Rebecca's Book Publishing Fund
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I've been writing for publication my whole adulthood, but the kinds of things I write are not the kinds of things mainstream publishers are necessarily interested in. The times, they are a-changing, however! It is now possible with a very reasonable start-up fund to self-publish on Amazon.com using CreateSpace and make books available to the public they otherwise could not enjoy. I have three such book projects ready to go to press as soon as I can afford the basic set up fees. The $1600 I need to raise will cover formatting and cover design, galleys, copyright fees, promotion, and shipping costs for all three books.
The first book will be entitled: Your Life Isn't Over ~ It May Have Just Begun! and is a 75-page mini-manual for managing diabetes. It's basically the book of tips, hints, and inspiration I wish I could have had when I was diagnosed myself seven years ago. Many diabetics don't even try to manage their disease because it seems so overwhelming. Worse, they think managing their diabetes will take all the fun out of life. This book is intended to help them prove that neither has to be true.
The second book will be entitled: Why Am I Not Surprised? and is a compilation of some of my best essays on race and race relations in the United States. My blog on race at Why Am I Not Surprised? has had more than 420,000 hits over the past decade and has been read in nearly two hundred countries. This compilation will contain more than sixty essays unapologetically tackling a range of thorny topics, including how to better recognize the many manifestations of White Supremacy and how Whites can really be an ally to Black Americans and other People of Color.
The third book will be entitled: Reduced to Equality: My Odyssey to Renounce Racial Privilege ~ and Find Myself and is an auto-ethnography that uses my life to examine race relations in the U.S. from the sociological perspective. In it, I will outline how I discovered after decades of fighting racial injustice and birthing a bi-racial daughter myself that my mother's ancestors were slaveholders of note in the early 1800's.
Anyone donating $25 or more will receive a signed copy of whichever of my books they choose after it becomes available. Anyone donating $50 or more will receive a signed copy of any two of my books after they become available. And anyone donating $75 or more will receive a signed copy of all three books after they become available. My goal is to have all three books on Amazon.com and in selected venues by November 1st or before.
The first book will be entitled: Your Life Isn't Over ~ It May Have Just Begun! and is a 75-page mini-manual for managing diabetes. It's basically the book of tips, hints, and inspiration I wish I could have had when I was diagnosed myself seven years ago. Many diabetics don't even try to manage their disease because it seems so overwhelming. Worse, they think managing their diabetes will take all the fun out of life. This book is intended to help them prove that neither has to be true.
The second book will be entitled: Why Am I Not Surprised? and is a compilation of some of my best essays on race and race relations in the United States. My blog on race at Why Am I Not Surprised? has had more than 420,000 hits over the past decade and has been read in nearly two hundred countries. This compilation will contain more than sixty essays unapologetically tackling a range of thorny topics, including how to better recognize the many manifestations of White Supremacy and how Whites can really be an ally to Black Americans and other People of Color.
The third book will be entitled: Reduced to Equality: My Odyssey to Renounce Racial Privilege ~ and Find Myself and is an auto-ethnography that uses my life to examine race relations in the U.S. from the sociological perspective. In it, I will outline how I discovered after decades of fighting racial injustice and birthing a bi-racial daughter myself that my mother's ancestors were slaveholders of note in the early 1800's.
Anyone donating $25 or more will receive a signed copy of whichever of my books they choose after it becomes available. Anyone donating $50 or more will receive a signed copy of any two of my books after they become available. And anyone donating $75 or more will receive a signed copy of all three books after they become available. My goal is to have all three books on Amazon.com and in selected venues by November 1st or before.
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Rebecca Hensley
Organizer
Hammond, LA
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