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  Today's daily excerpt comes from  How to Be a Good Mommy When You're Sick  by Emily Graves. Introduction: My Story   When women with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) get pregnant, their RA goes into remission. At least, that’s what my doctor told my husband, Robert, and me when we went in to discuss the possibility of having a baby. At that time, we both were professors with busy careers. I was 28, and according to my doctors, my RA was on “cruise control”. Thus, we were given a big “thumbs up” from the medical community to get pregnant. I would not trade our son for the world, but, boy, were they wrong! There was no remission for me, not unless remission means running head first into kidney failure and an abrupt pause in my career. After many months of discussions with baffled doctors, biopsies, and blood tests, I was diagnosed with Essential Mixed Cryoglobulinemia Type II—a complication of my RA that was causing kidney failure. I was officially the complicated, rare cas...

    Today's publisher's pride is  Learning to Feel  by Kris Girrell -- #151 in the Amazon category of social and psychological biographies. AWARDS Independent Press Distinguished Favorite Award Literary Titan gold award For more posts about Kris and his books, click  HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC monthly newsletter (recent releases, sales/discounts, awards, reviews, Amazon top 100 list, author advice, and more -- stay up to date)   Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC?  We help writers become award-winning published authors. One writer at a time. We are a family, not a factory. Do you have a future with us? Turned away by other publishers because you are a first-time author and/or do not have a strong platform yet? If you have a strong manuscript, San Juan Books, our hybrid publishing division, may be able to help. Check out information on  how to subm...

Today's story Literary Titan Book Awards Gold Award Today's story behind the book tells the tale behind   Surviving Cancer, Healing People  by Sula.  From the author --  The book content started from a story that I (Elizabeth Mahlou, amanuensis for Sula, wrote for a Christmas issue of the well-known mag, Guideposts . That story became a local favorite. At the same time, the Mission was under state scrutiny for safety and needed retrofitting that cost much, more than was in Mission coffers. It seemed that a Sula story might bring some attention -- and financial support -- to the Mission (and it has). Told from the viewpoint and in the voice of Sula, the book shared the story of Sula and her struggle with cancer (a slightly different topic from the Guideposts story, but typical in the same spiritually supportive-to-readers way). Sula went on to "write" five more books, one in Spanish (about the Day of the Dead), chronicling her life along with the life of the Church. ...

  What is a  book jewel ? A sometimes-overlooked book with remarkable insight and potential significance. Each month, we share near-daily, or as often as possible, reviews of the monthly book jewel - short, succinct reviews that can be read in 1-2 minutes with links to the reviewer by reviewers whose words are worthy of being heard and whose opinions are worthy of being considered. Sometimes a couple of minutes contains more impressive thought than ten times that many. We will let you decide that. This month's book jewel is  Of God, Rattlesnakes, and Okra  by J. Bennett Easterling.  Description: A heaping slice of old-fashioned Southern storytelling, this book gives readers a taste of genuine American life that will keep them coming back for more. Join the journey as a preacher's kid survives his father's stern discipline, rattlesnakes, and harvesting okra. The deep-fried characters are unforgettable, and the furry and feathered folks will steal the heart of ani...