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Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: Adult children and their parents, specifically adult women and their mothers, people interested in tearooms and in drinking tea.

Q: What is the book about?
A: This is a collection of essays revealing the issues of the mother-daughter connection in adulthood. Over cups of tea in a variety of tearooms in Iowa this mother and daughter share their feelings about aging, role changes, work, and self-esteem. We live in a fast-paced world where little time is made for the relationships we value. Together this mother and daughter make time for tea and conversation and in the process reveal the story of their unique beginnings. Ultimately they learn about themselves and each other one tearoom at a time.

Q: Why are you the best people to write this book?
A: My mother and I have a compelling story to tell. I was a foster child who moved into the my foster parent’s home during my turbulent adolescence. Since our beginnings, and over the past 30 years, we have learned how to unite, love, and define the true meaning of family and what is required to make blended families work.

The themes discussed in Under the Tea Leaves resonate for older women who long to have time and relationship with their adult children in our busy culture where distance is a fact of life. The book also reaches younger women who are struggling to understand their adult parents, particularly their mothers.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: Our readers have expressed their enjoyment of the book as a way to sample the tearoom experience and gain understanding through the universal themes expressed in the essays. People have also mentioned feeling inspired to make more of an effort to find quality time for those relationships that matter most to them and even go on a tearoom journey of their own.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: Our web site is www.underthetealeaves.com. We are available for book discussion groups via conference call or if available in person. We encourage book group discussions of the themes of our book and have presentations available regarding specific topics of Under the Tea Leaves.

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Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: Women who deal with anxiety, fear, or depression.

Q: What is the book about?
A: Life Without the Monsters is about my life with anxiety disorder and how I learned to manage my debilitating thoughts. When I was 11-years-old, my parents went through a rather difficult divorce. It was then that I developed my life of worry and began having panic attacks. Of course in 1975 there were no such things as “panic attacks,” but each night at sunset I would become filled with terror. I would feel as if I was out of my own body—out of control. Then I would hyperventilate and feel as if I was having a heart attack. This happened every night for several years.

The attacks subsided for a time, but the worry was still there. I worried about everything—especially if it had anything to do with what other people would think of me. My mind needed constant approval, so I strived for perfection in everything every area of my life—school, work, marriage, motherhood, housework—everything. And as long as I would hear comments like, “ Wow! You did a great job on that!” I was ok. It never occurred to me that this was not necessarily normal!

The panic attacks returned in 1993. At the time I was married with two children and one on the way. I was in graduate school, had two part-time jobs and was student teaching full-time. Two of the high school teachers working with me made negative comments during an evaluation. This had never happened before! The comments still haunted me when I interviewed for my first teaching job. I was sure I wouldn’t be good enough, and the panic worsened. This time I couldn’t “snap out of it,” and I was hospitalized. My official diagnoses were major anxiety, post-traumatic stress syndrome, and depression.

After the discharge I continued counseling for a time, and tried lots of different medications – Zoloft, Prozac, Xanax, and Klonopin. I thought all was well – whenever a twinge of fear would surface, Klonopin would take it away. It would put in a drowsy state of disengagement from life. The counseling didn’t seem to be helping, but life was still tolerable.

Finally in 1999 I turned to God for help and was able for the first time to understand something: I don’t have to live this life of fear. There was something bigger than me, something bigger than my problems. I found ways to rely on this, and a great burden was lifted. I want other women to know that they don’t have to live in fear either. This is the ultimate purpose of the book.

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: I am the best person to write this book for three reasons. First, I’ve lived through it. I certainly recommend getting counseling and reading material from doctors and preachers, etc. But for someone going through anxiety there’s nothing like getting advice from someone who’s lived it.

Second, I have two degrees—one in biology and one in education. This allowed me to research extensively when I wrote and to comprehend what I was reading. I was able to understand very well what happens in my body chemically when I worry. My degree in education gives me enough psychology and communication to be able to teach this science stuff to other people.

And finally, I’m a Christian woman who understands what it’s like to worry—and I’m not afraid to talk about it! I found during my research that many Christians consider worry a sin—end of story. There’s very little tolerance for worry because, in some minds, if you do then you really can’t believe in God like you say you do. And since women suffer from anxiety twice as often as men—even in the church—they need to hear that there’s more to it than sin.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: When I decided to write the book I first did a lot of research. My husband actually said, “You can’t write the book from a Christian perspective. People won’t read it!” I thought about that and began thinking of other ways to write it. But there was no other way. So I bought every book I could find on anxiety—books from diverse perspectives.

My book is different because I found advice in the Bible that I haven’t seen presented before. There aren’t just the typical verses that tell you not to worry. I found that there are specific techniques on how to feel more peace. For example I learned that you can use all of your senses, even your sense of smell, to relax and calm your mind.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: There is “homework”. I spent most of my life wanting the answer—one thing that would give me the life I envied in so many other women. There’s not one. It requires commitment, effort, and time. I still struggle with worry. The difference is I now have tools to help me, and I grow with each new challenge. I want every woman out there to also live their lives without monsters.

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Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: Women between the ages of 18-60 who are dating, especially those who are dating online.

Q: What is the book about?
A: If you are single, how do you spot a serious mate versus a player, a married person posing as a single or a cyber stalker online? Sex, Lies and the Internet is an online dating survival guide that shows women how to avoid being scammed, used and abused by men.

In order to find Mr. Right, you need to be able to recognize and avoid Mr. Wrong. This book will show women how to make better, safer and more informed decisions regarding the men in their lives.

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: I am the Internet’s leading expert on online dating and relationships. I am also a woman who used the internet to look for Mr. Right. In the process, I was scammed not just once, but multiple times by men who lie, cheat, abuse women and get away with it by hiding behind the false identities and phony online dating profiles.

Eventually I learned the secrets of how to identify Mr. Wrong on my way to finding Mr. Right, and more importantly how to avoid the abusers, scammers, cheaters and dangerous men who prey on single women in online dating websites. Most importantly, I learned why I found myself attracted over and over again to Mr. Wrong and how to recognize the RED FLAGS to avoid the cycle of abuse.

To help other women avoid these dangers, I started a website called http://www.WomanSavers.com, the “World’s Largest Database Rating Men,” where women can warn other women about the men to avoid. This eventually became one of the top women’s websites on the Internet where tens of thousands of women come to share their stories, to heal, and to warn other women before its too late.

WomanSavers.com is in the top 5% most popular women’s websites in the world, receiving millions of hits per month.

I have also polled over 300,000 women on dating and relationship issues, in addition to counseling thousands of women online.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: There are many books out there about dating but very few books on date screening. Sex, Lies and the Internet is filled full of real-life relationship experiences, including some of my own. It also has many custom, color cartoons which help keep the tone of the book light-hearted even though it addresses some serious and abusive issues.

Sex, Lies and the Internet does not only show women how to avoid abusive relationships, but also shows them how to get out of them.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: The internet can be the most dangerous place to unintentionally expose yourself to dangerous men who target, stalk, and abuse unsuspecting women, especially women who are hopeful, and emotionally vulnerable. This book is a must read for any women out there who are online dating and are concerned about their safety.

Single mothers should be especially concerned about screening their dates because pedophiles target them for access to their children. This book with teach you the sneaky tricks players and dangerous men use and don’t want you to know and how to see through their scams.

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1. What is the title of the book?
LoveDance: Awakening The Divine Daughter, By Deborah Maragopoulos, FNP

2. Who is the intended audience?
LoveDance’s main audience is women between 30 and 70 years old, although many men have been moved to share how touched they were by this alternate history. LoveDance works on many levels for spiritual seekers, history buffs, both genders on their path to enlightenment, and anyone open to receive healing—body, mind and soul.

Pre-market research showed men and women from 16 to 89 years of age had transformational experiences in reading just two chapters. Fundamental Christians may not appreciate the book which draws more from the Aramaic Peshitta and the Hebrew Tanach than from the New Testament.

At the surface, LoveDance unveils a great romance, before the intimate nuances of the lost Sacred Feminine are revealed. Those who dare to open themselves to the gift of LoveDance find hundreds of insights, layers of spiritual truths, and a deep connection with the Divine.

3. What is the book about?
LoveDance is the inspirational tale of Mary Magdalen. As the sensual embodiment of the Divine Daughter, she struggles within a restrictive patriarchal society to be her truth. Her beloved husband, Yeshua, believes he is the Hebrew Messiah which is challenging at best.

Who knows a great man better than his wife. Mary has much to share with the readers. While Yeshua wishes to teach peace and love, the tribes want a warrior king like David to free them from the Roman oppression. His chosen council of twelve cannot accept an unveiled woman as the mother of the Holy Bloodline.

Just as we today try to answer the existential questions of who we are, why we are here, where we are going, what is our purpose, and when is the time ripe, Mary’s journey unveils her Divine Truth through very human relationships. Mary’s story is a parable for us all.

4. Why are you the best person to write this book?
As a board certified family nurse practitioner, I set out to write a health and wellness book. My specialty is neuro-immune-endocrinology—the study of the molecules of emotion.

My colleagues and patients encouraged me to share my pearls of healing wisdom. So I began in the summer of 2003, but no muse came until I had a dream that I was fourteen-year-old Mary Magdalen dancing down the streets of Nazareth.

As an intuitive integrative healer, I have always followed my inner guidance in my own life and when counseling patients. Having premonitions all of my life, dreaming the conception of both of my children, knowing what ails patients before they even arrive in my clinic, how could I deny this passionate muse who came in visions and dreams, some even in Aramaic!

For eight months, I wrote prolifically; over 420,000 words as if rehearsing for a major theatrical production. I wrote in first person present tense because that’s how it felt to me. Like Mary, I am a passionate woman, married to my soul mate, have consciously raised two enlightened children and am sought out by patients from around the world for my healing gifts.

5. How is this book different from other books on this topic?
There’s history, then there’s HERstory. Other novels about this controversial woman mimic history as recorded by men, presenting Mary Magdalen as a red-headed prostitute possessed by demons tagging behind Jesus like a groupie.

Some explore an alternate history, yet with the distance of past tense, third person, the story is reported not experienced. Using first person present tense narration, LoveDance portrays dark, and beautiful Mary Magdalen as the beloved wife of Yeshua, his essential partner and soul mate.

True love is a journey with the potential to realize our own divinity in the eyes of our beloved. So often we are told how to be happy, how to heal, how to become enlightened.

LoveDance allows the reader to experience Mary and Yeshua’s relationship. Through their trials and tribulations, through their soul searching and ultimate awakening, the reader grows, further on her own soul path. A gifted healer, a wise mother, a powerful leader, yet very human in her passions and vulnerability, Mary is the lost Sacred Feminine that women and men yearn for today. LoveDance is HERstory.

6. Is there anything else we should know about this book?
While self help books are all the rage, to truly imbibe the vibration of healing, one must tell a story; a story so rich in description that the reader experiences everything the characters experience. Throughout time immortal the great masters have taught through story telling; connecting the psyche to the archetypal myths that reflect our human experiences.

LoveDance intimately engages the reader with in depth characterization, emotion, passion, adventure, leading to self reflection and ultimately healing. Already readers are testifying to marked changes in their bio-psycho-social-spiritual health. I realize that my clear intention fueled by pure desire becomes manifest. And I meant to write a healing book.

LoveDance teaches all the pearls of wisdom I wished to impart in story form the way a beloved avatar taught 2000 years ago.