Archive for the ‘Journal’ Category

ADVOCATE MAGAZINE

Hello!

I hope your week has started off on a good foot. If not, remember you can restart your day at any given moment.

I wanted to share with you a great article that is in the latest issue of The Advocate Magazine on sale now!

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Very exciting! I also just added a few dates to my schedule, including a book signing in Harrisburg. Check it out!

Review in Curve Magazine

Hello everyone!

I hope this post finds you well on this holiday Monday-at least for most of us this is a holiday!

I wanted to share a recent review with you all that just hit news stands in the March edition of Curve Magazine! www.curvemag.com to learn more about this female positive magazine!

Here is the actual review! Enjoy!

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Stay tuned as next week the Advocate Magazine will run a full page Q&A on the book!

Culture Shocks!

Last night I had the opportunity to appear on Culture Shocks with Barry Lynn. It was a great one hour show about the book. You can listen to the show here.

http://63.139.221.170/qtmedia/mp3/1096.mp3

Enjoy!

Thank you Penn State University!

Thank you to all those who came out to Pattee Library on a very cold, wet and icy night. I was so impressed with how many of you came in the horrible weather! It was a wonderful night and a great start to my book tour. Here is the article that ran in the Daily Collegian today!

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Tonight, don’t miss my one hour live interview with Barry Lynn on “Culture Shocks”.

The Bilerico Project & PSU!

Hello!

Exciting news! The book is officially out! Your little package should have arrived or will anyday now! I do hope you enjoy your glipse into my world.

I was a guest blogger over at The Bilerico Project. Go check it out!
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/01/i_am_a_poster_child_with_no_poster.php

If you are near State College tomorrow night please come check out my first lecture and book reading. There will be plenty of books to purchase and I will be signing them all!

Feb 1st, 2008 7:00PM

Pattee Library in Foster Auditorium

I will also be in the WPSU studios doing a TV and Radio spot! I will let you know when they both air!

There is no such thing as an accidental overdose…

Ike Turner, Brad Refeno and now Heath Ledger…sad…tragic….unthinkable…

To call any one of these deaths an accidental overdose flies directly in the face of the reality of addiction. As a recovering addict for more than ten years, I can tell you there is nothing accidental about an addict’s choice to overmedicate. It is in fact the inherent nature of the disease. To call it accidental just goes to further prove how little society understands about addiction. No addict takes a drink, pill or drug without absolute and solid intent. The intent is most likely not suicide or a desire to die, rather, to escape and run away. Read On

Books should arrive on your doorstep in the upcoming weeks!

I apologize for my lapse in posting a new blog here! I have been engulfed in holiday activities and travels. I am happy to report that my book has hit the warehouse and will begin arriving in your local book stores all over the country in the upcoming weeks. If you ordered on Amazon they will ship soon as well.

If you don’t see my book in your local book store—REQUEST IT!!!! Order a copy and tell your friends to do the same. The more requests the book store gets the more copies they will order! I am hoping to begin some book related travel soon. I will be at The Pennsylvania State University on February 1st, 2008 at 7:00 PM in the Pattee Library in Foster Auditorium. If you find yourself in State College that Friday night please stop by. I will be speaking and reading from the book. I will also be signing books!!!!

If you are at a university or college and want to bring me in as a speaker please contact Sharon Castlen at ibmarket@optonline.net and she will get it all set-up!!

I hope to see you on my travels….and I do hope once you receive your hot little copy of my book that you find it lives up to all your expectations!!

Love and respect…..storm

Virtual Shout-Out!

I realize I am about a week or so behind on this whole giving thanks thing but I need to give a huge thank you to some incredible people and companies who have really helped me and been so supportive through this whole book ordeal. The book goes to print this Friday and it has been one hellava process. This is my virtual shout out to the peeps who have stuck by me so far and supported the hell out of me!
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Great Article in the Patriot News!

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Ten Years!

Today I have ten years clean and sober.

Ten years of shifting, screaming, cleaning, laughing, crying, changing, dealing, unveiling, processing, living…ten years of it all the good and the bad.

Ten years without the reliance on a mind or mood altering substance to deal with life on life’s terms.

Ten years of brutal honesty and rebuilding of self.

Ten years of gaining back trust of those I injured during the previous ten years.
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