WME Books Blog

Dr. Claudia Thomas touches lives in her home town and is now sharing her story

For a picture of how WME author Dr. Claudia Thomas is touching the lives of those in her community in Florida and her patients at the Tri-County Orthopaedic Medical Center in Leesburg there, check out the article "Local physician writing own history" in today's The Villages Daily Sun.  She will be doing a book signing at the Villages in on Aug. 6 from 11am to 1pm at All Booked Up.

God Spare Life author interviewed in Baltimore Times

Dr. Claudia Lynn Thomas, author of God Spare Life was recently interviewed by Ken Morgan of the Baltimore Times about the book and her life. That interview was published online yesterday at the Baltimore Times along with a book review of God Spare Life. Morgan captures the theme of Dr. Thomas's book, writing that it:

[S]hows and embraces how the rooted gems of her upbringing in a two parent black working class family that included an expectation of excellence, discipline, protection, spirituality and faith helped to bring her through life's cycle of storms.

Welcome to the WME Books Blog!

We at Windsor Media Books decided it was high time to start using our skills in blogging to provide a platform for showcasing the authors of WME and their books.  Much of the material in this blog would have appeared previously in our blog A-Ha! Authors Helping Authors, but we felt that the focus of that blog—providing advice and tools to authors who are seeking to publish a manuscript—was suffering from also serving as a tool for letting potential readers know about WME Book authors and new titles. 

In these pages we'll be highlighting WME's authors, their work, and their achievements.  In addition, we'll also use this blog to share what's being said and written about their books out there in the blogosphere, the wider Internet, and the "traditional" media. This will be a work in progress as we experiment with how we can use this tool in new and exciting ways.  Stay tuned . . .

Transplant survivor reviews God Spare Life

Jim Gleason, who received a heart transplant in October 1994, has reviewed God Spare Life, by WME Books author Dr. Claudia Lynn Thomas.  The book review is available on TransAction Council area of the National Kidney Foundation's website.  While Gleason was looking for a "transplant story," and writes his review from the perspective of a transplant survivor, he writes that he found much more in God Spare Life:

Woven into this “transplant story” is a love story worthy of a different kind of novel, but this one is her real life. Her conversational telling brings out our smiles as we follow her discovery, after 35 years of total dedication to her training and career, true love and a princess like life together in and around the idyllic island of St. Thomas, followed by tears as we watch it all fall apart with failing health changing all.

Square One at 51: What I Did the Day After I Buried My Life by Hedria Lunken

Hedria Lunken will tell you, “It doesn’t get better. It only gets different.” That was her mantra as she struggled through the long journey of recovery, after her soul mate of 30+ years left her—for the grave. 

An instructor in the “inspirational teaching” profession, Hedria discovered her talent to help others navigate change through the writing she did in her “letters to Paul,” a journal she kept for three years after his sudden death. In her despair and insecurity, lost in a world of senselessness, Hedria’s only release was in writing to her lost love, page after page of loneliness, anger, and finally, rejuvenation. Through it all, she learned how to cope with life’s intrusions—how to bear the loneliness, even when with friends; how to get up and accomplish small tasks, then bigger ones; even how to love again.

This is a book that will make you laugh. It will make you cry. It will inspire you to get up out of your chair or your bed, and tackle life’s challenges, one step at a time. Each chapter begins with Hedria’s insights and ends with a set of tools to help you traverse that bumpy road of change. Meant for women more so than men—because women are the one’s who most often find themselves needing to change, be it through death or divorce—this book challenges the reader to become someone, someone beyond the ‘someone’ you may have been in a past life, in a life the existed before the intrusion of death or divorce. Filled with humor, compassion, and practical advice, Square One at 51: What I did the day after I buried my life will have you looking forward to tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. In a way you never did before.

In the Introduction, the author writes

I invite you to follow my steps from total shock to a new beginning . . . . read how I pushed myself to grow professionally and personally by creating and then accepting new challenges. If you’ve lost your soul mate, or faced making major changes in your life, you’ll recognize and understand the experiences I describe. Use this book to help you through your challenges and to find your way over the hurdles.

Hedria was able to help plan and then attend her daughter’s wedding, without Paul at her side. Her Masters of Science diploma in Creativity arrived in the mail only two weeks into her mourning, leaving her wondering what to do next, finally inspiring her to go out on her own—to become more than she thought she could become, and to achieve not only peace, but happiness. Today Hedria is remarried, she is a past president of the Creative Education Foundation, and she speaks and writes on navigating change.

Square One at 51: What I Did the Day After I Buried My Life can be purchased at the WME Books’ online bookstore at www.wmebooks.com, and will be offered on Amazon.com soon.