When I was a girl, I regularly
looked at my father’s magazines. He was a reader. My favorites were: Liberty,
Saturday Evening Post, and Popular Mechanics. The last was of particular fascination for
it showed what we could expect in the future. I vividly remember seeing a
picture of cement roadways crossing over one another. It was like something out
of Buck Rogers (whom I adored). I wondered if ever I would see such a magical
thing.
One only
has to go to any major city today, and there they are, layer upon layer of
highway intersecting, crossing, and dividing the city.
I wish I
could go back and see what they predicted for communication. Could they have
foreseen cellular phones, Skype, the Internet? When I see the changes in just
my lifetime, it boggles my mind to think what is possible for the future.
It’s a
whole new world for me and although I haven’t been in the foremost ship sailing
onto these strange new waters, I’ve not been on the shore observing. I
sometimes feel like I’m being swept away, and it takes all my energy and smarts
to just keep my head above water. I’ve had some concerns about drowning in all
this new lingo. But step by step, and with a lot of help from my computer guru
and friends, I’m moving right along. (And my Angels in Disguise have been
there all along, doing their magic.)
A friend
said I should make a book trailer for my book Suicide: Living With the
Question. “But it’s not a movie,” I said. And then I discovered not only
movies have trailers for marketing, books do as well. So I did a little
research and emailed my family and some friends for ideas. They came through.
(Lord love ‘em, they always do.) My grandson Spencer had composed some music he
thought would work, so he zipped it to me. My friend Mark had videos I could
look at, so I drove to his apartment one Sunday afternoon. And voila!
Two hours later I had a book trailer. Magic.
I want to
share it with you. Would love your feedback. I also request that you share it
with your networks. I want to market this book as from the responses I get, it
seems to bring comfort and valuable information to the reader.
Here’s the
link:
Thanks for being a part of my network. I’m grateful for all
you do in the world and I value our relationship.
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