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are bugging me to write a
follow up about “getting
better”. It might be a
humorous book, since trying to
deal with things and having
bipolar are bound to become
comical at some point. If not
to you to someone else. Not
saying that being bipolar is a
fun disorder, it just makes for
situations that might never
normally present themselves.
If you’ve ever seen the
“DREAM TEAM” with
Michael Keaton , then you will
understand what I mean.
understand how pathetic their
own country is politically and
other. They were the first ones
to publish my book without
question. Most in this club
know what Iran is about and
accepted everything I told
them that happened to me
without question. They knew
my ex-husband, and knew very
well of his reputation. They
did nothing but support me
and encourage me to write the
book.
Nonfiction and personal
stories are often the books that
are hardest to sell, but your
book has made several of
Amazon’s Bestseller’s Lists.
Did this come as a shock to
you or did you expect it?
It was a SHOCK! I still wish
others would buy and not pay
attention to the Genre of what
it’s OFFICIALLY classified as.
This book reaches so many
genres: I.E. Inspirational,
Motivational, True Crime,
True Drama, psychology, I
Prior to the events that inspired mean it has so many meanings
your book had you ever even
for so many different people.
thought about writing a book? It’s not only a book about Iran,
it entails my entire life. Which
No. I loved reading books,
has been nothing but a multiwhich makes it kind of difficult tasking event with horrific
now since I’ve had brain
events but fortunately a
trauma and now a brain tumor wonderful ending.
so for me it’s extremely
Do you have plans for future
difficult for me to concentrate books?
on one thing for too long. It’s I’ve been in PTSD therapy
like being ADD x 100
now since 2006, and all the
gals that are in there with me
Do you think you’ll ever try
your hand at fiction? No, nonfiction is bad enough
What did you most want to
accomplish with your book?
Insight, educating people
about another culture,
showing that there can be bad
and good that exist within a
country and its people and we
shouldn’t just judge that
country on the bad (like we do
so often). I LOVED THE
extreme strength Iranian
women show and the
conditions they deal with every
day and still not only survive
but thrive to be the best, most
have dreams of getting out of
their circumstances and some
take great risk to accomplish
this. I admire them so much. I
wrote an article about them on
Helium that I’d like to give the
link to:
http://www.helium.com/items/1
692320-stories-about-womenin-middle-east-or-iran