Blog Articles About Your Life with RA

Helping Hands – Raisng Money for Show Us Your Hands!

You guys rock my world! In the last two weeks of September, I held a fundraiser for Show Us Your Hands! For every copy of Your Life with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Tools for Managing Treatment, Side Effects and Pain sold, 50% of the royalties would go to this organization that I love so much. And a…

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New Shop, New Products

Some time ago, I played around with Zazzle for some custom-made products and liked it a lot. The interface is wonderfully easy, making interesting products a snap. I spent part of my vacation time in August making some new stuff. Looking for inspiration? In addition to the Still Standing poster still in the shop, I’ve…

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Judging a Book by Its Cover

This is the second post in a series about publishing my book independently.  Once I decided to publish Your Life with Rheumatoid Arthritis independently, the next task was to figure out exactly how to do it. That meant breaking down the process into separate tasks and to figure out what those were, I did a…

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Why Go Indie?

When I started writing Your Life with RA, I fully intended to publish the traditional way. Because of the vagaries of my own RA, I didn’t think I could deliver a large manuscript on a deadline, so the idea was to write a book first, then shop it around to an agent or publisher. Decent…

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It’s Heeeere…

I’d like to introduce you to the paperback edition of Your Life with Rheumatoid Arthritis. To differentiate this from the ebook edition, we call it the Book Book. In unguarded moments, I call it My Preciousss.  It’s got an incredibly beautiful cover by Dan Handler. The man does magic, transitioning an e-book cover into a…

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A Virtual Visit and an E-Book Giveaway

When Marianna and I talked about me stopping by her blog A Rheumful of Tips, she suggested doing something a bit different. We batted some ideas back and forth and settled on a video. Of me.  There’s a reason I’m a photographer, not a model. Well, aside from not having the ability to subsist on…

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Help Me Make a Paperback

You may have noticed I’ve been a bit scattershot in my approach to posting lately, but I have a good reason. Several good reasons. There’s been a rather a lot of work, a lot of book promotion and just recently we dove into making the paperback. This means reading the damn book again. Not that…

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Blog Tour: Getting Closer to Myself

The latest stop on the Your Life with Rheumatoid Arthritis Blog Tour is Getting Closer to Myself, Leslie Rott’s blog about living with the double whammy of RA and lupus. Leslie is a graduate student in sociology and asked some great questions. I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to delve deeper into the topic. You can…

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Blog Tour: MyLungsMyLife

Jenni is 16 years old, lives in the UK and has the best Twitter handle I’ve seen in a while: @pinger_genguin. Brilliant, right? She raises awareness about chronic and invisible illnesses on her blog MyLungsMyLife. Earlier this week, I wrote a guest post for her about juvenile arthritis.  Thanks so much for hosting me, Jenni! 

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Blog Tour: CreakyJoints Invited Blog

A couple of weeks ago, the lovely people at CreakyJoints asked me to write an invited blog for them. They wanted to hear more about the process of writing the book. I was very happy to oblige. The post is about three factors that are important both to writing a book and living with RA….

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Blog Tour: Living with Rheumatoid Arthritis

I was thrilled to stop at Andrew Lumpe’s Living with Rheumatoid Arthritis to have a chat about the book, writing with RA and a disability and a mutual geek out about the state of research and the digital world. Andrew also did a lovely review of Your Life with Rheumatoid Arthritis. You can read his…

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Blog Tour Kick-Off!

I’m happy to announce that my blog tour kicked off today! What’s a blog tour, you ask? It’s a book tour where you don’t have to put on makeup or even leave your home! My lovely friend Cathy at The Life and Adventures of Cateepoo agreed to host the first stop on the tour and…

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