Recommended Reading
Unplanned by Abby Johnson
When Roles Reverse: A Guide to Parenting Your Parents
Quick: can you answer the following: Do your parents have a will? Who will care for them if they become ill or incapacitated? How will you and your siblings share in that responsibility?
Jim Comer, author of When Roles Reverse: A Guide to Parenting Your Parents (Hampton Roads Publishing, 2006, $17.95), says that knowing the answers to questions like this can save families time, heartache and, perhaps most importantly, money they don't have to waste.
Betsy Bonaparte by Helen Jean Burn
Self-publishing: a phrase with a boatload of baggage, evoking stereotypes of vain, amateur, would-be authors, desperate to see their work in print at the cost of shoddy production value. Not to mention nearly losing their shirts as they purchase a garage-full of books they’ll never be able to sell. Stories carried recently in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and other national publications, have related such tales of woe as if they were the only side to the self-publishing story.
When Karen Steede-Terry moved to a new city to be with her new husband, she faced what so many women face: having to quit her own job and find another in her field in an area where she may have few or no friends, colleagues, or contacts.
Terry's response was to see this upheaval not as a problem, but as a challenge. And, after eleven years of successful self-employment as a freelance instructor, author and speaker, Terry has shared her "formula for success" with women facing similar challenges in her how-to book, Full-Time Woman, Part-Time Career CMS Press, 2006, $19.95).
Christian novel redefines 'Chick Lit'
Readers nationwide are identifying with a new type of heroine, discovering that Bridget Jones has a church-going rival.