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- Are you an Author, Reader, Publisher, Editor, Agent or Other?
- Author and Speaker and I read as much as humanly possible.
- Do You Have A Website?
- www.ittakesgutstobeme.com
- About Me:
- I am on "The Book Marketing" network and "The New York" network as well. I'm an ex Marine Gulf War vet first and foremost. After that I am a father of one boy, a past substance abuser of all types, a fitness nut, a jack of all tradesman, a felon, a brawler, twice divorced, and a survivor of bipolar illness.
For all I've done (and it's a bunch) bipolar became my whole entire universe. I wallowed in every negative emotion there is to feel and at strengths I didn't know the human mind had the power to drum up. It was killing me...literally.
I've since recovered, although that's supposed to be impossible, I quit every thing I was ever addicted to (except coffee - me and the holy bean have an understanding), and my life just improves in ways I did not see coming.
My story is not believed by some. I've been clinically dead twice, multiple times during each day. I've come out of two comas. I've survived car wrecks, gang attacks, and many other violent physical happenings, not the least of which was the War.
I became someone that others feared, including my own family. Eventually, I simply turned pathetic as bipolar consumed me and robbed me of all my strength, dignity, possessions, freedom, wives, and then my sanity.
I was beyond hope, beyond help for eight years. Somewhere in there I got pissed! The character traits planted in me firmly by the Marines started resurfacing and I took charge. It took me a few years to figure it all out but I did it.
This story and my system, tested by myself, is what's in my book "It Takes Guts To Be Me: How An Ex Marine Beat Bipolarism."
When you read where my life took me and how horrific a place that was, you will feel hope for yourself because I made it out. So can you or your loved one if this is the 6,000 pound gorilla on your back. Trust me.
God's given me countless free passes. There's a reason I'm still drawing air. It's to help you.
- Do you have a blog site?
- http://blog.myspace.com/ittakesgutstobeme
- Favorite Books:
- I can't possibly remember all the books I love but here's some: Anything by Carl Hiaasen, The Da Vinci Method, Anything by Eric Van Lustbader, Desperation, The Talisman, The Rogue Warrior series, Swan Song, The Scream, anything by Clive Barker.
- Favorite Bookstores on land or cyberspace
- Amazon online. Barnes and Noble offline. God I love books!
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Lots of creative types (like writers) have bipolar or something like it. Maybe YOU are the one who needs ME right now!
Please click on this link to order my book:
www.ittakesgutstobeme.com
I spell it all out but not in a painfully clinical way. As I tell my life story, you are brought along on a twisted adventure some have trouble believing is even real. I mean, I've been DEAD twice! Aren't you just a wee bit curious as to what the hell was up with that?
C'mon. Caress the link with the pointer.
www.ittakesgutstobeme.com
The end of the line was staring me right in the face and yet I escaped. You or someone you know can do the same. I figured out a few things and you need to know them. Get my book and get to healin'!
You won't regret it. And thank you!
Please click on this link to order my book:
www.ittakesgutstobeme.com
I spell it all out but not in a painfully clinical way. As I tell my life story, you are brought along on a twisted adventure some have trouble believing is even real. I mean, I've been DEAD twice! Aren't you just a wee bit curious as to what the hell was up with that?
C'mon. Caress the link with the pointer.
www.ittakesgutstobeme.com
The end of the line was staring me right in the face and yet I escaped. You or someone you know can do the same. I figured out a few things and you need to know them. Get my book and get to healin'!
You won't regret it. And thank you!
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Posted on July 9, 2007 at 6:52am —
For maximum effectiveness I am simply pimping my myspace blog.
Hey guys!
I blog 'til my brain weeps over on Myspace. So doing it here would not only be redundant but needlessly punishing to my weary hemispheres. My lobes. Gotta protect my lobes!
I'm a bit of a character and it comes out quite clear in my blog: http://blog.myspace.com/ittakesgutstobeme
"Normal" beyond good health, has always annoyed me and I shun it. I fear it. I can't do it. I always considered that a strength.
… ContinuePosted on June 25, 2007 at 7:30pm — 1 Comment
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I added a few slides of my books to my blogspot. I'm not sure yet if they should stay on or not.Do you have more trouble loading my blogspot with the slides up? Do you like them or are they too distracting?
A Christmas Tree Already
On the way home from work yesterday, I passed a house that already had a lighted and decorated Christmas tree up and showing by the window.Is it not too soon for that? In my mind, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas Season starts. That's when it's fair game to put up a tree and decorations and start shopping. The way things are going this year, I'll be lucky if I get organized enough to decorate a few days before Christmas.
With our dog, Rascal, who lives up to her name, we'll probably go with a fiber optic small tree on top of an end table. One of these days I may pull put the larger tree from the box in the basement and set it up, but not until our doggy is a little more sedate. I don't feel like chasing her to get ornaments out of her mouth. I will be putting up knick knacks, lights inside and decorations on the walls, so it will still look Christmasy. No lights outside because for some reason we have no outlets outside.
While we're on the subject of Christmas trees and such, be sure to add holidays in your books. You can mention decorations and lights or Easter eggs and baskets, or even mattress sales in your descriptions to ground the reader as to the season.
Now, back to that tree I saw. What about you? When do you decorate for Christmas? What do you put up?
Winners and Losers at the CMAs and Life
I love country music and almost every country performer. While watching the CMAs, I enjoyed seeing the winners accept their awards. On the other hand, it was hard for me to see the losers do their best to appear gracious and for the most part succeeding.For every winner, there's a loser. In life and in books, it's the same way. How people react to their good and bad fortune shows what their characters are made of. You don't have to tell a reader who the good guy or bad guy is. Let their actions speak for themselves. The readers are smart enough to figure it out.
PS Can't finish this blog without saying - You Rock, Taylor Swift! You are one smart, talented teenager! Congrats on all your awards, especially, Entertainer of the Year!!!
CMA Awards Tonight and Twitter
One of my favorite shows is on tonight - the CMA Awards. If you're a country music fan, you're probably like me and will be glued to the TV 8pm EST, or in my case 7pm, in the flatlands of Illinois.Almost all my favorite performers will be there, except I hear that Rascal Flatts can't make it.
I'll be on Twitter during the show also. That's part of the fun of it - discussing and dissecting outfits, performers, songs and even commercials, kind of like I'm at a giant party with people who all go for the same thing and want to share.
What about you? What kind of music do you like? Do you tweet during a favorite show or event?
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