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WOW! Women On Writing announces Diana Raab's blog tour!
Blog Tour dates:
July 12, 2010 - August 12, 2010
Come and join the fun! Meet Diana and visit her fabulous blog hostesses.
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Dear ,
"Journaling is like a daily vitamin--in that it heals, detoxifies, and is essential for optimal health." ~ Diana Raab
Do you love journaling? Do you want to learn how journaling can help with the healing process? Then this tour is for you!
When Diana Raab was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of forty-seven, she turned to journaling as a way to help ease the pain and release bottled-up emotions. Diana says, "When it hurts, write harder." And her book, Healing with Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey, shares some of these journal entries, along with reflections, poetry, and writing prompts for readers to express their own stories.
In today's interview, we chat with Diana about her book, when she started writing, journaling, and what inspires her to write. Stop by The Muffin today and comment for a chance to win a signed copy of Healing with Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey. Proceeds from the sale of this book are donated to the Mayo Clinic Foundation.
If you have a question about journaling, writing to heal, or anything else, stop by and ask Diana a question. She'll be checking in and chatting with WOW! readers today, so be sure to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity.
Also, we give Diana major kudos for taking on two blog tours (Yes, I said two! One with us and one with Reader Views.) and planning her daughter's wedding all at the same time! Oh Diana, you're a stronger woman than us!
If you'd like to host Diana on your blog, please e-mail us with your request. Also, be sure to check out our upcoming tours in the sections below.
~ Angela & Jodi ~ (Your Hostesses)
** Feel free to copy any part of this e-mail and share it on your own blog or in your newsletter.
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 About Diana:
Diana is the author of eight books. Her first memoir, Regina's Closet: Finding My Grandmother's Secret Journal (2007) was the recipient of the 2009 Mom's Choice Award for Adult Non-Fiction, and the 2009 National Indie Award for Excellence in Memoir. Her award-winning work has been published in numerous literary magazines and is widely anthologized. She has one poetry chapbook, My Muse Undresses Me, and two poetry collections, Dear Anais: My Life in Poems For You (winner of the 2009 Next Generation Indie Award for Poetry) and The Guilt Gene (2009).
After experiencing three successful, but high-risk pregnancies, she wrote a comprehensive guide for other women. The award-winning Getting Pregnant and Staying Pregnant (1989) was updated and revised in collaboration with Dr. Errol Norwitz of Yale School of Medicine under the new title, Your High Risk Pregnancy: A Practical and Supportive Guide (2009).
Diana is also editor of the anthology, Writers and Their Notebooks (USC Press 2010), a collection of essays written by distinguished writers who journal, including Sue Grafton, Kim Stafford, Dorianne Laux, John DuFresne, James Brown and Michael Steinberg, to name a few. The foreword is written by world-renowned personal essayist, Phillip Lopate.
Diana's latest book, Healing with Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey, reflects her experiences battling breast cancer at age forty-seven, and then multiple myeloma, a type of bone marrow cancer, when she was fifty-two.
Diana currently teaches creative journaling and memoir in the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. She facilitates workshops in journaling and writing for healing around the country, and is a frequent moderator for panels on writing.
Author's Websites:
Website: http://www.dianaraab.com
Blog:
http://dianaraab.com/blog/Facebook Fan Page : http://www.facebook.com/HealingWithWords
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 Healing with Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey
By Diana M. Raab
Healing With Words:
A Writer's Cancer Journey is a compassionate
and wry self-help memoir written by an award-winning prolific author,
nurse and poet, who at the age of forty-seven found her life shattered
first by a DCIS (early breast cancer) diagnosis and five years later by
another, seemingly unrelated and incurable cancer--multiple myeloma.
The book includes the author's experiences, reflections, poetry and
journal entries, in addition to writing prompts for readers to express
their own personal story. Raab's journals have provided a safe haven
and platform to validate and express her feelings. Raab views
journaling to be like a daily vitamin--in that it heals, detoxifies and
is essential for optimal health.
Readers will learn to:
- Understand the importance of early cancer detection and how to take control of their own health
- Discover the power of writing to release bottled-up emotions
- Learn how the process of journaling can facilitate healing
- See how a cancer diagnosis can be a riveting event which can renew and change a person in a unique way
"Diana Raab is a woman who knows what it is to live fully in the face of mortality. She will add value to the life of every person who reads this book." ~ Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife and Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette
"One woman's story, beautifully told and inspiring to those for whom journaling will ease a cancer diagnosis." ~ Barbara Delinsky, author of Uplift: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors
Paperback: 206 pages
Publisher: Loving Healing Press
(May 2010)
ISBN: 1615990100
Healing with Words is
available for purchase at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and
both chain and independent bookstores nation wide.
Author's proceeds from the sale of this book are donated to benefit the Mayo Clinic Foundation.
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Do you want to participate in our blog partnership program?
Email Angela & Jodi, your tour guides.
If you'd like to host Diana Raab or one of our upcoming authors on your blog, Email Angela & Jodi with your request.
If you're an author interested in promoting your latest book with WOW! Women On Writing Blog Tours please email us for more info.
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Let's Kick Off the Blog Tour!
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Ready to go traveling around the web? The following are the tour dates for Diana Raab. Each stop is worth visiting and is filled with inspiration! Many include book giveaways, so be sure to check the listings. As you view the listings, make note of these wonderful blogs. Each one of them, a treasure, and a place that many readers call home. In a noisy online world, you will find sanctuary in these true gems. July 12, 2010 Monday (Today!)
The Muffin
Diana will be chatting with WOW ! Women
On Writing at The Muffin. One lucky
commenter will win a copy of her book!
http://muffin.wow-womenonwriting.com/ ---------- July 13, 2010 TuesdayCancer SpotStop by My Breast Cancer Blog for a peek inside Diana Raab's book, Healing with Words. You can also enter to win her book!
http://cancerspot.org/---------- July 14, 2010 Wednesday
Writers Inspired
Today at Writers Inspired Diana Raab writes about the link between creativity and depression. She's also giving away a copy of her latest book, Healing with Words.
http://writerinspired.wordpress.com/---------- July 15, 2010 Thursday
Mom-e-Centric
Stop by Mom-e-Centric to meet author Diana Raab, and enter to win her book, Healing with Words!
http://www.momecentric.com/---------- July 16, 2010 Friday
Selling Books
What inspired you to begin writing? Diana Raab, who can claim a shelf full of books to her name, tells us what started her on her writing journey.
http://www.sellingbooks.com/author-interview----------- July 20, 2010 Tuesday
Self-Help Daily
Diana Raab shares her thoughts on the link between creativity and depression today at Self-Help Daily. Are depressed people that are also creative an exception to the rule?
http://www.selfhelpdaily.com/---------- July 22, 2010 Thursday
Beyond Breast Cancer
Author Diana Raab shares the secrets to writing a healing poem today. You also have a chance to win her latest book, Healing with Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey!
http://beyondbreastcancer.wordpress.com/---------- July 27, 2010 Tuesday
Silver & Grace
Eliza will be reviewing Diana Raab's latest book, Healing with Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey, today at Silver & Grace. Stop by and read her thoughtful review!
http://silverandgrace.com/
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July 29, 2010 Thursday
Spirituality and Self-Help
Stop by this wonderful blog today to learn some techniques for coping with life's craziness from author Diana Raab. http://superenlightme.com/----------
August 3, 2010 Tuesday
Write for a Reader
Author Diana Raab will be sharing a special memory about her love of books today. You can also enter to win a copy of her book!http://www.writeforareader.blogspot.com/---------- August 3, 2010 Tuesday
Silver & Grace
Diana returns to Silver & Grace to give away her book, Healing with Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey.
http://silverandgrace.com/
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August 5, 2010 Thursday
Crazy Sexy Life
Diana stops by Kris Carr's blog Crazy Sexy Life to tell us how creativity and depression can coexist. Last chance to win a copy of Healing with Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey!
http://crazysexylife.com/
---------- August 10, 2010 Tuesday
Silver & Grace
Diana returns to Silver & Grace to answer a few questions about her latest book Healing with Words.
http://silverandgrace.com/
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We have more dates to come, so be sure to check out our Events Calendar HERE.
If you have a blog and would like to host Diana, please e-mail us with your request and link to your blog.
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Want to host one of our touring authors?
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 Upcoming Author Tours: If
you have a blog or website and would like to host one of our authors below, we are still accepting a few choice blogs to participate in our
Partnership Program.
Come and join the fun! Please email Angela & Jodi at blogtour@wow-womenonwriting.com and put "Blog Tour Partnership" in the subject line. Please tell us the author you are interested in and your available
dates. We'll get back to you with the details if you are accepted. We
look forward to hearing from you!
Content for your blog: All of our touring authors are available for interviews, or they will provide a guest post on a topic relating to the writing process or their book.
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 Tour Dates: July
19, 2010 - August 20, 2010
Title: Accidental Cowgirl: Six Cows, No Horse and No Clue
Author: Mary Lynn Archibald
Genre: Memoir/Humor
Synopsis: Carl dreamed of wide open spaces...think Bonanza here...while Mary Lynn dreamed of gardens overflowing with flowers, elegance and thoroughbred horses...think Town and Country here. Accidental Cowgirl is the tale of their search for the perfect retirement spot and the unexpected place they ended up calling home. When they purchased Twin Creeks Ranch their dreams were quickly replaced by a reality of ornery irrigation systems, calluses, and wild turkeys. And that was just the first week!
If you've ever found yourself smack dab in the middle of a wacky adventure or even just wished for a wacky adventure, don't miss the tale of this couple who went from city dwellers to cowhands with the signing of a deed. Will they survive? Will the cows? Would you?
** Accidental Cowgirl was declared a finalist for three awards: the Next Generation Indie Book Awards for Humor, the Next Generation Indie Book Awards for Memoir, and the National Best Book Awards (NBBA) for humor.
 About the Author:Mary Lynn Archibald grew up on an apple and chicken farm in Soquel, California and went on to be a chorus girl, an herb grower, a teacher, a ballerina, a switch board operator, an interior designer and a model. She did not intend to add cattle farmer to that list. But there was a tiny town called Zenia, a husband longing for "vistas," and a dream of elegant country living. And without warning she was plucked from comfy city living and plunked back on the farm. When she isn't mucking out stables, Mary Lynn is a copywriter, editor, and author. Her first book, Briarhopper, was written about a woman's journey from the coal region of Kentucky to California from the early 1900's to World War II. She has also written about interior design, gardening, real estate, business communications and (surprise!) farming and ranching. With her partner-in-crime Carl and dog Fizzbo, Mary Lynn now spends her days in the country trying to get the dirt out from under her fingernails.
Author's Websites:
Business website: http://www.winecountrywriter.com
Book website: http://www.accidentalcowgirl.com
Goodies:
You will receive a
copy of Mary Lynn's book Accidental Cowgirl.
Participate! Please
email us with "Blog
Tour Partnership" in the subject line and your available
dates. We schedule 2-3 stops per week from July 19th - August 20th. We
look
forward to hearing from you!
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 Tour Dates: July 26, 2010 - August 27, 2010
Title: The Quick and the Thread: An Embroidery Mystery
Author: Amanda Lee (a.k.a. Gayle Trent)
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Synopsis: First in a new mystery series that will have readers stitching--and itching--for more...
Marcy Singer has big plans: a move to the breathtaking Oregon coast, opening an embroidery shop called The Seven Year Itch, and a fun grand opening stitch-in. What she doesn't plan on is the shop's old owner showing up--DEAD--in her shop. Some people think Marcy killed him. Some people think she's the next victim. All Marcy knows is someone has to uncover the murderer before she's forced to flip the sign on her shop door to CLOSED permanently. And it looks like that someone might be Marcy.
 About the Author:
Amanda Lee is the lady next to you in the grocery line or car pool. She has twins: one boy and one girl, she's a baseball fan, she likes to decorate cakes, she rocks at Guitar Hero...oh, and she likes to think about murder. But it's okay! She only writes about murder--a lot.
Amanda Lee is also Gayle Trent, author of the Daphne Martin Cake Decorating series that includes Dead Pan and Murder Takes the Cake.
Author's Websites:
Website: http://www.gayletrent.com
Blog: http://www.gayletrent.com/blog/
Goodies:
You will receive a
copy of Amanda Lee's book The Quick and the Thread.
Participate! Please
email us with "Blog
Tour Partnership" in the subject line and your available
dates. We schedule 2-3 stops per week from July 26th - August 27th. We
look
forward to hearing from you!
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We hope you'll join us on Diana Raab's book blog tour for Healing with Words. It will be an inspiring journey! We'd
love for you all to get involved and join us in a virtual vacation.
Take a trip across the globe by participating in this tour. Each stop
shares a different point of view, a new topic, and has its own unique
voice. We'd love to hear yours too, so come along for the ride, and
we'll be looking for your comments!
And don't forget to visit The Muffin today and comment for a chance to win a copy of Diana's inspiring book, Healing with Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey!
Write on!
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Angela, Jodi, & Team WOW!
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