Healing With Words Virtual Book Tour July & August ‘10

“Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.”
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Join Diana Raab, author of the memoir, Healing With Words: A Writer’s Cancer Journey (Loving Healing Press), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in July and August ‘10 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Diana M. Raab is an essayist, memoirist, poet and author blogger who teaches in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program and at various conferences around the country. She’s editor of the anthology, Writers and Their Notebooks (University of South Carolina Press, January 2010). Her memoir, Regina’s Closet: Finding My Grandmother’s Secret Journal (Beaufort Books, 2007) won the 2008 National Indie Excellence Award for Memoir and the 2009 Mom’s Choice Award for Adult Nonfiction.

She has three poetry collections, My Muse Undresses Me (2007), Dear Anaïs: My Life in Poems for You (2008), winner of The Reader Views Award and Allbooks Review Editor’s Choice, and The Guilt Gene (2009).

She’s the recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Book Award for best health and wellness book for Getting Pregnant and Staying Pregnant: Overcoming Infertility and High Risk Pregnancy which has been translated into French and Spanish. In 2009 the book was released in its 20th anniversary edition, under the title, Your High Risk Pregnancy: A Practical and Supportive Guide updated in collaboration with Dr. Errol Norwitz of Yale School of Medicine.

Her latest book is Healing With Words: A Writer’s Cancer Journey.

You can visit her website at www.dianaraab.com.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

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 multiple myeloma. This 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 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.

Read the Excerpt!

(coming soon)

Here’s what reviewers are saying about Healing With Words: A Writer’s Cancer Journey!

“Though I am a professional writer, it’s hard to find words for the admiration I feel for Diana Raab and her inspiring true story: Healing With Words. Time after time, Diana articu¬lates incisively the thoughts and feelings that convey hoped-for meaning and encouragement. She 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. That she includes the creative impulse to write and the sol¬ace offered by contemplating the beautiful as a vital part of human existence resonates at a spiritual level for me.”

Sena Jeter Naslund, author, Ahab’s Wife and Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette

“I applaud the I applaud the author for having the courage to share her very personal story in the form of narrative, journal entries and poems. I understand that everyone reacts and copes differently to the diagnosis of breast cancer and naturally everyone’s story is unique, but this author’s journey may serve as a guidepost for other women, motivating women to seek early detection.

Melvin J. Silverstein, MD Director, Breast Program, Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, Newport Beach, CA

“One woman’s story, beautifully told and inspiring to those for whom journaling will ease a cancer diagnosis.”

Barbara Delinsky, author UPLIFT: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors

Watch the trailer!

Healing With Words: A Writer’s Cancer Journey Tour Schedule

Tuesday, July 6
Guest blogging at The Story Behind the Book

Wednesday, July 7
Interviewed at Paperback Writer

Thursday, July 8
Guest blogging “Does Genre Category Really Matter?” at Blogging Authors

Friday, July 9
Book spotlighted at The Book Connection

Monday, July 12
Interviewed at Book Marketing Buzz

Tuesday, July 13
Guest blogging at Writing Daze

Wednesday, July 14
Interviewed at As the Pages Turn

Wednesday, July 21
Book reviewed at Books R Us
Guest blogging at Life in the First Draft

Monday, July 26
Guest blogging at Literarily Speaking

Friday, July 30
Book reviewed at Along the Way

Wednesday, August 5
Interviewed at Beyond the Books

Monday, August 9
Book reviewed at Good Girl Gone Reading

Tuesday, August 10
Book reviewed at Paperback Writer

Friday, August 13
Book reviewed at Simply Stacie

Monday, August 16
Book reviewed at Long Beach Examiner

Book reviewed at Colloquium

Thursday, August 19
Book reviewed at 4 the Love of Books

Tuesday, August 24
Book reviewed at The Book Connection

Wednesday, August 25
Book reviewed at Pump Up Your Book

Thursday, August 26
Book reviewed at You Have How Many Kids?

Friday, August 27
Interviewed on A Book and a Chat Radio Show

Diana M. Raab’s  HEALING WITH WORDS VIRTUAL BLOG TOUR ‘10 will officially begin on July 6  and end on August 27 2010.

Diana’s tour is finalized.  Thanks to all participating blog hosts!

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