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Congratulations Grace, I can't wait to read it!
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Joe wrote: "I, too, am having a problem adding my book -- it appears, but gets stuck during the process.http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17..."
Hi Joe
I added your book to the group bookshelf.
Leila
Hi, All.I just joined this group and I'm very excited to start working with all of you. Just added my book to the shelf, too. What's best to do next? I've been reading about reviews and tagging on Amazon, but I'm not seeing the tag feature. Is it still an option? (I've seen mostly older posts so far...)
Hi Andy, unfortunately Amazon has removed the tagging feature. You'll find some other great promotion suggestions on this group though :)All the best,
Leila
Thank you, Leila. I'm anxious to dive in, but it's a bit daunting... so much to look at!!
A link to check my book about coming of age and self discovery. Would love feedback and willing to do the same in reverse!https://www.amazon.com/author/roxyric...
Good luck, Grace.Syed
Author of "Digha Lodge: A Short History of the Jamil Family".Grace wrote: "Hi Leila, my book is officially out. I've added it to the shelf. It's titled, "Reaching" by Grace Peterson
www.gracepete.com
Thanks."
Paulyanna International Rent-boy. 1990s Social history
Happy to find this group! 
I contributed to the above books LETTERS TO DOCTORS and THE PINK MOON LOVELIES EMPOWERING STORIES OF SURVIVAL.
I am currently writing a memoir.
My blog is at: http://thebrcaresponder.blogspot.com
Linda wrote: "Leila wrote: "Group members -- add your books to the bookshelf below. Other members can then easily view your books. To support one another, we can also like and tag each others Amazon pages..."T..."
First of all thank you for inviting me to the group, Leila, and for making the bookshelf available. I'm off to try it. Feel quite inept negotiating all this!
Let me know if you need help :) Goodreads is easy once you get used to it, but like all new things, it takes some patience and practice.
Dear all,
I'm thrilled to announce that after great reviews in both PW and Kirkus, promotion of my book has begun!http://onforb.es/1mGg2um !
My memoir, CHASING MY FATHER is now available. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, and it's my transformative 6-year journey that took me to South Africa where I found love and forgiveness. Returning to the United States, I found freedom and rest in a church community where I use my spiritual gifts in our healing prayer ministry. I've survived breast cancer and a divorce, but have found immeasurable joy in loving God above all things. It's my story, but everyone has a story of searching for God. Chasing My Father www.agathanolen.com/journal/chasing-m...
Roxy wrote: "A link to check my book about coming of age and self discovery. Would love feedback and willing to do the same in reverse!https://www.amazon.com/author/roxyric..."
Hi Roxy, your link goes to author page on Amazon and when I put your name in search - I can't find your book. Would love to read it. Thanks.
I recently published the first edition of my memoir I, Bipolar www.amazon.com/I-Bipolar-DS-Black-ebo...
A Long and Winding Road: A Caregiver's Tale of Life, Love and Chaos
My memoir is the story of a 7-week, 16-state RV trip - the story of the drama and hilarity that happen when two new RV owners and two people with dementia spend 53 days inside a 400-square-foot box on wheels. It’s a story meant to make you laugh at the ridiculous things in life, to encourage you through the hard parts, and to inspire you to keep on rolling, even when the road is hard.
Blessings,
Linda
My memoir is called: "Hope in Sight: One Doctor's Quest to Restore Eyesight and Dignity to the World's Poor."From my preface: Contracting and recovering from trachoma, the world's leading cause of preventable blindness, sparked a young girl's desire to become an eye doctor. Determined not to lose sight of her goal, Aisha Simjee became the first woman in her East Indian tribe to graduate from high school, refuse an arranged marriage, and emigrate from oppressive Burma to opportunity-laden America.
As a young foreigner, a woman from a Muslim family, and someone tipping the scales at 83 pounds, she overcame considerable prejudice through hard work and perseverance. As soon as she was able, she became a "sponsor-mother" to nineteen children from her family in Burma and Bangladesh. Along with her two natural-born children, all have gone on to become thriving, productive members of society, including several physicians and medical professionals.
Not only did she achieve her dream of becoming an eye doctor, she has used her successful medical practice in Southern California as a springboard to help thousands of desperate people at home and around the world. On humanitarian trips to twenty-six developing countries and counting, she has taught local doctors modern techniques in ophthalmology and profoundly changed the lives of the poor by performing sight-restoring surgeries free of charge.
Aisha Simjee, MD, is beloved and highly respected in the Southern California medical community as a board-certified, fellowship-trained and compassionate ophthalmologist. She has received considerable recognition for her charitable work locally and globally.http://amzn.to/1nI1VaX
Hi everyone. I added my latest book, Metastatic Memories, to the bookshelf just now. It's a memoir about my experience with cancer at the age of 25. I released it during Young Adult Cancer Awareness Week in the hopes that young adults with cancer and their families will take something from my experience, and come to know that they aren't alone. You can find the book on amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/Metastatic-Memo...
Hello all! I just added my memoir, Her name was Bitter. The true account of a child's decade long ordeal with a fugitive on the run. Years of incest that lead to a pregnancy at 13. The trauma of giving birth in secret, being forced to give her daughter up for adoption, and coping with the shame of protecting the guilty. A glimpse into the life of a victim and a victor. Explore a young girl’s journey from utter chaos to an unlikely destination of peace.http://www.amazon.com/Her-name-was-Bi...
Hi there.I've recently posted/ published my own book, and have a giveaway running until 7th June. Here are the details:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
My book RUTH MINERVA, was published 5 years ago. I have three books published, but RUTH MINERVA is my Autobiography. I knew I was going to have a lot of angry people judging me, especially my kids who stopped talking to me for almost 4 years. Finally they called, we spoke, they understood and all is good now. Last month I heard that my nieces and nephews did not talk to me because their parents did not want them to have any contact with me. four of them did not know that I existed. My nieces who are now adults confronted their mother and told her what I wrote was all true, but she did not believe nor wanted them to have ny part of me. Today they call me and realized that I am still their lovable aunt. My deceased brother's children discovered that they had an aunt and family on their father's side. They too were lied to, and have been living a miserable life. Now they call me and are happy I exist and that they have a family on their father's side. I am glad that I wrote my autobiography, the truth is out, my children and nieces and nephews have come back to me. The end justified the means. Writing your memoir and publishing will hurt and bother many, but many times things have to be told.
Please add my book, The House on Sunset, to the shelf. It is currently a Kindle Countdown Deal (until this Friday) at .99 cents. http://www.amazon.com/House-Sunset-Sa...
Life Is Not Enough: The Memoir of a Contented Man is available. Here is the back cover blurb:Bob Brown was tossed into the first wave of baby boomers. He arrived in a world of cold wars, atomic bombs, racism, revolutions, bikinis and music that would soon do the stroll into rock and roll.
There is absolutely nothing special about him. Yet his story is compelling. He has managed to ask the right questions and has listened well enough to understand the best answers.
God spoke to him for a while but then went silent. The famous and the not so famous became his teachers. He sought and found the meaning of life.
In this memoir of seeking the reason to get out of a warm, comfortable bed in the morning, Brown tells the story of what made sense to him.
He thanks his parents for making it all possible.
And thanks to all in the group--I'm learning a lot.
It may (or may not) have made it onto the memoir bookshelf.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Robert wrote: "Life Is Not Enough: The Memoir of a Contented Man is available. Here is the back cover blurb:Bob Brown was tossed into the first wave of baby boomers. He arrived in a world of cold wars, atomic b..."
Sounds interesting, Bob. I like books that explore the meaning of life.
Holly wrote: "Robert wrote: "Life Is Not Enough: The Memoir of a Contented Man is available. Here is the back cover blurb:Bob Brown was tossed into the first wave of baby boomers. He arrived in a world of cold..."
Holly,
I'd be happy to send you an ebook if you like. Let me know what type and where.
Bob
Robert wrote: "Holly wrote: "Robert wrote: "Life Is Not Enough: The Memoir of a Contented Man is available. Here is the back cover blurb:Bob Brown was tossed into the first wave of baby boomers. He arrived in a..."
Great. I have a kindle but I'm not sure how to add a MOBI file to it. PDF is okay too. I suppose email is the best way to send it? Trying to think how you can do that without me leaving my email here...
My book giveaway is now open from Nov. 4 to Nov. 26. The Unique Childhood of a Hummer describes how I and 1500 other poor, fatherless boys grew up and were educated at an extraordinary boarding school near center city Philadelphia. Everyday was an adventure.I also created a quiz - if you get just two right you are winner. My website is www.musingspress.com. This is an unabashed advertisement
Leila wrote: "Let me know if you need help :) Goodreads is easy once you get used to it, but like all new things, it takes some patience and practice."Hi,
I need instructions on how to add new memoir" Street Angel" by Magie Dominic to the Bookshelf Is that possible? This is the cover blurb:
"“Magie Dominic tells us many things about her young life as a little girl on the seacoast of Newfoundland, where in the 1940s it matters a lot if you are Catholic or non-Catholic. This little girl grows up to become the woman who is able to write this book against all the odds of fear and superstition.”
— Nancy Milford, author of Zelda (1970), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and Savage Beauty, a biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay (2001)"
Thank you,
Magie
http://www.amazon.com/GODLESS-Valuabl... GODLESS -- Living a Valuable Life Beyond Beliefs (Memoirs of a Thoughtful Traveler ) (Volume 6) was just published.
My new book, "Twinkle: a memoir", is now available.One, lone double agent in the unrelenting cold war that was her family. Analyzing strengths and eccentricities of the enemy while offering herself to evil to save a weak mother and younger siblings. "Twinkle" is the exceptional telling of an all too common story of one girl’s unrelenting pursuit of survival, her self-sacrifice, and the need to feel God’s love.
http://www.amazon.com/Twinkle-memoir-...
To add your book, visit the group bookshelf https://www.goodreads.com/group/books... and you should be able to click on 'add books', then search for your book on Goodreads and add it.The group bookshelf is a great place to peruse all the group members memoirs and find some new books to read. Adding books to your to-read list, also helps the authors book stats :)
Thanks (again), Leila; good to know where to find these listed.
These memoirs are from a middle-aged Missourian who was part of the strange, yet fascinating world of Civil War Reenacting. I tell of my first taste of black powder, "seeing the elephant", fighting heat, rain, cold, mud, politics, movie stars, and live fire. From dog and pony show events to 125th anniversary spectaculars involving thousands of participants, I reveal the inside skinny on the hobby, as I saw it, with plenty of humor to tickle the funny bone.Chin Music From A Greyhound: The Confessions of a Civil War Reenactor 1978-1987
Chin Music from a greyhound: The confessions of a civil war reenactor 1988-2000
Thought this review of FOR THE CHILDREN might be of interest:http://www.blog.dedicaces.us/?p=3215
For the Children
Hello all, My memoir, Xamnesia: Everything I Forgot in my Search for an Unreal Life launched on June 22, 2015. It's about my travels from New Zealand to Paris, working for oil-rich billionaires in a country I'm calling "Xamnesia" due to confidentiality agreements! It's a page turner about self-worth being worth more than money...!
Xamnesia: Everything I Forgot in my Search for an Unreal Life
Hello Friends,My memoir is more an adult read. It is my life starting as a little girl who endured sex abuse trauma, undiagnosed mental/emotional health from this trauma, bipolar depression and agoraphobia later in adulthood, gambling addiction and recovery.
It is an in-depth personal look of what gambling addiction can do to ones life. Dark family secrets and more. We need to start talking about this issues in a more public forum, so I wrote and share my story to help others have hope and know there is HELP available.
Addicted To Dimes, Confessions of a Liar and a Cheat.
On Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and AddictedMinds.com where I am a contributing recovery article writer.
http://www.amazon.com/Addicted-Dimes-... With 94% 5 Stars.
Author, Catherine Townsend-Lyon
G'day everyone,
For any woman, particularly young women, my memoir is a very important book. It is about sexual harassment and assault and how I did everything wrong when dealing with men, particularly Australian men. I never fought back, I didn't speak up or report the crimes committed against me. I let them all get away scot-free. Why? I didn't know how to. I was never taught how to deal with their sexual advances or how to react in these situations or what was a crime or what could be reported. I made far too many mistakes, and all because I didn't know what to do, because nobody teaches us.
This is a subject we have to start talking about and begin teaching our girls what to do in similar situations.
There is every kind of story included in this memoir; indecent exposure, being followed, watched, stalked, harassed everywhere I went (including the workplace), being hounded, tormented, harassed by lewd behaviour and catcalls, to the more serious crimes of physical violence and sexual assaults.
With close to 100 stories shared throughout this book, many women will be able to relate and many young women will hopefully learn how to not make the same mistakes I did with dealing with men in these situations.
Even if only one person can benefit from my book, then it was worth re-living every red-hot angry moment.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
For any woman, particularly young women, my memoir is a very important book. It is about sexual harassment and assault and how I did everything wrong when dealing with men, particularly Australian men. I never fought back, I didn't speak up or report the crimes committed against me. I let them all get away scot-free. Why? I didn't know how to. I was never taught how to deal with their sexual advances or how to react in these situations or what was a crime or what could be reported. I made far too many mistakes, and all because I didn't know what to do, because nobody teaches us.
This is a subject we have to start talking about and begin teaching our girls what to do in similar situations.
There is every kind of story included in this memoir; indecent exposure, being followed, watched, stalked, harassed everywhere I went (including the workplace), being hounded, tormented, harassed by lewd behaviour and catcalls, to the more serious crimes of physical violence and sexual assaults.
With close to 100 stories shared throughout this book, many women will be able to relate and many young women will hopefully learn how to not make the same mistakes I did with dealing with men in these situations.
Even if only one person can benefit from my book, then it was worth re-living every red-hot angry moment.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
My memoir is called Untangled, A Story of Resilience, Courage and Triumph by Alexis Rose. http://www.amazon.com/Untangled-story...
Is this how I add it to the list?
Letters to My Son - Reflections of Urban Appalachia at Mid-CenturyHello! My book is about growing up in urban Appalachia, rather than the rural life most expect an Appalachian to have had. If you grew up around mid-century, the stories will resonate with you!
Thanks for reading!
My Memoir is about addiction and recovery, living with mental health challenges from my past childhood abuse and sexual trauma, family secrets and more. I also have a wonderful blog where I continue my recovery journey here: https://CatherineLyonAddictedToDimes....Everyone is welcome!
Author, Catherine Lyon
Addicted To Dimes, Confessions of a Liar and a Cheat
Hi! My book:Before, Afdre, and After (My stroke … oh what fun)
“When Maureen Twomey was only thirty-three years old, she experienced a massive stroke—one that took away her ability to read, write, walk, and even speak" -- Aaaaaaaahh! -- "But she wasn’t about to go down without a fight. In Before, Afdre, and After, Twomey offers a sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes comical, and ultimately inspiring account of what it is to lose everything when you’re supposed to be in the prime of your life—and what it takes to get it back, piece by tiny piece.”
http://www.amazon.com/Before-Afdre-Af...
Or my page, https://maureentwomey.wordpress.com/b...
Thanks :)
“Here he comes, the memory man.” That's how my friends greet me. More than sixty years have passed since my pal Andy said, “You gotta write a book. You have so many stories to tell!” I never forgot that. Fifty years later I finally took the hint and began putting down on paper those memories of mine. The book begins when I was two and living on Crematory Hill in Middle Village, New York. It covers the period between the Great Depression to shortly after the end of World War II. At age three there were Gypsies in my life. When I was five we returned to the melting pot city of Bridgeport, Connecticut, where I was born. There I made friends with the inmates of the county jail who, because of their good behavior, had the privilege of working outside the walls of confinement on Beers Street, right outside our door. One month before I reached six, New England had the worst Hurricane in its history. Bridgeport Bobby was stationed at the backroom window reporting to his loved ones what the storm was doing.
Eventually we moved to Ridgewood, New York. Most children wish to live in the country and I was no exception. The problem is that a child has little influence on where he will live, so it was city life for me. Looking back I now see how I made up for the lack of forests, mountains and streams. Although I always yearned for the rural life, there were within my town a railroad and a fenced in trolley yard. These became my playgrounds. In addition to these favorites, there was a large field and farm behind a greenhouse as well as the backwoods of a cemetery. By age ten these were my stomping grounds. Having this environment allowed me to be a sort of Huckleberry Finn in the city.
Life went on in other ways. Over and over I fell in love, but I was no more successful with my sweethearts than I was with book learning. There were the usual confrontations with schoolyard bullies, as well as hatchet and switchblade carrying “crazies.” Although World War II put fear into our lives, we still had an enjoyable time. Besides air raid drills and blackouts, my sister Judy and I had fun tracking down Nazi spies. We finally discovered one. He lived right in our apartment building. All of a sudden spies were popping up in various parts of Ridgewood.
I would like to share these and other stories with you. So allow me to take you on my dangerous journey.
I Had Jelly on My Nose and A Hole in My Breeches.
http://amzn.to/1PH4Nxs
Hello Everyone,My book is titled: “Not a Blueprint: It’s the Shoe Print that Matter: A Journey Through Toxic Relationships,” and scheduled to be released April 5, 2016.
The message inside this story reveals ...
Symbolizing a Journey ─ Learning Lessons ─ Letting Go ─ and Gaining Insight . . . tools that lead to relationships.
Relationships are distinguished in all forms: drugs, alcohol, emotions, work environments, people, etc. Just living gives us a relationship with life!
This story in its raw image projects a remarkable voice to the heroic fight and bravery gained when striking back to wipe out the toxicity of deadly relationships. Through its reading, you will discover the importance that life brings many challenges, and that each challenge provides lessons to be learned. Ultimately, this story speaks to the beauty of love, compassion, courage, determination, and strength.
New Release: "Everything Will be Just Perfect"
Five star Editorial Review from Readers' Favorite just in: I’m so glad I met Margaret Eleanor Leigh. No, not in person…in her book, Everything Will Be Just Perfect! What a character she is! She couldn’t be more interesting if she had created herself for a fiction book. But Everything Will Be Just Perfect! isn’t fiction, and Margaret Eleanor Leigh is alive and well, writing books, and if I dare say it, slightly crazy. But crazy in the nicest and cleverest way when it comes to entertaining her readers.
Though she doesn’t classify the book as such, Everything Will Be Just Perfect! is a memoir about nothing being perfect, no matter how hard one tries. It’s also a humorous travel memoir, and what better way to travel from South Africa to New Zealand, from Greece to Wales than to move residences 92 times! Why would anyone move 92 times in a lifetime? Well, Margaret Eleanor Leigh and her mother, Polly, who ends up dying by the time all the moving’s done, have perfectly good reasons for doing so. And those reasons find readers sometimes appalled, occasionally surprised, often confused but always amused.
I really don’t want to tell you too much about Everything Will Be Just Perfect! because if you enjoy humour, you need to experience Margaret Eleanor Leigh’s crazy life, motivations, musings, fears and unfulfilled dreams for yourself. She spends much of that travel and moving time reading, observing people, writing about them, and submitting books to publishers. Then she watches her mail for rejection slips, gets them and moves on, because after all nothing is perfect even when Polly assures her everything will be just perfect. Leigh describes herself as a “writer without roots” who has lived in 6 countries. The result of all that moving is a wealth of information and insight and enough material for a library of books. Indeed, Margaret Eleanor Leigh has already written many books, in four different genres, including children's books. Leigh proves that for sure, “a rolling stone gathers no moss.”
Everything Will Be Just Perfect! is one of best and most enjoyable reads I’ve had in 2015, thanks to Leigh’s self-deprecating humour that finds one looking back at oneself constantly and realizing how, despite the differences of our experiences, culture and colour, we are all very much like her when it comes to our perceptions of and interactions with others - with one big difference: most of us can’t laugh at ourselves as well as she does. And in being able to laugh at oneself lies the secret to surviving just about anything, even 92 moves back and forth across 3 continents! Read Everything Will Be Just Perfect! You’ll love it.
Available on Amazon US at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B018...
And Amazon UK at
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0...
Dear Margaret,Sounds interesting. I'm a writer of travel memoirs, too, so perhaps you could review my latest ?
Do send your book to ivanaplus@hotmail.com
Regards,
Anthony
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