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National Breast Cancer Awareness Month ~~ October

October 2, 2020 By Charlotte Holley Leave a Comment

On the Wings of Pink Angels by Dawn Colclasure

ABOUT THE BOOK:

 “You have cancer.” These are words people dread hearing. But when worse comes to worst, push comes to shove, something wonderful happens. More people come together for support and encouragement. More people participate in “Race for the Cure” events, and more people discover an inner strength within themselves that they never knew they had before. On the Wings of Pink Angels offers a gentle hand through this difficult time, sharing stories that inspire hope, strength, gratitude and courage during a time when someone must fight for his or her life against breast cancer.

Word Count: 32000
Pages to Print: 133  

Buy it at: Smashwords (all formats) ~ Barnes and Noble ~ Amazon 

Also available at many online vendors worldwide. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: 

Dawn Colclasure

Dawn Colclasure is a writer who lives in Oregon. Her articles, essays, poems and short stories have appeared in several newspapers, anthologies, magazines and E-zines. She is the author and co-author of over two dozen books, among them Burning the Midnight Oil: How We Survive as Writing Parents; 365 Tips for Writers: Inspiration, Writing Prompts and Beat the Block Tips to Turbo Charge Your Creativity; Love is Like a Rainbow: Poems of Love and Devotion; On the Wings of Pink Angels: Triumph, Struggle and Courage Against Breast Cancer; A Ghost on Every Corner; The Yellow Rose and her latest novels, Faded Reflection and Imprint.

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National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month was founded in 1985 by a variety of health and medical organizations promoting the message of breast cancer awareness.

You can visit the site here: http://www.nbcam.org/

And here is the Wiki page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Breast_Cancer_Awareness_Month

Since its inception, businesses and charities across the globe have stepped up to do their part in the fight against breast cancer. Major corporations such as ValPak, Walmart and Lands End have participated in NBCAM in some form or another. They have distributed flyers and informational documents about breast cancer among employees and customers, created support groups to help those with breast cancer and created an in-house breast cancer screening program. Even the government has done its part in participating in NBCAM, by including a message about breast cancer on government employee pay stubs during the month of October.

Over the years, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month has been a month of challenges, inspiration, support—as well as controversy. A local breast imaging center in Eugene, Oregon started a “Make Time for the Girls” campaign during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in 2010. The idea of calling breasts “the girls” was met with a public outcry, spurring many residents to complain to their local newspaper about such insensitivity. Still, the campaign persevered. Another year when NBCAM rolled around, many people on Facebook shared a status update saying, “Let’s find a cure for ALL cancers, not just breast cancer.” The purpose of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month is to promote awareness and support for anyone fighting for their life against breast cancer. Yes, we do want an end to ALL cancers one day, but let us remember that this special month was not created to slight the other cancers, or even to dismiss the struggles of those afflicted with other cancers. Let us march forward with our pink ribbons spreading the message that the fight against breast cancer, and indeed all cancers worldwide, must continue to go strong.
 

Beating Time At Its Own Game: Life Begins With Cancer

by Carolyn Howard-Johnson

The day after my biopsy, my husband and I drove to Las Vegas on a business trip, never thinking about possibilities. We stopped at the state line for a ride on the giant Ferris wheel. We shelled giant prawns for lunch at the Stardust buffet. We slid quarters into a slot machine—the old fashioned kind I like with spinning cherries that will surely triple my money and spill the winnings into a silver trough.

That was not a bad approach at the time. There is no reason to assume the worst, to project abject possibilities that may never come to pass onto the present. Denial is sometimes very useful. On the other hand, it often keeps one from examining one’s own behavior, one’s own motivations. I share this anecdote because it illustrates how thoroughly denial had become entrenched in my life.

I was raised in times that were not easy for women. Most of the barriers I faced were ones that couldn’t be seen nor acknowledged because I didn’t know they were there. They crept up silently on padded feet and, if I sensed them at all, I chose not to turn and face them.

This faculty for denial was intact and very healthy when I was diagnosed with cancer. By 3 p.m. that day, the picture was not so jolly. We had to return home so I could begin autogenous blood donations. The risk of AIDS in the blood supply was still high; my doctor believed that we should have my own blood on hand in case it was needed.

My first reaction was true to pattern. I reassured myself that everything was going to be just fine, that I wasn’t nervous, that cancer was not a terrifying word. Unfortunately, my doctor had not sounded especially positive when he demanded that we set a surgery date in that moment, over the phone.

My husband was also up to the task. “We won’t work today. We’ll just take off, have some fun and drive back tonight.” We were two peas in a pod. We’d both try anything other than just saying, “Gee, I’m scared.”

I almost went along with that plan. Instead, I used the time on the open road to meditate. In that time, I realized—sort of knew at a cellular level—that I had to do more than donate blood to myself and that cancer doesn’t just happen.

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Bard’s World Genre – Poetry, Songs and Lyrics

August 19, 2016 By Charlotte Holley Leave a Comment

Poetry writing is not a lost art – all types of poetry and lyrics provide a backdrop for our daily lives. Bard’s World is a special and limited genre, with some special offerings the editor couldn’t pass up!

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AUTHOR

From Midnight Until Dawn by P. J. Caiden

From Midnight Until Dawn

P. J. Caiden

Hymns to the Battlecrow by Teel James Glenn

Hymns to the Battlecrow

Teel James Glenn

Love is Like a Rainbow by Dawn Colclasure

Love is Like a Rainbow

Dawn Colclasure

Songs of the Dead by Dawn Colclasure

Songs of the Dead

Dawn Colclasure

Taking up the Runes by P. J. Caiden

Taking Up the Runes

P. J. Caiden

Contact me (Denise at dbartlett at gypsyshadow.com ) if you’d like to review, you’ll have a chance at a free book!

Have a great day and READ!

Gypsy Shadow Publishing will be celebrating its seventh year in business in September. We are primarily an eBook publisher based online, although we have almost 50 books in print! Please drop by and check out our more than 250 eBooks by almost 100 authors. (Including the owners of the company!

Denise Bartlett, Chief Editor GSPDenise Bartlett is Gypsy Shadow Publishing’s Chief Editor and acquisitions editor. She delights in working with established authors to tighten up their manuscripts and their messages and in working with brand new authors to bring their dream of being a published author to fruition. Visit her on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/DeniseBartlett.ChiefEditorGSP/

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The Grove – Nonfiction books

August 15, 2016 By Charlotte Holley Leave a Comment

The Grove holds our nonfiction offerings, except History. All ebooks are sold at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other fine booksellers, our print books through distributors – brick and mortar and online – around the world.

The books here are the ones you wouldn’t find in fiction at your local library – memoirs, hunting and fishing, parenting and other subject matter grace the pages of these volumes. … from Dentistry to developing the meditation skills of Qigong.

Nonfiction - A Ghost on Every Corner

A Ghost on Every Corner

…a collection of interviews and accounts from paranormal investigators,  recounting field investigations in some of America’s most haunted cities.

Dawn Colclasure

Nonfiction - Circle of Magic

Circle of Magic

A deep and true study of Qigong and Chinese tradition meditations, helpful to health and understanding many  mysteries of the world.

Chavdar Gradinarsky

Nonfiction - Dentistry - For Better or Worse

Dentistry – For Better or Worse

Some personal thoughts and advice for lay people about dentistry. Things you always wanted to know about dentistry, but were afraid to ask.

Charles Reap

Nonfiction - Guns Over Africa

Guns Over Africa

An affirmation of sport hunting in Africa, and in this context, hunting that contributes to the economy of developing countries within the rules of international wildlife conservation and preservation.

Jamel DuBois

Nonfiction - Hits and Misses

Hits and Misses

These accounts of shooting birds and hunting big game mostly relate the author’s adventures in North America—Canada and The United States. Game species encountered, or hoped to encounter, include mule deer, whitetail deer, blacktail deer, pronghorn antelope, elk, bear, turkey and geese.

Jim Woods

Nonfiction - Memoirs of a Jobseeker

Memoirs of a Jobseeker

When Ian Mason’s contract with Snapper Search, Inc. in Dublin, Ireland is not renewed, he embarks on a journey of desperate job seeking that carries him across the Emerald Isle and beyond. (A fictional account of some real life experiences)

Ivano Massari

Nonfiction - My Journey

My Journey

Jim Woods was a sports hunter writer, outdoorsman and game hunter. Follow his journey from his early beginnings in the Navy through many hunting adventures, both in the Eastern and Western hemispheres as he searches for and bags trophy game.

Jim Woods

Nonfiction - On the Wings of Pink Angels

On the Wings of Pink Angels

… offers a gentle hand through this difficult time, sharing stories that inspire hope, strength, gratitude and courage during a time when someone must fight for his or her life against breast cancer.

Dawn Colclasure

Nonfiction - Out of a Dentist's Mouth

Out of a Dentist’s Mouth

Vignettes of a number of personal happenings while practicing dentistry—some happy, some otherwise. Who says one cannot be happy in the dental office?

Charles Reap

Parenting Pauses: Life as a Deaf Parent

Parenting Pauses: Life as a Deaf Parent

… will give readers, both deaf and hearing, an inside look into the world of one deaf parent, along with some tips and techniques learned along the way.

Dawn Colclasure

Nonfiction - So You Want to be an Author?

So You Want to be an Author?

Although this book takes up little space and weight, it most importantly provides immediate answers to questions about grammar, spelling, punctuation and writing style.

Jim Woods

Nonfiction - Taking Up the Runes

Taking Up the Runes

Poetry and divination meet in this small but power-packed volume: Taking Up The Runes ascribes a thought-provoking haiku poem to each of the ancient runic symbols. Both upright and reversed runes are represented here in the spirit of the runic tradition.

P. J. Caiden

Nonfiction books

other than history. Legends Genre includes History.

Contact me (Denise at dbartlett at gypsyshadow.com ) if you’d like to review, you’ll have a chance at a free book!

Have a great day and READ!

Gypsy Shadow Publishing will be celebrating its seventh year in business in September. We are primarily an eBook publisher based online, although we have almost 50 books in print! Please drop by and check out our more than 250 eBooks by almost 100 authors. (Including the owners of the company!

Denise Bartlett, Chief Editor GSPDenise Bartlett is Gypsy Shadow Publishing’s Chief Editor and acquisitions editor. She delights in working with established authors to tighten up their manuscripts and their messages and in working with brand new authors to bring their dream of being a published author to fruition. Visit her on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/DeniseBartlett.ChiefEditorGSP/

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