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I thought I’d gotten this post out for Monday but didn’t realize that my server wasn’t working right!
So, let me take you back a few days on the tour and tell you what’s coming
Monday Nov 17 — We were at Shauna’s Life In Pain. I wrote about how people seem to respond to a new [...]
Earlier today I talked to a woman who attended my last interview about our book with Markell Steele. She’s dealing with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. What she told me reminded me a little bit of the early stages of my journey. She’s at a transition point in her career, which has been thrown off track from [...]
Book Tour Nuggets
The election is over. Whew! Now you can turn back to the business of reading about chronic illness and here are some sites to check out!
Nuggets of info at each site on the appointed day!
The Women, Work and Autoimmune Disease: Keep Working, Girlfriend! virtual book tour is happening. For those who don’t know, a [...]
Women Work and Autoimmune Disease: Keep Working, Girlfriend ! is delighted to announce its whirlwind national book tour. Join me at the kick-off event, Monday Nov. 3, at rhymeswithmigrain.com. The tour closes on Friday Nov.21 at the ici experience .
No, it’s not Kansas and this isn’t your parent’s book tour. These days, [...]
To date, most of our interviews (at least the ones I’ve been a part of) have been pre-recorded events for broadcasting on Internet radio shows. On Thursday, September 25th, Markell Steele, career coach and founder of Futures in Motion, will interview me (Joan) about the most common questions that arise for people who must figure [...]
The Big D for Disclosure
Let’s call it the big, D for “Disclosure”.
The dictionary definition iDictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) – dis·clo·sure
1.
the act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.
2.
that which is disclosed; a revelation.
3.
Patent Law. (in a patent application) the descriptive information imparted by the specification claims, drawings, and models submitted.
In light of chronic illness, [...]
I’ve already written about my job at Brentano’s books, and what happened when I became ill, both on our blog and in our book. I haven’t written about the dream. The bookstore I opened and managed was located in Sherman Oaks, California, just a very short distance from Hollywood. Most of my staff were aspiring [...]
Joan and I were interviewed by Dr. Terri Orbuch, the “Love Doctor” on Voice America Radio (look for Dr. Terri, 08.11.08) about Women, Work and Autoimmune Disease: Keep Working, Girlfriend!
Dr. Terri asked some really good questions, specifically:
Why did we write this?
How do you talk about difficult issues such as chronic illness at [...]
I’d heard that you need to be ready when the media asks, and last week we had a chance to test that out. I woke up and opened email early Wednesday morning (thank goodness I did that) to find a last minute opportunity to fill in for a 30-minute interview with Gary Pozsik on Health, [...]
Last week I “met” a lovely woman ( I could practically hear her accent in her emails!) , Lindsey Middlemiss of FibroAction.org, a UK organization. She’d read Women Work and Autoimmmune Disease: Keep Working, Girlfriend! and wanted to interview me about it and my business.
When bloggers interview, they tend to write a set of questions [...]
