President's Day sale! Dear America book

Dear America
A Letter of Comfort and Hope
to a Grieving Nation

Starting tomorrow, Wednesday February 12th, the Kindle edition of my first book, Dear America, will go on sale for one week to celebrate President's Day.

In the United States, we celebrate President's Day on Monday, February 17, 2014, to commemorate the birthdays of both George Washington, the first president of the United States, whose actual birthday is February 22nd, and Abraham Lincoln, who signed the document that ended slavery in the United States, whose actual birthday is February 12th.

On this patriotic day, I'm celebrating by offering Dear America: A Letter of Comfort and Hope to a Grieving Nation at a discounted price.

I wrote Dear America in the days and first few weeks following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The book was published in print by Ampelos Press six months later on March 11, 2002. The Kindle edition released on its tenth anniversary, in 2012.

While the events of September 11th inspired the book, the information in it is timeless. In Dear America, you'll find:

• 10 Things I've Learned About Grief: practical thoughts and information to help you or a friend through the loss of a loved one.
• An intriguing Q & A section answering such questions as "Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God?" and "How can we know if Christianity is true?"
• Ten practical tips to help beginners start reading and understanding the Bible.
• A fascinating presentation of the Bible in only five acts!

Dear America will be on sale:

• Tuesday, February 12, through Saturday, February 15, for only $ .99!
• Then on Sunday, February 16, through Tuesday, February 18, for $1.99.

Don't have a Kindle? No problem. Your computer, tablet, or phone can be your Kindle reader with a download of a free app from Amazon. Find links to Kindle apps here.

I hope you'll grab your copy of Dear America this week and share this sale info with a friend who may also benefit from it. This small book has been called "inspiring," "practical," and "uplifting." If you find it so, please leave a note as a review on Amazon to let others know. Thank you.

Please use the Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and Pinterest buttons below to share. You never know who may need this book ... today. Thank you.

And my God bless America.

Returning "Home" for an Author Event at the new Brew Unto Others

260 Pages ~ $14.99

Returning "home." Well it's not where we're originally from, but if anyplace feels like home it's Lamar, Colorado. We lived there from 1992 to 2000, we got involved in a church there, and we continue to see friends from Lamar often (not to mention going there often).

But since my last three books came out over the past 15 months, I haven't made an opportunity to take my books to Lamar and do an Author Event. That's about to change.

On Saturday, November 30, 2013, from 8:00 to 1:00, I'm going to be at the new Brew Unto Others coffee house in Lamar, Colorado.

Since it's the beginning of Advent Season (Advent begins December 1), we will be featuring my Christmas book, Prophecies Fulfilled in the Birth of Jesus (2012, PNP, $14.99). This book makes a great family devotional or group study to bless your Christmas season.

But I will also have my other books on hand:

• Deliver Me: Hope, Help, & Healing through True Stories of Unplanned Pregnancy (Connections, 2011). This book actually started in Lamar, and features several stories from Lamar. In fact, the first of more than 50 true stories in the book is from Lamar. $14.99 This book was named "Book of the Year" (Family / Relationships) by Christian Small Publisher's Association in 2012.
• Dear America: A Letter of Comfort and Hope to a Grieving Nation (2002, Ampelos). My first book, I wrote this shortly after we moved from Lamar, in the days after the events of September 11, 2001. It includes "10 Things I've Learned While Sifting through Grief" and the story of the Bible in five acts. $6.95
• Grandparenting Through Obstacles: Overcoming Family Challenges to Reach Your Grandchildren for Christ. Released in August 2012 by Pix-N-Pens Publishing and co-authored with Renee Gray-Wilburn, this practical book features twenty true stories to inspire and give hope to Christian grandparents. $15.99 This book was named "Book of the Year" (Family / Relationships) by Christian Small Publisher's Association in 2013.
• Prophecies Fulfilled in the Death & Resurrection of Jesus (April 2013, PNP) is the second in my "Prophecies Fulfilled" series and makes a great devotional to follows the Christmas book during the Lent Season preceding Easter. $14.99

Please stop by Lamar's new coffee house, enjoy a cup, and visit with me.

Brew Unto Others Coffee Shop

119 S. Main Street

Lamar, Colorado 81052

 

 

Writing for "Thinking About Suicide" Blog

There's a new blog trying to reach people who are thinking about suicide.

www.ThinkingAboutSuicide.com is rising to the to of Google searches for information on suicide. Often, when someone is contemplating taking their life, they turn to Google to find ways to carry it out.

That's where Thinking About Suicide comes in, offering information, help, and hope to the hopeless.

I think a lot of people are afraid to visit or share the information about this blog, possibly because they are afraid people will think they are thinking about suicide themselves. But the fact is, someone you know, or someone in your social networking circles, might be thinking about suicide. How many times have we lost someone to suicide and everybody says they had no idea this person was struggling! So here's how you can help:

• Simply visit www.ThinkingAboutSuicide.com
• Use the Share buttons at the bottom of any of the posts and send the link to your Twitter or Facebook.

Two simple steps. You never know who you can reach -- perhaps just in the nick of time.

Here are some of my articles:

• World Suicide Prevention Day
• Olympian Kayla Harrison
• Excerpts from my book Dear America's:  "10 Things I've Learned About Grief"
• Junior Seau

You can find more of the articles I'm writing by typing my name in the search box at the top of the blog at www.ThinkingAboutSuicide.com .

Remember September 11, 2001

Just like that morning in 2001, September 11th occurs on a Tuesday on this 11th anniversary. As painful as it might be, it is only right that we remember September 11, 2001, and those who died, or whose lives were forever changed, on that day.

It was in the days and few weeks following the Terrorist Attacks on the United States that I wrote my first book. I, I'm sure like so many, wanted to do something. But we felt so helpless. What could we possibly do?

I can't answer that for others. But for a writer, what else could I do but write? And so I wrote Dear America: A Letter of Comfort & Hope to a Grieving Nation (Ampelos Press, 2002).

This little book is still available in print. It was published 6 months to the day after September 11, 2001 -- on March 11, 2002. This year, for its tenth anniversary, Dear America was republished on Kindle.

Still relevant today, Dear America includes:

• my story of living through grief and discovering God
• 10 Things I've Learned About Grief
• a brief telling of the over-arching story of the Bible
• Q & A about Christians and Muslims
• helps to begin reading and understanding the Bible



For anyone who wonders where God is in the hard times, find answers in this letter to a nation:

Dear America.

Today Only! Get Dear America FREE

The FREE offer of Dear America ends today, so if you haven't already downloaded your copy, get it today here: Dear America.
Remember, if you don't have a Kindle, you don't need one! You can turn your computer, phone, or tablet into a Kindle Reader. It's safe. It's free, too. You can get that app here: Free Kindle App.

Don't miss your FREE copy of my first book, Dear America. Get it before today ends!

Get Dear America book FREE! Limited time...

Have you read my first book, Dear America: A Letter of Comfort and Hope to a Grieving Nation? Now you can have it. . . for FREE!

For a limited time, you can download the Kindle version of my first book, Dear America, for FREE.

Don't have a Kindle? Turn your computer, phone, or Pad into a Kindle Reader . . . also for FREE ! Get your free Kindle app here.

Kindle at Amazon.com is featuring my book, Dear America, for a 5-day special offer. Starting May 31, 2012, through June 4, 2012, you can download Dear America to your Kindle or other device.

Get it free now!

If you're willing, would you please write a review? Reviews need not be positive--your honest thoughts about the book are preferred. You may mention you got it Free during the special give-away for Kindle.

A little about the book:

Written just after September 11, 2001, you'll get:

• Dianne's personal story.
• Ten Things I've Learned About Getting through Grief
• Understand the Bible in Five Sentences!
• Intriguing Questions and Answers, including: How can we know whose religion is true? Who are the Muslims? Where did the religion of Islam come from? Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God? Was the Attack on America part of the "End Times"?
• Ten practical tips to reading and understanding the Bible.

Sit down with me over a cup of coffee. Hear my personal story of grief and loss. Learn what I've discovered about God and the Gospel, Islam and the Muslims, and about going on after tragedy.

Not convinced? Check out the book through Amazon's Look Inside!

Please use the Share buttons below and spread the word to your contacts. Thank you!

Get Dear America for Kindle now though June 4th.

Finding God Daily: In Prison after a Deadly DUI

My latest article on Finding God Daily posted March 21, 2012. Read it here: Find God in Prison after a Deadly DUI This is the story of a man who caused a DUI crash, killed someone, and went to prison for it. But through that experience, he found God.

What if you're on the other side of that story? Have you lost someone in a deadly DUI-caused crash? I have. Did you know I wrote about that in my first book, Dear America?

While you can still get Dear America in print, for its anniversary edition it is now available on Kindle.

Don't have a Kindle? You can make your laptop a Kindle for free.

Amazon Prime customers can get Dear America from Amazon's Lending Library and read it for free.

What's in Dear America?

In Dear America, one chapter presents the Gospel in five Acts, which I wrote about in my last Finding God Daily post about the Structure of Great Stories. (Or see yesterday's post directly below.)

Dear America has another chapter that gives readers "Ten Things I've Learned While Sifting through Grief." You can read that part through Amazon's "Look Inside the Book" program.

And one more thing. I'm going to be writing about those "Then Things I've Learned" about grief on a new blog called "Thinking About Suicide." This blog launched yesterday. It's brought to you by the same folks that do Finding God Daily. Please stop by and leave a comment.

Dear America now on Kindle!

Tomorrow is March 11, 2012. Ten years ago tomorrow my first book was published!

I wrote Dear America: A Letter of Comfort and Hope to a Grieving Nation in the days following September 11, 2001 and the Attacks on America. I wrote it in ten days. It was published and available six months to the day after September 11th.

With our nation grieving the loss of so many individuals, I wanted to share from my own experiences what I've learned about getting through grief and loss.

As our nation encountered an attack from radical Muslims, I wanted to share what I'd learned about Islam and the Muslim faith and how it compares to Christianity.

With so many people searching for hope and wondering about God, I wanted to tell them why I believe God exists. I wanted to share God's story - His story (history) - in a short, concise, easy-to-understand way.

And with so many people wanting to know about God and looking to the Bible, some for the very first time, I wanted to share some basic tips for beginning to read the Bible.

Dear America is only 52 pages long, but it packs a lot of information for the searching and curious, and overflows with compassion for the grieving and hopeless.

Thank God we haven't experiences another attack like we did ten years and six months ago. But Dear America still offers a lot of information and help for the grieving, the searching, the curious, and the hopeless. Who do you know who is grieving? Who do you know that is searching? They'll appreciate this book!

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Dear America, it's now available on Kindle! Find it here: Dear America on Kindle.

A quick read. A lot of information. A bundle of hope. Overflowing with compassion. Kindle edition only $3.45.

Still available in print from the Author or Amazon for $6.95 plus shipping (and tax where applicable).

Get it now: Dear America on Kindle.

Get a print copy here: Dear America in print.

Order a print copy from Dianne here: Dear America in print from Dianne.



Dear America has a new Book Review!

My first book, Dear America, has just received its first-ever review on Amazon! I can't tell you how excited I am?

Why?

Well, eh-hem, because the book came out ten years ago. Have you read it yet? I wrote it in the days following 9/11.

 I'm delighted that this book is enjoying new life since the tenth anniversary of September 11th. I'm hearing great comments about it, which of course thrills an author's heart.

The information about grief and the Christian faith and Muslims is timeless.

Dear America - Now in Amazon's "Look Inside the Book" program!

You know Deliver Me was not my first book, right? I wrote Dear America: A Letter of Comfort & Hope to a Grieving Nation ten years ago, after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Now Dear America is part of Amazon's "Look Inside the Book" program! You can read portions from the book by clicking on the "Look Inside" icon.

Here is some of what you'll find in Dear America:

• Ten useful tips to help you or a friend through the loss of a loved one.
• A fascinating presentation of the Bible as a five-act story. Understand and explain the story of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation in five easy steps.
• An intriguing Q & A section. Discover answers to some of your questions about Muslims, their faith, and how it is different from Christianity, including: Who are the Muslims? Where did the religion of Islam come from? Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God?  How can we know Christianity is true?
• Ten practical tips to help beginners in how to start reading and understanding the Bible.

The topics are timeless. So is the help and encouragement.

If you haven't yet read Dear America, I hope you'll take a few moments to take a look inside the book.

Book Table at Walk for Life fundraiser

Whoo-hoo! It was kind of spur of the moment--only made arrangements last Thursday to have a book table at the local Walk for Life today. Wasn't sure I wanted to work yet another Saturday. But as it turns out, I'm so glad I went!

Some of my friends prayed I'd sell out of books. Those prayers were answered -- sort of! I did sell more books than I had, but I still came home with some.

I took 24 books. I sold 9. But then the very last person to visit my table wanted a whole case! She wants everyone in her Personhood organization to have one. The book comes in cases of 38 -- more than I had! So she wrote me a check and I'll order the case and have it shipped directly to her from the publisher. Cool, huh?!

I also sold a copy of Dear America!

I have a standing offer to pregnancy centers and organizations: they can have the book for half off the cover price (to sell for fundraisers, a premium to give for donations, a gift for staff members, to show donors what their dollars are accomplishing, etc.) So I will be donating half the cover price ($7.50) of those nine books to the pregnancy center that held the Walk for Life. (Not for the case because the organization that ordered the case is getting them for half off, plus shipping.)

Dianne's first book, Dear America, featured on ACEWriters for 10th Anniversary of September 11, 2001

This week ACE Writers Spotlight has its spotlight on my first book, Dear America: A Letter of Comfort & Hope to a Grieving Nation. I wrote this book in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on America on September 11, 2001, and it is being reintroduced for the 10th anniversary of that historic day coming in a few months.

In this small book I shared my story along with:

• ten tips for getting through the grief following the loss of a loved one,
• answers to questions including "Who are the Muslims?" and "Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God?",
• a fascinating retelling of the story of the Bible like a five-act play,
• and ten practical tips to help beginners in how to start reading and understanding the Bible.

You can learn more about the book in the article on ACE Writers Spotlight. Click the link above or go to http://acewriters.com/books/, click on "Blog." See post for May 28, 2011.

This book is available on Amazon.com here: Dear America
Signed copy available from me directly: contact me at dbwrites @ juno.com
Coming soon to SignedByTheAuthor.com.

Have a wonderful, relaxing, safe, and meaningful Memorial Day weekend. May God continue to bless America. My heartfelt gratitude to those veterans who have protected America so I may live free in the land I love and serve the God I love.