MSI Press Blog

  Julie Gentile, author of 108 Yoga and Self-Care Practices for Busy Mamas and How to Stay Calm in Chaos, penned an article for Chicago Parent : "5 No-Cost Self-Care Tips to Help You Get through a Pandemic." To read the article and find out what those tips are --- they are good ones -- click on the title of the magazine. To read more posts on Julie and her books, click HERE .

  We thought that Sula at Old Mission San Juan Bautista was special -- she has hundreds, a few thousand actually, of followers on her Face Book page and fans who comes from other cities and states to visit her, but a stray cat that found her way into Southwark Cathedral in England years ago and lived there until she died recently was memorialized at a funeral service and laid to rest in the church -- and 7000 people viewed of her memorial service. One word only comes to mind: Wow! Read about the memorial service HERE . Read more about Doorkins Magnificat HERE . Read more Caturday posts HERE .

  Congratulations to Colette McNeil on her book,  Understanding the Challenge of "No" for Children with Autism , being selected as the  Kops-Fetherling International Book Awards  legacy award in the category of education.   “The author invites you on a journey in unfolding small layers of awareness,  illuminating how thoughtfully chosen vocabulary can greatly enhance your relationship with a child with autism. The pages within are filled with teachable tales exploring the communication, emotional regulation and relationship difficulties that common habitual language may trigger when engaging children with autism. Each tale absorbs the reader in a typical life scenario related to specific usage of the word, no, creating an engaging, informative, and personally relatable experience. Discussions following embed autism education and psychology theories to promote conceptualization and offer suggestions for enriched interactions.” Read more posts about Cole...

Recently received a very nice review of Women, We're Only Old Once  ( Bertha Cooper ) by Barbara Bamberger Scott (quite a tough reviewer, in our experience). From the review: " In constructing this lively guide to women's aging ... [that] covers vital information for all women in older years... Cooper bravely takes on complex issues like sexuality in older women, the sense of dread women feel at the possible loss of a partner, and strategies for planning new, post-retirement lifestyles. Whether standing at the brink of a certain age and facing the implications of the next phase of life or fully immersed in its quandaries, Cooper's readers will welcome her intelligent and empathic guidance. Read the full review HERE . Women, We're Only Old Once , just recently published, is already an award-winning book: Best New Voice in Health and Fitness, Kops-Fetherling International Books Award

  Natural Medicine Journal recently published an interview with MSI Press author, Dr. Frederic Craigie: " Spirituality As a Healing Tool ." For posts about Dr. Craigie and his award-winning book, Weekly Soul , click HERE .

Photo by Frank Perez It is Tuesday. Time to tall turkey. 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. Today's topic continues the discussion from the last two weeks about that lure for every first-time author: the  New York Times  Bestseller List. We talked about the need to sell 5000-10000 books each and every week you want your book to appear on the list, with the understanding that this is not a count of total books sold but an algorithmic approach, using sampling from stores that NYT considers representative of the whole (right or wrong) and might require the number of books sold as a whole to be greater in order to have enough hit the right sampling venues. We talked about the difficulty of do...

  Dr. Liz Bayardelle was recently interviewed by WBOC in an article called " Parenting, Business, and Doing Both at the Same Time." To see more posts about Liz and her books, click HERE .