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  Recently released: audiobook edition of  How to Be a Good Mommy When You're Sick  by Dr. Emily Graves. Book description: Soon after receiving her Bachelor's Degree, Emily Graves was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis and given a prognosis that she would be confined to a wheelchair within ten years. Shortly thereafter, pregnant with her first and only child, Emily's kidneys shut down. Thus, began a new chapter in Emily's life: balancing chronic illness, motherhood, and the professional ambitions that had caused her to excel as an academic and meet her husband. Today she is still fighting chronic illness, but she has found some answers as to how to manage that fight while being a good mother and spouse and continuing to pursue her professional ambitions. In this book, Emily chronicles the challenges and successes and shares her experience-and tips-with other mothers suffering from chronic illness. A formula for surviving and thriving, this book is meant as a source of ...

    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, the topic is one that authors often push aside in their minds or whose significance authors don't fully realize: an author's responsibility for promotion and marketing. The ostrich approach will relegate your book to one of the millions on Amazon that are just not selling and to your publisher's backlist. Any new book today is, at minimum, entering into competition with over 32 million books currently listed on Amazon —and thousands more are being written, uploaded, and released every single day. Let that sink in. Even if your book is stellar—well-edited, thoughtfully written, meaningful, and memorable—it will not ...