Create A Character Clinic Goes Gold

Both Create A Character Clinic and Hunting the Corrigan’s Blood are now available in print versions at the OneMoreWord Bookstore on Lulu.com.

The second version of CCC landed on my doorstep Saturday afternoon, and it came out just right. I was overjoyed that it turned out so well…and incredibly relieved that it turned out at all. Getting this book into print has been a real challenge.

On a personal note, I haven’t felt like myself since late last year (something you may have noticed from the tenor of this weblog). While I wrote most of this off to a whole lot of years of overwork and (since about December) the depression that sometimes affects me, I discovered not too long ago that the horrible headaches and the constant exhaustion are primarily being caused by high blood pressure. I’ve reverted to a vegan diet, and the blood pressure has already started to come down. I still don’t feel like myself. But I am starting to feel better.

Oh. And the e-book store is down for maintenance. If you’re hoping to buy any of the cool books we have up on the site, please keep checking.

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By Holly

Novelist, writing teacher, on a mission to reprint my out-of-print books and indie-publish my new ones.

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klharrds
klharrds
17 years ago

I got my copy of the CCC last night and I’m very pleased with it indeed, (thanks for this Holly); it looks great, plus I was really surprised it was delivered so quickly as well, it looks like once they got the conversion issues sorted Lulu are quite a slick outfit, oh and by the way I can’t wait until the other clinics are available; hopefully, you’ve now cracked all the Lulu bugs and the others will be easy to sort out; I’m working pretty solid for most of this week but I think I’ll take a bash at a character exercise this Thursday night and see how they pan out – wish me luck I’m going in!

PS – Did you like my bash at a behemoth sentence.

klharrds
klharrds
17 years ago

Don’t worry about the overseas p&p, I think with the dollar in its unhappy state against the pound that it only works out a little more than the standard £4.95 p&p you have to pay on most mail order stuff and off most of the shopping channels too. I know, my mum loves those damn jewellery shows. You can pretty much guarantee that if she’s left with the remote for 10 minutes you’ll come back to either QVC or some makeover extravaganza. It’s sad but we love her.

unxplaindfires
unxplaindfires
17 years ago

p.s. I’ve been itching for the lastest installment of the podcast. Hope I can hear from you soon.

Thanks,
Jeff

unxplaindfires
unxplaindfires
17 years ago

Hey Holly,

Hope things turn out health wise. I was straight-edge for a while, thats my generations term for super vegan. Couldn’t eat anything that cast a shadow! Just kidding. It was a “The Self is a Temple” sort of thing. No meat, artifical persevatives, no diary, no smoking, drinking, piercings or tattoos, any form of manufactured anything – including medicine. Just organically grown vegs. Turned out I am allergic to soy and really need the cultures that grow in diary to keep healthy (digestive thing). It was a little to cultish for me anyway, and lasted about 6 months. My point is, I did it because it was “in” (I was a teenager) and my friends were doing it. It caused a lot of health problems for me. Some people NEED to eat meat and diary in order to be healthy, I can’t process artifical irons (that includes RX) and have a low iron blood level – meaning no red meat, no clotting blood, and I could bleed to death from a paper cut.
I’ve run into people who say that is wrong to kill in order to live, but they never begruge a tree that is spreading its branches over smaller plants preventing them for getting sunlight, so that it may grow.

Bridget
Bridget
17 years ago

Thanks so much for trudging through the process to get CCC available in print form. My order’s in and I can’t wait to get it.

Stephanie
Stephanie
17 years ago

Holly,
Sorry to hear about the high blood pressure. I can only imagine what having a headache for a month is like…I thought three day long migraines were bad! Ordered the print copy of CCC–I already have it in e-book format but I think it will be easier to have a hard copy to look through. (less to clutter up the computer screen!) Am looking forward to the create a language work book.

Haven’t ever tried vegetarian or vegan diets, though if good ole eating right and exercising doesn’t start to work I may have to…but I suspect it would be hard to give up steak, chicken, fish…mmm. We’ll see though.

klharrds
klharrds
17 years ago

Yikes veganism! I wish you luck with the diet, sounds terrible to my carnivorous nature. There is truth in the fact that the body craves certain foods which are beneficial so perhaps it wouldn’t be a struggle even for me.

I ordered the CCC for the bargain price of $30, which should be about £17 I think once the conversion charge is put on the credit card. I can’t wait for it to arrive, I’m sure it will be worth it.

jessiegirl21
17 years ago

Congrats on going vegan. Vegan diets help cure many health related problems. Check out the book “The China Study” if you want to know more. It is an incredible book.

Liz
Liz
17 years ago

It’s much easier these days, with the advent of TVP. If you can’t deal with soy, there’s soy-less Quorn vegetable protein, made from fungi (some types have egg whites, though).

I hope you feel better soon, Holly. 🙂

arainsb123
17 years ago

As an ex-vegan and current vegetarian of several years, I know how tough it can sometimes be to remain vegan — although not nearly as hard as people make it out to be. The temptation to go back to eating meat, especially, is rare. I ended up going back to vegetarianism because of a soy allergy that made eating vegan too much of a pain.

PJ
PJ
17 years ago

You hear so much that high blood pressure doesn’t have symptoms, but that isn’t actually true. I, too, discovered my HBP via my symptoms. Glad you’re feeling better! ^_^

As for orders – I have CCC, so I’m waiting for the Language Clinic. Is that going to be only eBook – or will we be able to order it from Lulu, too?

~PJ~

Jason Penney
17 years ago

No problem. I hope you’re feeling yourself soon.

Jason Penney
17 years ago

Horray! My order is in for both!

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