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 A GOOD STORY IS A GOOD STORY

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MEN DO GET BREAST CANCER- RICHARD W. WIENER DID- READ HIS STORY

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I HAVE WHAT??? ONE MAN’S JOURNEY THROUGH BREAST CANCER

Chicagoan Represents the One in a Thousand of Men Who are Diagnosed with Breast Cancer

(Glenview, IL – October 5, 2012) After losing his wife to breast cancer in February of 2007, Chicagoan Richard Wiener developed the same disease five years later. In Fideli Publishing’s newly released I Have What?? One Man’s Journey Through Breast Cancer, Wiener shares his personal story from beginning to end, holding nothing back. This true-tell-all book inspires us to embrace the human condition, with all that it offers, and to live our life to the fullest.

When Wiener’s wife Lynn lost her battle with breast cancer, the last thing he expected was to be the next family member diagnosed with the disease. After discovering a hard lump in his chest one morning, he knew his world was about to be forever changed.

I Have WHAT??? One Man’s Journey Through Breast Cancer (Fideli Publishing, Inc., 2012) chronicles the raw emotional and physical experiences from a male point of view, taking the reader on a personal ride from Wiener’s discovery of the lump, to processing the diagnosis, managing the treatments, and eventually learning how to move forward. Through Wiener’s unfiltered candor, he ultimately reminds us of the fragility of life and the power of the human spirit. The book can be purchase for $10 plus $3 S&H at richwiener.com or the Kindle edition can be purchased on Amazon.com.

Buy during October and support Breast Cancer Awareness – In recognition of October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month worldwide, 20% of the proceeds from each book purchased from richwiener.com will be donated to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.   

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Come and meet Richard at one of his book signings in greater Chicagoland. (Please go to richwiener.com for the most current schedule):

·            October 11^th, 6-9PM at the Dragonfly Restaurant, 832 W. Randolph, Chicago

        info@dragonflymandarin.com, (312) 455-1400

·            October 20^th, 2-4PM at The BookMarket in the Glen Town Center, 2651 Navy Blvd, Glenview barbarasbookstore.com, (847) 904-7304

·            October 25^th, 5:30-7 30PM at the Palm Court in the Drake Hotel, 140 E. Walton Place, Chicago thedrakehotel.com, (312) 932-4619

·            (Date/time TBA) at Pinstripes, 1150 Willow Rd, Northbrook, pinstripes.com,
(847) 480-2323

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ONE MAN’S JOURNEY THROUGH BREAST CANCER –pg. 2

ABOUT MALE BREAST CANCER:

Breast cancer awareness is for men too.  Key statistics about breast cancer in men in 2012:

• Breast cancer is about 100 times less common among men than among women.
• For men, the lifetime risk of getting breast cancer is about 1 in 1,000.
• About 2,190 new cases of invasive breast cancer are diagnosed among men annually.
• About 410 men die from breast cancer each year.
• It happens most often to men between the ages of 60 and 70.
• Risk factors for male breast cancer include exposure to radiation, a family history of breast cancer and having high estrogen levels, which can occur with diseases like cirrhosis or Klinefelter's syndrome.
• Symptoms of male breast cancer include lumps, changes to the nipple or breast skin, or discharge of fluid from the nipple.
• Treatment for male breast cancer is usually a mastectomy, which is surgery to remove the breast. Other treatments include radiation, chemotherapy and/or hormone therapy.
• The prognosis (outlook) for men with breast cancer was once thought to be worse than that for women, but recent studies have not found this to be true. In fact, men and women with the same stage of breast cancer have a fairly similar outlook for survival.   

For more information, visit the American Cancer Society’s online detailed guide: Breast Cancer in Men.

ABOUT RICHARD WIENER:

Richard Wiener resides in Glenview, IL. He started his career as a teacher in 1968. He taught for 11 years and then took a sales job that had him traveling all over the West Coast and Pacific Northwest. After 11 years in sales, Richard returned to education and taught at his alma mater, Von Steuben High School in Chicago where he was appointed athletic director and was the chief fundraiser for the school. He was also elected President of the Chicago Athletic Director's Association representing every public High School in Chicago. After his wife passed away, Richard retired and eventually began the process of dating.  After many dates that went wrong, he decided to write a book CHECK PLEASE…& HURRY!, a humorous and at times, jaw- dropping compilation of truthful dating stories according to his experiences and others he interviewed.  With the achievement of the popularity of the book, Richard began the process of writing a sequel when he discovered his cancer. Instead, he decided to write, I HAVE WHAT??? ONE MAN’S JOURNEY THROUGH BREAST CANCER to share his story with the hope of educating men that breast cancer is not for women only.  The book can be purchased from richwiener.com.

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Penguin E-Books to Hit Libraries Nationwide A pilot begun last month by Penguin to sell its e-books to the New York and Brooklyn public libraries is expected to roll out nationwide by year end, according to a statement from the library e-book vendor, 3M. In a statement late yesterday, 3M officially announced that Penguin would be using its Cloud Library product for the task. Penguin has not yet confirmed the development to Digital Book World. Penguin will join Random House and HarperCollins as publishers from among the largest in the country that sell their e-books to libraries. The Penguin program, like that of the other two, will likely not be without its restrictions. For the pilot, Penguin is only making its e-books available six months after they initially went on sale and then for a year license, at which point librarians will have the option to renew - for a fee, one supposes. So, no  No Easy Day at your public library until February or March. Librarians have bristled at such restrictions in the past, but we guess that they'd rather have the option to buy Penguin e-books, restrictions or no, versus the alternative - no options at all. Related: Librarians Out of Patience on Library E-Book Lending Issue, Library Association Says Barnes & Noble Doing What It Said It Wouldn't (PaidContent) Have you been to your local Barnes & Noble lately? Go and check to see if they are carrying Amazon Publishing titles. Reportedly, some are, despite the bricks-and-mortar retailer's insistence in February that it would do no such thing unless it got to sell the titles as e-books, too. No sign of them in the Nook store...yet. Why Publishers Don't Like Working With Start-ups (DBW) Whether it's that they're too busy, too small or afraid to look stupid, there are lots of reasons publishers say they don't want to work with start-ups. That said, many do and there are reasons why. Top five for both sides in this post. Apple iBooks Author used to create interactive "Frankenweenie" eBook With eBooks, digital publishers can create a unique reading experience that would be impossible with physical texts. Disney recently harnessed this potential. Read more. In Three Words (The Shatzkin Files) Mike Shatzkin sums up the future of book publishing in three words: standards, rights and data. Standards, rights and data issues can "restrain digital growth, or propel it," writes Shatzkin. The Latest Sourcebooks Innovation: The Shakesperience (DBW) The Shakesperience is the innovative publishing company's 21st century-take on tales nearly as old as publishing itself. The way we learn Shakespeare is hard, says Sourcebooks CEO Dominique Raccah. The Shakesperience aims to make it easy. Bookouture: The Latest Digital Publishing Start-up (DBW) This time it's an ex-Harlequin marketing exec behind a new digital publishing player. Perhaps more people are reading this and figuring it's a good move to build digital-only publishing houses from the ground up. The PIAs: The Very Best in Ebooks The Publishing Innovation Awards celebrate publishers, designers and authors who are improving the reading experience in the digital age. If your ebook, enhanced ebook or book app presents solid design that keeps readability front and center or introduces interactive or social elements that improve the reading experience, we want to see it. Entry Deadline November 15! Blurb's New Bells and Whistles (DBW) E-book production firm Blurb, which has tools that allow users to simultaneously create content for print, e-book and audio-book production, has now added tools that allow the simultaneous creation of enhanced e-books, too. K-12 Publishing Doomed, Unless... (DBW) A new survey of K-12 publishers says that three-quarters of them will go belly up unless they are true multi-channel publishers. Classrooms are demanding more digital content today but print is still a priority. IDPF's New E-Reader Test Suite (DBW) The IDPF will soon release a new tester for e-readers to see just out EPUB3-supportive they are. It's all part of the organization's campaign to make EPUB3 the standard format for e-books. Amazon Book Takedown (ABA Journal) While B&N is putting 'em up, Amazon is taking 'em down. Amazon removed Kate Gosselin: How She Fooled the World from e-shelves due to alleged copyright issues.

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Note: When I finished Murdock #6—Murdock Tackles Taos—I dozed, I dreamt of Fame, that elusive imposter, and then I launched into Murdock #7, and felt a bone-chilling loss of momentum, because the work on the Taos book was wrap-up writing, little fixes, edits, careful knitting up, joyful polishing—but the writing on the new book was clumsy, dull, opaque, fitful, maddening. I was back at Beginner’s Mind, facing the blank page. I blamed writers with finished books. Desperate, I rewrote paragraphs—my internal editor, alive and robust, calling out the edits—so to rescue myself from going crazy, I jotted down twenty steps for starting my novel, and I hope the same steps work for you:

1. Write 100 pages.
2. Don’t stop to think. Don’t write too fast. Don’t waste time crafting exquisite paragraphs—you’ll have to cut them when you rewrite.
3. Write short lines, short sentences. She slugged him. He fell backwards. She hit him with a skillet. Blood popped from his ear. (Hint: the short line forces you to look at your verbs.)
4. Use strong verbs. Shoot, dance, spin, whirl, claw, jab, slice, chop, lob, whack, whip, lash drop, gallop, trot, slug, etc.
5. Pack each line with objects: wardrobe items, vehicles, jewelry, weapons, tools, kitchen implements, money in envelopes, money in attaches, hundred dollar bills on the crap table, furniture, rocks, trees, scars, car parts, bathroom soap (what does it smell like?).
6. If a paragraph cries out to be written, go for it. But do not rewrite or reshape or touch up the paragraph!  Because when you touch it up, even a tiny bit, then you are editing and…
7. …the least little edit wakes up your internal editor—and the editor will chastise your unconscious—and you got trouble. In the first 100 pages, keep your editor sedated on downers.
8. Forget all the crap about rough draft and final draft. Forget about ridiculous goals like writing 50,000 bad words in 30 days. (A novel is a plot and two or more subplots—not a certain number of words.) Go for story. Go for character. Go for objects on the page.
9. Write pieces of scenes—setting, character onstage, dialogue, action, intruder—but don’t stop to polish any scene because there’s a good chance you’ll cut it when you rewrite. For the first 100 pages, scenes are place holders.
10. Push past page 50. If you get to page 50, you will enter unknown territory: no road signs, no map, no Sherpa guide, the elusive elf of fame dancing like a mirage in your headlights. If you push past page 50, you are way ahead. Most would-be novelists run out of gas right here.
11. Be brave. You won’t know what your novel is about—sex, danger, loss, pain, betrayal, genetic success, education, space travel, love, King Replacement—until you reach page 100—or after. Be brave.
12. Write about your characters. Name, sex, age, home, education, income, vehicle, wardrobe stuff, wounds, scars, childhood trauma that haunts, because you are seeking motivation, which creates agenda, which creates action—what one character does to another.
13. Write about connections between the three main characters: protagonist, antagonist, and helper. The two big connections are blood (family, genetics, sibling rivalry, parental rule, childhood rebelllion) and money (greed, need, want, robbery, betrayal, homicide). Other connections arise from place and/or situation: teacher-student (School), officer-enlisted man (Military), warden-guard-felon (Jail), boss-employee (Work/Job), hooker-client (Sexual Encounter), cop-snitch (Mean Streets), etc.
14. Write the first encounter between protagonist and antagonist then keep going writing the firsts—first love, first kiss, first funeral—for each character.
15. If you yearn for feedback, stay calm. If you must share a few pages, do not show them to your spouse, but share with your fellow writers—nuts like you who want to write novels. When feedback comes, take notes. Don’t argue. Don’t say, “But what I really meant was…” If you feel bad, cry. Then get back to writing short lines.
16. When you reach page 75 (in a projected novel of 300 pages, you’re at Plot Point One), write ten sentences about your Midpoint—what happens before and after page 150. (Hint: with these ten sentences, you are probing your novel’s structure.)
17. Do a mind-map (words in bubbles, bubbles linked by lines on the page) of your novel so far. What’s in the bubble at the center? How are your characters connected? What are your five key objects? Which character controls the Resource Base? What lurks in the bubbles way out there on the edge?
18. On page 90, define your Resource Base. What do your characters want? What will they kill for? What will they die for? Examples: The RB in Water World is dirt. The RB in Moby-Dick is blubber. The RB in Jane Eyre is Mr. Rochester’s money, symbolized by Thornfield Hall, a dowdy English country house, but to Jane, it’s a castle. In Road Warrior, the RB is gasoline. In As Good as it Gets, the RB is Melvin’s money. The RB in the Cinderella fairy tale is the Royal Castle, a sanctuary for an orphan girl who loses her slipper.
19. Grind your way to page 100. If you don’t have a writing group—where you write with other writers using a timer—get one together now. (Hint: critique groups are useless except for leaving writerly blood-trails on the floor.)
20. Page 100. You are here. Take some deep breaths. Pat yourself on the back. Do a 180 rotation and look back down the road you have built as you traveled. Check out the road signs, the detours and dead-ends and pot-holes. Read what you wrote and make lists: objects, characters, settings, subplots. Then write the next 100 pages. Short lines, no editing, nose close to the page, and when you get rolling, around page 127, try this startline to locate one possible climax: “My story climaxes in a scene called X where the protagonist battles the antagonist for….”

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