A Beach Book for You and All of Your Friends

I am late to the game with the novels of Jane Green, but now I am gobbling them up like mad. Green is a novelist with homes in London and Connecticut, and she’s a masterful writer. Many of her novels are about modern (that’s us) women who are making life changes (yes, again, us.)

But the book I invite you to grab now—and you’ll have no trouble finding it-- is Jane Green’s newest novel, “Summer Secrets” published June 2015. I picked it up in the airport on my

way to the Atlanta AA International Convention and really, I was rushing and the cover was pretty and I knew that I liked Green’s books, and then, “Thank you God!”

This is one of the best novels about a woman in recovery. And in a perfectly balanced way—the novel is compelling, great moving plot, page-turning story and woven in the story is alcohol and where it can take us and how we face not wanting to need recovery and side-stepping recovery and then, and then…and you know---

But here’s a bonus. This is a great beach book—every woman you know –who loves to read—will love this book. So you can buy this for friends in and out of recovery. Those who are in recovery will say, “Cool book” and those not in recovery are going to say, “Great read.” Isn’t it nice when that happens?

I sent Green a thank you note—because whether she meant to or not this book will show readers who don’t know, or who may not care, about 12-step recovery what our laughter (and prayer) are all about.

Out of the Woods--The book is in stores and on Youtube

I am so pleased to let you know that what began on this blog is now a book. "Out of the Woods" has been published by Central Recovery Press.

You can purchase the book at your local bookstores or an Amazon. I placed a link below to make that easy. And also a link to me on YouTube talking about why--oh why--I wrote this book.

I began talking about how we come out of he woods when I was maybe ten years into my recovery and then I started writing about the issues of changing recovery, transferring addictions, relationships in recovery and finally longterm recovery over the next 20 years.

I made myself laugh when someone recently asked me how I wrote a book while also having a big job and a busy recovery life and rich friend life and wonderful married life too (and a little cancer thrown in for interest) and I said, meaning this is how I write, "I did it one day at a time."

Yeah, I said that. To coin a phrase:) But it's true. I wrote the book the way I do recovery: baby steps, trials and tests, building new habits and one day at a time.

I invite you to buy the book. But keep joining me here. The discussion  just keeps going and there is so much more for us to talk about as we come out of the woods.

Check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHbwyvPV0Q0&feature=youtu.be

http://www.amazon.com/Out-Woods-Womans-Long-Term-Recovery/dp/1937612473