BOOKS BY MY FRIENDS
BONNIE BUCHMAN, SUSEN EDWARDS, JOY E. HELD, KIM MC MAHILL & BARBARA JEAN MILLER
Thursday, 26 December 2024
Welcome to Books By My Friends! Today we are featuring:
BONNIE BUCHMAN
SUSEN EDWARDS
JOY E. HELD
KIM MC MAHILL
BARBARA JEAN MILLER
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BOOK: Witness to Healing in Cancer: Hope with Natural Options
AUTHOR: Dr. Bonnie Buchman, ND, RN, PhD
GENRE: Self-help
BLURB: Cancer is a word that you never expect or want to hear from your physician's mouth. But cancer is not a death sentence. It is a symptom of a bigger issue. The body desires to walk in health and wholeness.
Dr. Bonnie's wisdom, knowledge and understanding offers a depth and insight into the beauty of how the body is equipped to heal at a cellular level.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr. Bonnie holds degrees in the natural sciences as well as naturopathy and nursing.
She is very much in tune with both mainline medicine and natural modalities.
She has, over the years, worked in many fields of healthcare, different venues of nursing and held a private practice in natural health for nearly thirty years. She enjoys assisting people to better health, mind, body and spirit. Currently writing a series of five books that will hopefully educate while making readers laugh and gasp. So many do not know what goes on behind the scenes.
She is a member of the Holistic Heath Sciences Association, the American Holistic Nurses Association, the American Naturopathic Medical Association, and the American Association of Drugless Practitioners, as well as being a registered Holistic Health Counselor and a Registered Nurse.
Dr. Bonnie is a retired nurse/naturopath currently writing a series of books under the title Witness to Healing.
BOOK: Lookin’ for Love, A Novel
AUTHOR: Susen Edwards
GENRE: Women’s Fiction, Historical Fiction, Christian Mystery & Suspense, Domestic Partner Abuse
BLURB: Inspired by a gripping true story, Lookin’ for Love begins in 1963, when Ava, nineteen and pregnant, marries a violent alcoholic and is disowned by her abusive mother. She bears two sons, leaves her husband, and turns to go-go dancing to provide for her children, using alcohol and drugs to numb herself to the degrading work. Then she meets Mike, a charismatic drug dealer who promises to give her “a beautiful life.” They move to Florida and begin working for The Crew, one of the largest drug smuggling organizations in the country. The Crew sends Ava and Mike to Kenya to find farmers to grow marijuana—but while they’re there, their home is raided, they’re charged with international drug smuggling, and Ava is sentenced to serve time in a Kenyan prison.
After her release, Ava struggles with sobriety but soon returns to dancing, alcohol, and drugs. Eventually, she hits bottom and surrenders her will to God. Once sober, she learns the power of forgiveness, faith, and love.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Susen Edwards, MA is the founder and former director of Somerset School of Massage Therapy, New Jersey’s first state-approved and nationally accredited postsecondary school for massage therapy. During her tenure she was nominated for Inc. Magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award. She is currently secretary for the board of trustees for her town library and a full-time writer. Her articles have appeared on Women Writers, Women’s Books; Residence11.com; Writers Digest, DIYMFA.com; and more. Susen lives in Central New Jersey with her husband, Bob, and her two fuzzy feline babies, Harold and Maude. She is the author of two novels, What a Trip and Lookin’ for Love.
BOOK: Writer Wellness Workbook
AUTHOR: Joy E. Held
GENRE: Self-help; Creativity
BLURB: A GUIDED WORKBOOK AND JOURNAL TO ACCOMPANY WRITER WELLNESS: A WRITER’S PATH TO HEALTH AND CREATIVITY
Wellness is an overall approach to maintaining good physical, mental, and emotional health. Writer Wellness provides anyone with a developmental guide to achieving and perpetuating good health and creativity. There are five key concepts to a Writer Wellness lifestyle:
JOURNAL WRITING, FITNESS, RELAXATION, NUTRITION, CREATIVE PLAY
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joy E. Held is an author, educator, book coach, yoga teacher, and founder and creator of My Writeday Subscription Box for writers. She is a member of The Authors Guild and The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. She lives in West Virginia with her husband.
BOOK: Refuge from the World (The Beartooth Chronicles, Book 1)
AUTHOR: Kim McMahill
GENRE: Young Adult/Dystopian
BLURB: Ashley McPhee arrived in Beartooth with her mom, Sara, when she was three years old. Ever since Ash can remember life has been simple, but things are changing in their isolated mountaintop community.
After learning of the government’s plan to use a geoengineering process to cool the planet, Ash and Caleb realize they need to take a more active role in the community. Along with fear for how the process will impact their food supply, Ash learns her mom’s health is failing.
Sara doesn’t want Ash to face an uncertain future alone. Even though Ash is just eighteen, Sara nudges her and Caleb into marriage, drastically changing their relationship in a very short period of time and thrusting them into a world they never imagined.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Kim McMahill started out writing nonfiction, but her passion for adventure, stories of survival against the odds, and speculating about the future of humanity and our planet, soon turned her attention towards fiction. Growing up in a beautiful mountain west community, traveling the world, and enjoying a rewarding with the National Park Service, has given her the opportunity to live in amazing places, experience incredible adventures, and witness many changes in our world, all of which have helped shape her stories.
BOOK: Viscount for Hire
AUTHOR: Barbara Jean Miller
GENRE: Regency
BLURB: The wealthy Kate Hamilton must marry the wounded viscount she is sheltering in her London townhouse since saving his life has ruined her.
But Dancy seems reluctant, so Kate proposes hiring him as her husband.
Dancy has never met anyone like the impulsive Kate, who buys their way out of danger.
Just as they marry, his sister elopes and he falls for the spontaneous Kate as they ride across England together to prevent another scandal.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Barbara Jean Miller insists on writing Regency Romantic Suspense Action Adventure books just to get in all her favorite things.
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JOY E. HELD is an author, educator, editor, entrepreneur, and literary citizen responsible for this site and its contents. She is the author of
Writer Wellness: A Writer’s Path to Health and Creativity (Headline Books, Inc., 2020)
Writer Wellness Workbook: A Guided Workbook and Journal to Accompany Writer Wellness: A Writer’s Path to Health and Creativity (Headline Books, Inc., 2023)
The Mermaid Riot (Fire and Ice YA, 2024) Young Adult Historical Fantasy
She writes spicy historical fiction under a pen name.
She is the winner of multiple writing and book awards:
West Virginia Writers, Inc. Annual Writing Contest, Honorable Mention, Novel, 1998.
New York Book Festival, Honorable Mention, Writer Wellness, 2020.
Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Finalist, Writer Wellness, 2021.
Northeast Ohio Romance Writers of America, Member of the Year, 2020.
Northeast Ohio Romance Writers of America, First Book Award, 2020.
She is an adjunct faculty member in the Southern New Hampshire University Online MFA Creative Writing.
She is a proud graduate of Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA with an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction.
She is a member of The Authors Guild and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.
Joy is the founder and CEO of My WRITEDAY Subscription Box for writers and readers.
Thank you, Joy, for featuring "Lookin' for Love" and so many other great reads!