READER'S ROCK LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE VOL 2 ISSUE 4 NOVEMBER 2014 Vol. 1 Issue 4 October 2013 | Page 10

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