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Daily Excerpt: 57 Steps to Paradise (Lorenz) - Sam, First Husband

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  Excerpt from  57 Steps to Paradise  by Patricia Lorenz--   Sam, First Husband   I’m writing this book for women in their 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s who are single, divorced, or widowed and who are interested in finding a good man with whom to share the rest of their lives. In order to do that I must first unzip my soul and expose my foibles. Think about it. Nobody wants to read about the perfect woman in the perfect house wearing the perfect designer outfit with the perfect man at her side. We women want the real belly-in-the-muck-of-life story. We want to read about the tough parts, the sad, anguishing parts of a real woman’s life, and hopefully learn how she wiggled out of the mud and muck into the light with a pretty good man’s arms available for a great bear hug every so often. So, that’s what I’m going to give you. The truth. I’ve made many mistakes when it comes to men, but I don’t think I’m that much differently from many women. After all, the divorce rate is inchin
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Publisher's Pride: Books on Bestseller Lists - He's a Porn Addict...Now What? (Overbay and Shea)

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  Today's Publisher's Pride is  He's a Porn Addict...Now What?  by Tony Overbay and Joshua Shea , which reached  #91 in sexual addiction & recovery on Amazon. Book description: Admitting you're a drug addict or alcoholic can be difficult, but when it comes to pornography addiction, the pain of betrayal can hit the addict's partner worse than the addict himself. Difficult questions come rushing: Does he look at this stuff because I'm not enough? Was he like this when I first met him? Is this God trying to test me? What kind of help is available for him? Am I just supposed to stay here and deal with this? With  He's a Porn Addict...Now What?: An Expert and a Former Addict Answer Your Questions , you'll get pertinent answers from both sides of the equation: from a therapist and from a former pornography addict. Review/comment This is the most helpful book for porn addicts and the people who (still) love them. One of most courageous and timely books to h
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A Publisher's Conversation with Authors: Expectations that inflate the soul; realities that deflate the heart

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  It is Tuesday. Monday's madness is over, and Wednesday will take us over the hump, so Tuesday it is--for some serious discussion with authors. Tuesday talks mean to address authors in waiting and self-published authors who would like to go a more traditional route or who would at least like to take their steps with a publisher by their side.  This week's conversation addresses the hopes that authors bring to their writing and the realities they get handed. Perhaps some of those hopes should be called delusions (too harsh a word for sure, but the kinds of expectations -- I have written a book that is going to make me rich -- some authors bring with them in seeking publication really do not match reality, and it is sometimes hard for publishers to help them understand objectively how difficult book sales are. When authors find out the reality, many give up, which hurts authors and publishers alike. Let's take a look at what is really going on. Marketers claim that authors a
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