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  As the year ends, we are taking a look back at some of our popular authors. The first in this series is Betty Shaw, whose book,  One Simple Text . . . ,  written together with Dave Bown has just recently been released as an audiobook (in addition to earlier ebook and paperback editions).  The trip down memory lane "news" we focus on today is an appearance by Betty and her daughter, Liz Marks (the subject of the book) on Delmarvalife .  Book description: It was every parent's worst nightmare. On a sun-drenched morning in April 2012, a Maryland state trooper knocked on Betty Shaw's front door and delivered the grim news that her 17-year-old daughter, Liz, had been involved in a horrible car accident and was clinging to life. Liz recovered from her life-threatening injuries but suffered severe and permanent effects from the accident. Texting while driving caused Liz's crash, and she and her mother went on a mission to educate people about the perils of distracted ...

  Andrew and Kristin Wilcox, authors of  Andrew's Awesome Adventures with His ADHD Brain , were interviewed for PBS recently. A link to the interview will be coming soon. Here is a picture from behind the scenes.  Book description: In this two-part book Andrew and his neuroscientist mom each tell their story about living with the inattentive subtype of ADHD. How do you survive life and middle school with an ADHD elephant in your brain? Kids with ADHD will relate to Andrew's reactions to everyday and school-related situations, like remembering to turn in homework, staying organized, and making friends. Using practical strategies Andrew learns to manage his ADHD even when his brain sometimes feels "like and overstuffed garbage can, the lid won't stay on and garbage is falling out all over the floor". He even realizes there is a positive side to having ADHD like creativity, fearlessness and hyperfocus.   Dr. Wilcox discusses the science behind ADHD, ...

  Kelly James, author of the newly released, popular book  The Book That Almost Got Me Fired , was recently interviewed by Holly Osterman on Real Wisdom with Empart: Relearning the Ropes: A Conversation with Kelly James . CURRENTLY #3 ON AMAZON'S LIST OF HOT NEW RELEASES. Book description: You're 52. Divorced. Single mom to a teenaged son and a tween daughter. Happily self-employed but worried about the cost of health insurance, the inevitable impact of perimenopause on your body, and whether you should keep dating a sexy plumber who's sweet and funny but lives an hour away and doesn't seem that into you. So, after 22 years of fulltime freelancing, you take a day job as a tiny, creaky cog in the corporate American machine where you're decades older than most of your coworkers - and you write about it. The Book That (Almost) Got Me Fired: A Year in Corporate America is an entertaining, midlife memoir that shares what (and what not) to do when you make that corporate ...

  This interview of Nanette Hucknall, author of  How to Live from Your Heart  and co-author of  The Rose and the Sword ,  is not entirely recent, but in case anyone missed it, it is worth listening to. It is not dated. Listen here:  XETV-TV San Diego Living, How To Live From the Heart (youtube.com)                                    How to Live from Your Heart  has won the following awards: Book of the Year finalist Best Books Award finalist Book Excellence Award Pinnacle Book Achievement Award Readers' Favorites Book Award finalist Kops-Fetherling International Books Legacy Award: Self/Help For more posts about Nanette and her books, click  HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with  MSI Press LLC ? Check out information o...