-authorship attempt.

I coached myself to see the upside
of some wonderful possibilities.

Contact me to explore your options for imprinting a dedication page in the printed format of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

If your recipients enjoy being green, conservation, organics and organic products, they'll appreciate the book very much. EMPOWER Yourself (and this blog) teach money-saving strategies to improve your health without harming the environment. In fact, the book teaches how to benefit from the world of natural cures as well as traditional Western medical practices. Without hurting your wallet or the planet ;^ )





Coming soon to your monitors (and office shelves)!

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Author Recovers from Disaster! Read All About It!

B'SD


29 Menachem Av 5769


WHEW. I want to catch up with my book and blog readers after spending weeks recovering from quite a literary disaster. It all began back on August 9, shortly after blogging about the imminent publication of my first-ever E-book. The problem was highly unexpected and shocking.

Someone hacked into my work,

just as I was E-mailing the manuscript for

EMPOWER Yourself to Cope

with a Medical Challenge

to the publisher.

It would have been published

within days.

My entire text was destroyed. Try to imagine the tears that did and didn't fall from my eyes. Years of research, months of formatting, uncounted hours spent on revisions, updates, deletions of newly obsolete information.

Much hope, happiness, and optimism

about whom the book could help

just seemed to fall apart in one

capricious blow from an unknown entity.

Lost. Absolutely lost. My PC technicians could not resuscitate my newly mangled document.

I firmly believe that everything that happens is somehow for the best, even if we mortals don't know what "somehow" is.

I prayed before, during and after I deliberated and discussed the situation with colleagues and my publisher. They're aware of my concern about future cyber-safety and the ease with which E-books are stolen, plagiarized, etc. I've decided to pursue a paper format.

So, dear readers, I took some of my own coping skills advice. I capitalized on the situation, deciding that maybe I'm meant to publish the updated version of It's MY Crisis! in book form instead.

I've reconstructed the book from various materials (paper notes, E-mails to colleagues with some of my "critique this part, please" text, repeated research efforts, memory, and other stuff).

My formatters are now diligently focused on recreating the handsome appearance of the manuscript and its graphics. We've made some creative changes with a quality that impresses us quite a bit.

With help from The One Above,

the end result should be a much

more attractive product for you.

I've turned the negative into something positive. I'll appreciate your patience as I travel this new road to giving you a book even better than the lost edition.

Stay tuned for the announcement that It's MY Crisis And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge is available for purchase.

It will come when Heaven decides

it should.

Meanwhile, you can still buy "It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To: A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge" and benefit from the highly acclaimed coping strategies and medical information there. Medical and mental health professionals have praised it on the cover and in their private practices.

I'm grateful to my colleague Hope Clark, who helped me to choose the words to inform you of the situation. I've struggled to decide how to share the news with you.


Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

What Can a Doctor Do When HE or SHE Suffers a Medical Crisis?

B'SD

2 Tamuz 5769

Months ago, I sent the manuscript for the sequel of "It's MY Crisis!" to a radiologist - he's also a medical ethicist no less - whose articles appear on the 'Net from time to time. I asked him to read the manuscript and to provide "praise" for the back cover as the medical ethicist he is.

Well, life is full of surprises. Read what happened as you follow the doctor's reply to me below:


"Dear Yocheved,

Thank you for sending me the second edition of your book, It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

I received the book one week after I suffered my own medical crisis and found it very helpful. I think the book will be of great benefit both in dealing with the fragile emotional health of sick patients and the stressful situation of the patient's caregiver.

Possibly more importantly, the book offers very practical comprehensive information for dealing with a health-related crisis that is so seldom available to someone who is ill and preoccupied with their own troubles.

When a person is ill, they are by nature in a compromised position and often do not know where to look for guidance. Putting so much useful information at their fingertips will help them navigate the difficulties of a confusing medical system.

Combined with the encouragement to never give up hope, the book will be of great aid to anyone with a sudden serious medical emergency.

Thank you again for sending me the book to review. Daniel Eisenberg, MD"

BTW, the good doctor is with the Department of Radiology at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA; Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Imaging at Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine; Medical Ethicist http://www.daneisenberg.com/

OK readers, now you know why my schedule has been so busy lately. I'm finalizing the publication preparations for "It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge." As Dr. Eisenberg indicates, it's a powerful patient tool.

Be part of a publishing phenomenon!

Make a dedication to or sponsorship of the book when you contact me at giveretgolani@gmail.com.

Honor or memorialize loved ones,

seek a merit for the recovery and/or

coping mechanisms for someone who's sick

by contributing to the publication of

this cutting-edge book.

Click here to Buy Yocheved's 1st Book NOW. Get a head start on coping with YOUR medical crisis. Heck, it's pretty much 'Doctor's Orders!' ;^ )


To your good health,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

The Book is Being Prepared for Sale as You Read this Update ;^ )

18 Av 5767, August 2 2007

It's a wonderful day in my writing life! Booklocker's staff is getting my book ready for international distribution as you read these words. And while your eyes are here, I want to add a BIG message of thanks to my wonderful, compassionate, intelligent and completely full of integrity publishers, Angela and Richard Hoy.

As soon as the URL for online purchases is ready, I will post it here. I will include information for bulk purchases at discounted prices.

That purchase information should make life simpler for business owners desiring to sell my book to clients. Several business owners have already contacted me to request such information. Yep, word is out around the world that "It's MY Crisis!" is a wonderful, inspiring read.

Expect to read my MEDIA RELEASE at this blog soon. I plan to send it to key people throughout broadcast and print media plus online news resources, and of course to the publishing, medical and mental health industries. A MEDIA RELEASE, by the way, is different from a press release. It is designed to be used by Internet sites, broadcast and print media, as well as by laypersons interested in receiving the information.

Information about the Life Coaching side of my life will be included with that Media Release and my forthcoming book.

Best of health to you and every blessing for goodness in your life,

Yojeved/Yocheved (see the left-hand margin for the reason why I spell my name two ways)

Book Reviews Coming to a Publication Near You!

July 9, 23 Tamuz 5767

Editors at a few publications have indicated that reviews of my book will be in print and/or online next month. I'll keep you updated about actual dates of appearance as they occur.

Other interesting things are happening in regard to my book and I'm delighted about that. As soon as I've figured out how to phrase the fast-paced dynamics briefly and coherently, I'll recap the events on this blog. Stand by for news!

Meanwhile, check out this advance publicity for my book:

http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/lazer_beams/2006/11/beams_weekend_p.html

http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/lazer_beams/2007/04/coping_with_a_m.html

http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/lazer_beams/2007/04/coping_with_a_m_1.html

http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/lazer_beams/2007/04/coping_with_a_m_3.html

http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/lazer_beams/emotional_health/index.html