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“Someone #2” The Guessing Game Expands

Okay, how am I supposed to keep quiet when I feel like squealing?!  Another really, really cool endorsement for Grace: A Child’s Intimate Journey Through Cancer and Recovery came in today!  This someone, who shall henceforth be referred to as “Someone #2,” sent me a quote that touches my heart.  And I know that this “Someone #2” is just as busy in life as “Someone #1” or “Cheese.”

I am thinking hard about a clue for “Someone #2,” while we are awaiting the finalization of papers… hmmm… 

How about “Morning Person.”  Yes, the first clue for endorser “Someone #2” is Morning Person.

I will be thinking of clue #2 for “Someone #1.”

Happy guessing– or telepathy, or whatever other assett you plan on using!

I had better think of a prize.  Prizes make things more fun!

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Kairol Rosenthal

My favorite thing about the whole book endorsement process is meeting new people.  It has been fascinating, and an amazing study in human nature.  I love seeing how people respond.

One person who responded with tremendous warmth and kindness is Kairol Rosenthal, author of Everything Changes: The Insider’s Guide to Cancer in Your 20s and 30s.  Besides being a fellow cancer survivor, she shares my love of dance as well.  It means so much to me that she took her very valuable time to read my work, and she responded with a heartfelt and well-thought out endorsement for Grace: A Child’s Intimate Journey Through Cancer and Recovery.  

Kairol told me that she gets inundated with endorsement requests from authors who write about their cancer experience.  I can imagine her email inbox exploding.  And then I very gratefully acknowledge what she has done for me.   Kairol, thanks so much for showing your care for cancer kids in such a beautiful way.

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Jeff Foxworthy, Dr. Wharam, and Cure Childhood Cancer

What an interesting project this book endorsement requesting is!  Being a teenager, and a first-time author, I had no idea that after you write a book, you need to “raise it.”  I am very fortunate to have someone who  has helped me tread through the murky waters of book publication, and I will never forget him telling me, “Now that you have published Grace, you need to raise her!”  What the heck does that mean?  Well, I am finding out.  I was just so deliriously happy at this time to be holding my words in book form, I didn’t really care if anyone ever read it!   It is such a funny process… it’s like when you put some corn kernels in a pot, turn it on, and then things start to crackle and pop. 

Crackle and Pop… I am ready for the popping sounds to reach ear-popping decibals.

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Ellen DeGeneres Needs Clones Too!

Okay, it is not just me who needs some clones to help them.  Yes, even though Ellen has her talk show, her American Idol judging, and I can imagine countless other responsibilities, she took the time– through her very kind manager– to respond to my book endorsement request.  I am touched that I even received a response at all.  I mean, Ellen could have rolled her eyes about twenty times and told me to take a long walk off a short pier, but no, she responded with graciousness.  No, the response was not quite, “Yes Melinda, I will stay up all night for a couple of weeks, just to make sure that your book endorsement gets done!”  But the response was so sweet, I must tell you that I feel as if she did say, “Yes!”  Hmmm…. too bad the “feeling” won’t look so good in print on Grace‘s book cover.

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