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September 2007 |
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Nobody can make you feel inferior
without your consent.
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Something to think about.... Happiness is: Looking
in a mirror and liking what you see. Harriet Brown has created a pledge to counter all the trash-talk women (and girls) are so prone to dishing out to themselves.
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A Word From Pat First, let me apologize that the QP is a few days late. I have to admit that September 1st slipped up on me and was almost gone before I realized what day it was. But I'm so happy that August is out of here! It has gone down as the hottest month in Nashville's history. Not my kind of weather at all! Come on, Fall! I mentioned in the last QP that my husband, Joe, had to have a CT scan. Good news! He has an 8 mm stone in his right kidney and a 2 mm stone in his left kidney. I'm serious about the good news, because we were worried that it might be something worse. He said he'd never have thought he'd be thankful for kidney stones. I have to make a very important correction from my last QP. I mentioned that my grandson, Shaun, was 6 years old. He had just turned 7, and "Mimi" forgot. Sorry, Shaun. My publisher, Peggy Elam, and I were interviewed for a community paper a few weeks ago. You can read the article at http://www.pearlsongpress.com/2007/08/pearlsong-press.html. I thought the reporter did an excellent job. I finished 10 Steps to Loving Your Body―No Matter What Size You Are! It's with the publisher (Pearlsong Press), so it is one step close to being a "real" book―my first nonfiction. I'm very excited about for the fact that I think it has potential to help a lot of women take a closer look at their attitudes about their bodies. I'm also excited about it because I've proven that I can write a nonfiction book! So despite the heat and drought and worry about Joe, I did accomplish a few things during August. Everyone have a safe and
happy September.
Visit Pat's Place at
www.patballard.com | Write me at
patballard@bellsouth.net |
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Tony's first wife died
mysteriously. Will Lana be next? |
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Links About The Queen & Her Books
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Weighty Matters Christian Bachmann interviewed Health At Every Size advocate Linda Bacon, Ph.D. for his Med Journal Watch blog. Among the gems (emphases mine):
Bachmann, by the way, is a science and medical writer and editor who pinpoints Aug. 2, 2007 as the day he stopped believing in weight loss. In another post on Med Journal Watch, he writes that until that day
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Reader Review of the
Month As much as I enjoy her writing, I hope Ms. Ballard will develop and go on to write more believable books. In Abigail's Revenge, we read about an undernourished young girl who never stuck up for herself being neglected or even mistreated by her father, and then sent to prison for a murder she didn't commit. Somehow, in prison, she eats "healthily" and develops self-esteem and poise far above average, in spite of her very difficult family background. (This doesn't seem to be consistent with the usual impression you have of what happens to people in prison.) A boy who fell in love with the skinny, unassuming waif is faithful all the time she is in prison, but never contacts her―until she comes back an entirely different woman, and then he declares his love. The bad guys who had no compunction about murdering her father for some unspecified reason pass up several opportunities to knock off Abigail, and when they finally get their hands on her, find it sufficient to lock her in a room―from which she easily escapes to foil them.
I hope Pat Ballard will go on developing as
a writer. In the meantime, her curvy female characters provide great role
models with their ability to be self-affirming and to withstand and
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Communicate with Pat
via her "Amazon Connect" blog on Amazon.com!
Pat's romantic suspense novel Abigail's Revenge is featured on the Beautiful
Portal website:
http://www.beautifulportal.com/news.php?item.900034.8
An article on Pat has been
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Calendar of Events
New from Pearlsong Press—Pat's
latest Romantic Suspense, The Best Man. Pat regularly guests on the Health At Every Size show with Dr. Peggy Elam on WRFN Radio Free Nashville. Check the show blog at http://www.healthateverysize.info for mentions of Pat's next guest appearance. The show is streamed live over the Internet 10-11 a.m. CST Mondays and now can also be listened to live over your phone via UPSNAP.COM.
Listen to or download the mp3 recording
of Pat's July 23, 2007 guest spot on the show at
http://www.pearlsong.com/audio/HAES07232007.mp3.
(Right click on the link & "save as" to download.)
You can also listen to
the live broadcasts through your telephone via UPSNAP.COM. It's free for
wireless internet enabled phones, but there's a small monthly charge for
other phones. See the
Health At Every Size show website or the
Radio Free Nashville website
for details. Pat will spend the next few months promoting The Best Man. She's in the process of setting up booksignings with local Borders bookstores, and others. You can still hear the taped radio shows from Size Matters with Veronica, WCRS Radio, on Pat's website.
Show #1
discusses Pat's romance novels |
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read as well as support in loving themselves. |
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