The Story behind the Book: Divorced!

 


As editor, I will have to tell the author's story of Divorced! Survival Techniques for Singles over Forty -- or at least as much of it as I knew about -- since the author, Joanna Romer passed away a few years ago, in the middle of writing her tenth book.

Joanna had written several other books prior to Divorced! Survival Techniques for Singles Over Forty, include the award-winning books, Widow and The Widower's Guide to as New Life! These books were based on her experiences after her husband, Milton, director of Stand by Me, died and prompted by them.  While she had not been divorced, being a widow had some of the same circumstances as being a divorcee, especially some of the same emotions and insecurities -- ones that she share with other women in similar circumstances. She wrote to help shape her own thinking and emotional understanding; she wrote even more so to help other women in the same cirumstances.

Joanna's books have always been popular, even after her death. I think that is because she wrote about human issues in very human ways. She did not rely only on her own experience, but for each of her books, she found a dozen or more people coping with the issue in varying ways and with varying amounts of success and interviewed them. From there, she was able to draw conclusions, make recommendations, and suggest tasks (things to try out) for readers. As a professor of journalism, she found this approach to self-help comfortable. Indeed, it seems that readers do, too.

This book and all Joanna's books can be obtained at significant discount at the MSI Press webstore. For any that are not already on sale, use coupon code FF25 and get an automatic 25% discount.

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