It’s finally here! My new eBook is available. And here’s the thing: if you don’t own a tablet or an eReader, you can still read it as a computer document with a free Nook reader. I’ll supply the links below.
Doing media interviews is proving more difficult than for The Naked Truth, that’s for sure. Despite telling the same bits of the story over and over, I still tear up every time. I never get used to explaining how I spent many long hours unable to move under my own steam, while doctors weren’t sure if I was going to live. I hope I express the depth of those hours without being self-pitying. And I hope I also adequately explain the relief of discovering I wasn’t terminal. And I hope I do it all in an entertaining way. So far everyone I know who has read it has been able to make eye contact with me afterward and tell me they liked it, so that’s a good sign! If it was terrible, they’d avoid me or simply compliment the cover. That artwork was done by my brother-in-law and go-to cover artist, David Botten.
The book is now on sale for the tidy sum of $2.99 on Kobo (Chapters) and Kindle (Amazon) and you can download that free Nook reader HERE.
If you’d like to hear my News Director Scott Kitching interview me about the book for The Big Picture on Free-FM, you can access that HERE.
And thanks for just letting me put the word sepsis into your head. That’s all I’m trying to do. When more people are aware of it, fewer people will die from it. Thank you.
Lisa, My daughter-in-love sent me the link to purchase your eBook, My Sepsis Story…I immediately purchased and read the entire book tonight. I went through a similar journey in October of 2011. I believe I may have contracted the Strep A bacteria after having a prior surgery. After entering the ER, I spent 13 days in the hospital with a good portion of that time in a coma in the intensive care unit fighting to live. It took several months before my husband and family could share with me how close I came to death. I truly believe it is only through the grace of God that I survived the horrible Infection and subsequent surgeries. So thankful to be ALIVE! Thanks for sharing your journey and quest to inform more people about this elusive and deadly infection.
Amazing. I’m hearing from so many people who had brushes with death like yours or watched a loved one succumb because no one knew what was wrong at the time. We have to talk about it! Thanks so much for writing and I’m so glad your story also had a happy ending.
Given that you couldn’t find someone to believe how sick you were, you are lucky to have survived. I will be purchasing your book just as support because you took the time to tell your story and may save lives by having done so. I’ve been keeping up with your story since before you left Toronto and I’m glad you are still around to continue telling it.
Thanks so much Linda. A lot of people have survived but not many of them want to talk about it or have a forum to do so. I’m also hoping it will be therapeutic for me because, as one friend put it, I still have a form of PTSD. I can’t talk about it without crying!! (Makes for interesting radio interviews!!)
If you are still suffering the emotional affects of being so ill you must have been terrified and rightly so. I say cry away. You earned it. And radio interviews are great because no one will see your mascara running. There’s always an upside even while in despair!
Thanks Linda! I have developed the ability to let the tears flow and still talk normally! haha It’s Darwinian. I’ve adapted to my surroundings. 🙂