MSI Press Blog

  Congratulations to Dr./Rev Steven Greenebaum, whose book, One Family: Indivisible , has been selected as a category finalist in the Eric Hoffer Awards competition. To read more information about Steven, his books, and his life, click HERE .  To order Steven's book, visit our webstore: One Family: Indivisible . The code FF25 will get you a 25% discount as a fan or friend of MSI Press. Currently, on sale. (Also available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other online sellers as well as many retailers.) Previous Eric Hoffer Award winners among MSI Press authors include Elaine Imady ( Road to Damascus ; first runner up) and Patt Pickett ( The Marriage Whisperer ; honorable mention). 

  The Natural Medicine Journal recently published an interview with MSI Press author. Dr. Frederic Craigie : " Cultivating Resilience in Clinical Practice during Times of Crisis: A conversation with clinical psychologist and educator Frederic Craigie, PhD."  For other posts about Dr. Craigie and his book, Weekly Soul , click HERE .  

Fear  You Can’t Always Hide behind the Toilet  Cat Tale: Shelly lived in a lot of different places: upstate New York, Manhattan, Los Angeles, and even a brief stint in New Mexico. Every time she moved someplace new, she’d be utterly terrified. I signed a lease for a great new apartment in Santa Monica, California. The place seemed ideal for a cat. It had a long layout she could race through, a few steps for jumping fun, and ample sunbeam access. I knew Shelly would love it.  As soon as I got the keys to the empty apartment, I took her over to check it out. I figured she’d enjoy exploring her new digs, especially since there was no pesky furniture to get in the way, but from the moment I turned her loose, she was scared to death, darting out of sight almost immediately.  Of course, it’s easy to find a cat in an apartment with no furniture. She was hiding in the bathroom, wedged behind the toilet. I tried to coax her out with some treats, but she wouldn’t budge. I stepped away

  To the Reader from the Author The book which you, dear reader, have picked up was written approximately twenty years ago. However, the reasons that brought it to the light of day then remain as important today as ever. The first of these reasons is the survival of foreigners who are living entirely surrounded by native speakers of the foreign language. I came to the United States with a decent level of English, but, naturally, I did not feel myself to be on a par with Americans. I am certain that a great many people are suffering and have suffered from this feeling of “linguistic inferiority.” Some people come to accept this feeling. Others try to improve their foreign language. Still others--and I belong to this group--try to find a set of strategies to help them to use the language that they have acquired more effectively. Back then I had already begun to realize the strategic significance of simplifying thoughts in order to be understood; after all, it is better to expr

  Joining our other volumes of this journal -- as well as our other respected foreign language books -- is Volume 7 of the Journal for Distinguished Language Studies . Volume 7 represents a gap year, as the Journal picks up issuance with a new publisher, MSI Press LLC. The purpose of the  Journal for Distinguished Language Studies  (ISSN 1547-7819) is to provide a forum for exchanging information about teaching to and reaching near-native foreign language proficiency for teachers, learners, and professional language users. Areas of interest include research, theory, and practical application. The  Journal for Distinguished Language Studies  has been published annually since 2003. Issue 7 is an exception to the publication schedule and is intended as a bridge issue between the early years, 2003-2010, and the current years, 2020 and later. In the early years, the  Journal for Distinguished Language Studies  was published by the Coalition of Distinguished Language Centers, which closed in

  Dr. Wendy Bruton recently interviewed Julia Aziz, author of Lessons of Labor , on her I Used To Be a Therapist podcast. The topic? " Surrender and Releasing Negative Emotions ." For more posts on Julia and her writings, 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 is about preparing a book for submission. We are talking here about the final version that gets sent to the publisher (after the inquiry and proposal, after the acceptance and contract). There are reasons that you would want to take the extra time to make sure that the book is just as ship-shape as possible: Most publishers have a clause in the contract that allows them to turn down a book after submission if it is not of good enough quality. The cleaner the book, the less expensive for the publisher to copyedit -- should you want to submit another book later, you will be remembere