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Author Poll: Writer Darlene Hancock wants your help with her cover

Darlene Hancock is self-publishing a book with Outskirts Press. And Darlene wants your help deciding her book cover.

Book Summary

Bugdom

Where in the world did Mamy come from? Are those crows really going to eat the Bugdom inhabitants? Oh, and what about Razz, is he going to be the winner of the competition? The answers to all these questions are inside so, GOOOOOOOOOOOOO for it! These are tales about an insect community called the Bugdom. No two are alike, and they all share in a “lesson learned” philosophy that is revealed by their own Bumblebug Bob at the end of each tale.

About the Author

Darlene is a nurse by profession, and has always been very creative. She loves painting, making jewelry, scrapbooking life’s adventures, photography ,gardening, reading, and the list goes on and on. The inspiration for her stories comes from her family that she holds very dear, and nature, both beautiful, and unpredictable.

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Author Poll: Writers Dr. Hamisu Salihu and Priyanshi Patel want your help with their cover

Dr. Hamisu Salihu and Priyanshi Patel are self-publishing a book with Outskirts Press. And they want your help deciding their book cover.

Book Summary

Scoring High on the New MCAT

The purpose of this book is to help examinees that will be sitting for the new MCAT test format as from Spring 2015 to prepare for the sections on Social and Behavioral Sciences which encompass psychological, social, and biological foundations of behavior. The questions in the new sections are based on knowledge of important introductory psychology and sociology concepts that relate to mental processes and behavior. The new changes expect acquisition of information and skills in areas that were previously not tested on MCAT. There is also the realization that the 21st Century medical student and doctor need to be knowledgeable not only about facts related to disease, but equally important, about the psycho-social environment that interacts with the individual patient to produce or mitigate disease. The book is titled “MCAT Pioneers” because we are happy and proud to be pioneers in utilizing a biopsycho-social (BPS) lens to assist MCAT applicants in understanding and integrating the concept of health and disease as a product of the inter-play among biological (e.g., genetic/epigenetic, molecular, cellular and hormonal), psychological (e.g., our thoughts, perceptions, attitudes, reactions and behaviors) and social (e.g., institutional, cultural, political and socio-economic) environments. This yields a comprehensive and unified multi-factorial approach to health and disease thus preparing the future medical student to draw on this understanding in his/her interactions with and management of patients within a context rather than in isolation. Above all, the book will aid examinees who aim to achieve high scores in the new MCAT format.

About the Authors

Dr. Hamisu Salihu is a Professor at Baylor College of Medicine. He is a world renowned expert in the field of medicine and medical research. He has over 300 scholarly publications. Priyanshi Patel is a pre-med student at the University of South Florida who worked with Dr. Salihu to produce the book.

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Author Poll: Writer Phoenix Lee Tuttle wants your help with her cover

Phoenix Lee Tuttle is self-publishing a book with Outskirts Press. And she wants your help deciding her book cover.

Book Summary

Many people have misinformation or incorrect assumptions about PTSD. You may think that PTSD is something that only soldiers suffer from, or people who live in very violent circumstances, such as in war zones or gang-ruled neighborhoods. But the truth is that anyone who undergoes trauma can have PTSD. Trauma comes in many forms, but the bottom line is that anyone who has been in circumstances that made them fear deeply for their safety or sanity can suffer from PTSD. Noise in My Attic is Phoenix Lee Tuttle’s courageous and compelling story of PTSD and its destructive effects on people’s lives, including judgment and stigma from society, and the danger of being taken advantage of in a fragile psychological and emotional state. Struggling with both PTSD and bipolar disorder, she embarked on a ten-year journey of faith as she battled her way back from depression, suicidal thoughts, and loneliness while her marriage and job dissolved around her. Join Phoenix in her remarkable search for peace and healing–and prepare to have your eyes opened to the reality of trauma sufferers all around you.

About the Author

Phoenix Lee Tuttle grew up in the small southern Oregon town of Klamath Falls. An avid horseback rider, she showed her horses all up and down the West Coast. She earned her MBA in Finance from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. She was in a pre-med program for a few years, and attended a nursing program in Las Vegas before suffering additional trauma, which led to her move to Hawaii. She currently lives on the island of Oahu.

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Author Poll: John Sparks wants your help with his cover

John Sparks is self-publishing a book with Outskirts Press. And he wants your help deciding his book cover.

Book Summary

To: Authorized Personnel Only
Location: National Aeronautics Research Consortium (N.A.R.C.) Labs
From: Doctor Robert J. Guttenberg, N.A.R.C. Director
Attention, all personnel: Your help is desperately needed in relaying this message to anyone who will listen. One week ago, N.A.R.C. Labs received an unearthly signal, emanating from the far side of the moon. The renowned Harvard graduate Dr. Sing Ann Howell can barely hold our computer together. Effective immediately, by Presidential Order, a 24-hour work rotation is in effect. Project Blue Star, America’s nuclear rocket, is being pulled from its ashes. Pilot training will be provided by Captain Tom Dangerfield in an effort to beat the Soviet response. Time is of the essence. We cannot allow ourselves to lose the race for this unearthly mystery…
Addendum: Over eleven hours ago, Tom Dangerfield and I encountered a woman of distinction who claims to be Anna Urisa, Captain of the Guild scout ship from the planet Arseina, broadcasting the distress signal that we are now receiving. The validity of her story is unknown…our traditional beliefs and ideas may be the defining elements, limiting our ability to see the truth. I encourage everyone to see past our earthly limitations, as they may be our undoing…

About the Author

John Sparks embarked on a lifelong quest to find the origins of French radio signals in northern New York, only to discover that he lived just minutes from Quebec. Undeterred, John launched a new quest, 1950s technology to receive iPod videos. As a philosopher and freelance writer, John has traveled the United States teaching the value of passion writing, which he identifies as writing expressed as the voice of life flowing with ideas, visions, and dreams drawn into words representing the flow of the internal, touching the mind of the reader. John is an Unexploded Ordnance Technician certified by the Department of Defense.

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Author Poll: J. Dean wants your help with his cover

J. Dean is self-publishing a book with Outskirts Press. And he wants your help deciding his book cover.

Book Summary

When writing about fifty years of any human life, one can only be humbled by the period of history through which so many of us survive. Life takes so many turns that the cultural changes, unfelt from day-to-day, feel like seismic shifts when surmised and stockpiled. Any man’s life is one that changes so much every year. You can go from looking in the mirror at someone you wish to grow old when you’re a teenager to wishing you were younger in a heartbeat.

Some of the memories that you’ll read may strike you as unbelievable – they do to me recalling them. But no matter how thrilling, traumatic or incredible the events of my life have been, I have not embellished, exaggerated or elaborated in any of the telling of these events. With my co-writer, I have constructed a faithful to me which stands up to the memory of time elapsed, even if sometimes my life has felt too fantastic to be real. In short, every word of what you’re about to read is the truth, whether I wish it was or not.

About the Author

Abandoned by his father when he was just nine months old, Jeffrey Blalock was placed in an orphanage by the age of three, in the summer of 1965. Abused and imprisoned under the guise/cloak of religious education, young Jeff faced a daily fight for survival against the very people who were supposed to be protecting him.

This is the true story of a boy who was left to fend for himself and conditioned against love, compassion and trust in a place where no-one survived intact. This is the story of a person able to declare against his tormentors, that his will would not wither, his body not broken and his spirit never suffocated – Not Today.

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Author Poll: D. Glenn Harris wants your help with his cover

D. Glen Harris is self-publishing a book with Outskirts Press. And he wants your help deciding his book cover.

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The family is still the launch pad for propelling young people into society as productive and contributing members of the society. Marriage the way God designed- the framework for the family- is under attack. The kids will one day leave and the two of you will be “empty-nesters”. It will be good for her to be able to reflect on how well she was loved all through the child-rearing years and look forward to being courted by you all over again. Couples can fall in love all over again; or at the other end of the spectrum, realize that it was really the children that kept them together and in the loneliness of the empty, lifeless, loveless house, decide to leave the marriage. It starts with you.

About the Author

D. Glen Harris has been a dedicated Christian for 23 years and married to his bride Shannon for 27 years. He is a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ who lives the sacrificial crucified life and a retired United States Army Officer. He is the founder of the R.E.A.L. Men Nation.

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Vote now for the winner of the free laptop!

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In celebration of Valentine’s Day, Outskirts Press has been “sharing the love” and inviting its family of successfully published authors to do the same. This has come in the form of a $300 publishing promotion as well as a video promotion for the chance to win a free laptop. The video submissions have been collected, the best of them have been posted on our Facebook Page, and the “likes” have been tabulated.

Now it’s time for you to vote for the winner of the free laptop!

From among all the submissions we received, the top videos are presented below. Simply vote for your favorite in the polling box below the last video. The polls will be open until end-of-business on Thursday, February 28th. The winner will be announced on Friday, March 1st.

Good luck to the three finalists. And thank you to all our wonderful authors who took the time to submit their videos:

Now, without further ado…

VIDEO #1: Larry Wright, author of Longhorn Tales

VIDEO #2: Davy Jennings, author of Kansas Gospels

VIDEO #3: Tommy Baker, author of Santa Claus, The Fourth Wise Man

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