The Story behind the Book: One Simple Text... (Shaw and Brown)

 

Today's book back story provides inside information about One Simple Text...(Shaw & Brown). 

From the publisher - 

Betty Shaw and Dave Brown brought to the press a great story. One of tragedy that through patient fortitude, medical skill, and great faith turned into triumph. Of a life almost lost because of one simple text while driving. The what and who of that text I will leave readers to discover. A story that had propelled the author and the protagonist of the story, her daughter, to Oprah Winfrey's TV show.

They had, however, not yet written a book. (Advice here: if you have the opportunity for world-class publicity, get your book done in advance; it is so  helpful for book promotion to have the publicity come after the book and not afterward.)

They needed some help in refining the story into a book that works. That is where MSI Press came in. We do this all the time with first-time authors. We help turn their wonderful but seemingly unmanageable stories into wanna-read, can't-put-down, award-winning books.

The proposed title of the book was From Tragedy to Triumph. That phrase and title, however, is overused and would make it difficult for readers to pick out the Shaw-Brown book among many others with the same or similar titles.

The content of the book, while showing how triumph can come from tragedy, actually revolved around the significance of one text message. Hence, the final title: One Simple Text...

And there you have some inside information about how this book came to be (or, at least, how its title came to be).


Awards
Eric Hoffer Award finalist
American Bookfest Best Books Award finalist
story told on the Oprah Winfrey Show

For more posts about Betty and Dave and their books, click HERE.


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