Book on IVF

[stan]

no book cover picture? for advertising
text is good, but a few pictures inside and outside is a must

[Sheila]

Junior, this is really excellent. The book has a powerful, clear, hopeful arc which describes an archetypal "Hero's Journey" or "descent experience." You have clearly done a lot of work on yourself and I really admire you for it. This book sounds like it will be a real contribution to the fertility literature. I think it will help a lot of people examine themselves more deeply, and open up the potential space for different outcomes being valuable.

Your synopsis is really well-written and a very effective prospectus and advertisement for the manuscript.

Ha! I can't imagine how wise and powerful you're going to be when you have had time to integrate the whole antidepressant journey as well! I really look forward to seeing what you end up doing with it all!

[Junior]

Uhhhhh.... Stan..... I haven't got that far yet!!!

A publisher usually does all the organising for a cover and any other artwork. With the author's permission of course.

[Junior]

Junior, this is really excellent. The book has a powerful, clear, hopeful arc which describes an archetypal "Hero's Journey" or "descent experience." You have clearly done a lot of work on yourself and I really admire you for it. This book sounds like it will be a real contribution to the fertility literature. I think it will help a lot of people examine themselves more deeply, and open up the potential space for different outcomes being valuable.

Your synopsis is really well-written and a very effective prospectus and advertisement for the manuscript.

Ha! I can't imagine how wise and powerful you're going to be when you have had time to integrate the whole antidepressant journey as well! I really look forward to seeing what you end up doing with it all!

Thanks Sheila. I appreciate your kind words. It's funny, I was just thinking yesterday that I didn't find it hard to write the book. I had a journal, and a mass of 'stuff' that I'd written along the way (when I am emotional I write, it's my way of coping) and all I really had to do was put it all together. It's almost like the book wrote itself really. I noticed something else recently too. I'm studying a Grad Cert in Counselling and I'm currently doing Loss and Grief. Well my book kind of shows an overall grief reaction. Not that I didn't realise how much I'd grieved - LOL - but it's a really good example of how grief manifests.

As for my next book - well.....

[Sheila]

It's almost like the book wrote itself really.

Love this! A sign of really being in the flow.

[Junior]

Love this! A sign of really being in the flow.

Is this a good thing?

[Sheila]

"Flow" is a fabulous thing --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_%28psychology%29

[Junior]

LOL! I'm not sure that's how the book got written. What I meant was that the material was already there because I'd kept journals and things along the way. All I had to do was weave it together and that happened sporadically over a couple of years. I was at uni at the time (doing psychology, but not 'positive psychology' ) so I worked on it between semesters.

[Luc]

Hey, Junior. So belatedy on my part, but still, congratulations on your book. Not quit sure where you're right now in terms of publishing routes, but the self-publishing often works wonders. And yes, the cathartic side of it cannot be overestimated - you externalize/metabolize your pain. I have my personal diary of WD - sometimes adding even as little as a sentence a week if the times are bad, but managed to keep track of things of WD and the pre-WD time. It helps a lot. Everybody should try it. Please, keep us updated! Your book will help others to cope with their traumas and grief in a big way. Chapeau bas! ----->

[Junior]

You know Luc, you really should get your butt on this site more often. I miss you so much when you're not here and love it when you are.

Thank you for your comments above. I'm actually not doing anything about my book at the moment because I'm about to have lap-band surgery (oops, don't think I've told anyone here ... sorry folks) and I'm focussing on that. But I plan to get back to it once things have settled and -well probably after Xmas now. I'm not working at the moment and have a few months up my sleeve - going back o/seas in May / June so won't be looking for another job until we get back - so I plan to study and work on somehow getting my book out there during that time.