LIVING WELL

WHOA! I JUST SIGNED TWO CONTRACTS!

No, you're not seeing double. I just signed two contracts to do two academic books with Jones & Bartlett: CLASSROOM SKILLS FOR NURSE EDUCATORS: EVIDENCE-BASED LEARNING and NURSING LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT: CREATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING.

It feels comfortable and less hectic back in the academic saddle. It should, I've been doing this since the 1970s. Do you believe it! More than 30 years! This will make my 21st and 22nd contribution to nonfiction. I think of them as my babies, going out into the world to spread my ideas.

Annie Jennings of anniejenningspr.com, my favorite teleconferencing pr person said yesterday in her superb show on web site pr that she now has two computers on her desk and she's getting twice as much done! She must be because she's featuring at least one fabulous teleconference a week---sometimes two! Check her out.

Anyhoo...guess who now has two computers on her desk. Now if I can only figure out how to clone two more hands on my arms...

Not only that, I'm starting a project to make our days twenty-eight hours long. This, because I'm still writing fiction and trying to get it published, and
just started a videoconferencing grant to teach women how to reduce their anxiety and stress. I've already got two partners in the Women's Resource
Center of Sarasota---a dynamic group of women if I ever saw them, and the Panhandle Rural Health Network. Their Exec Direct. is overworked and
underfunded, but she still found a way to partner with me. Thank you Lisa Lamar, you will be repaid with some sparkling new videoconferencing
equipment when we get funded! Ditto to Janice Zarro and Elaine Taylor at the WRC!

That's it for now. So, stay well...

All Best,

Carolyn

Menopause Italiano

LIVING WELL

Buon Giorno,

Yes, my LIVING WELL WITH MENOPAUSE book is going to be published in Italian!
Scusi, but why are Italians more interested in menopause than say Africans or Germans?
We understand why the French aren't interested---or do we?

Anyway, as soon as my agent works things out with the Italian agent---I wonder what
language they'll speak---it'll be a done deal. Then my advance gets wired to him, he
extracts his percentage---a pretty hefty one since it's a foreign deal---and I get the
rest. Gracie, Italiano.

I can't wait to see how it reads in Italian. I had a group skills book published in
Swedish and German years ago and it was such fun just reading the titles...
How about...Die Krankenschwester als Gruppenleiterin, Theorie un praxis der Gruppenarbeit.

Sounds so authoritarian!

I shan't hold my breath for the money to arrive. My agent tells me these things
take more like months than weeks, but it's a done deal (except for the agent
thing-a-ma-jiggy).

Ciao!

Carolyn