Cancer Awareness Month

Today I am sharing about Writers Unite to Fight Cancer warriors who choose to battle cancer with the pen and through other positive forces.

Marilyn Hartness is a survivor of the rare cancer Non-Hodgkin’s Mantle-cell Lymphoma. She is  the author of inspirational memoir Brave the Day: An Account of Surviving Cancer. Marilyn donates half the profits from her book sales to the Leukemia Lymphoma Society for research. At the end of her book, Marilyn shares recipes of her favorite dishes that she ate while going through chemotherapy and radiation and continues to eat today. She has given permission to publish them in the WUFC cookbook: Cauldron of Love. Marilyn also participates in fundraising marathons.
 

 
 Dr. Lise Alschuler is the co-author of Five To Thrive: Your Cutting-Edge Cancer Prevention Plan, with Karolyn Gazella, medical journalist.  Their newest book: The Definitive Guide to Thriving After Cancer: A Five-Step Integrative Plan to Reduce the Risk of Recurrence and Build Lifelong Health focusses on cancer prevention for cancer survivor who have increased risk for reoccurrence and secondary cancers due to chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Lise Alschuler is a naturopathic oncologist who is a breast cancer survivor, or as she coins it, thriver.  Karolyn Gazella was living her dream until cancer paid a heart-breaking visit. Her sister was diagnosed with breast cancer, their mother died of advanced pancreatic cancer, and Karolyn was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

Holly Rose is the founder of Don’t be a Chump! Check for a Lump! She discovered she had breast cancer at the age of 39 after being reminded on Facebook to perform a self-breast exam. Holly Rose has chosen to share her inspirational journey through breast cancer and so much more in her book, “Live and Give: Facebooking My Way Through Breast Cancer.”   She is an active breast cancer prevention advocate with Don’t Be a Chump! Check for a Lump! events, which include Wig Out to provide breast cancer patients with free wigs and an annual Flash Mob.


 

Dr. Cay Randall-May is and artist author of several books and CD’s including: Healing and the Creative Response, Four Key Steps Shared by Artists and Healers”  This book demystifies natural and spiritual healing and cites specific examples drawn from various modalities including prayer, laying-on-of-hands, Therapeutic Touch, Reiki, and Energy Medicine.  The author explains that these share four Key Steps: 1. set intention; 2. relax and clear; 3. engage and blend; 4. attune to the highest, unconditional love. Dr. Cay Randall-May is a cancer survivor. 

Kim Adair is a colo-rectal cancer survivor. During the follow-up, her surgeon asked if she'd heard Katie Couric was coming to town. She decided to go and meet her as she had lost her husband to colon cancer. At the fundraiser lunch for Rocky Mountain Cancer Center Kim filled out an "ask Katie a question" card: "Why are more and more women getting colon cancer and what can we do about it?" Katie answered: "Get the word out about early detection." Kim proceeded to found Butt-Check.org and has been an activist for colon cancer prevention ever since.


Lisa Finder, author of Black Sand, is the CEO of 4Best Life, a pharmanaturals company. She founded the White Lions Foundation in 2010 as a non-profit organization dedicated to research and education in alternative cancer therapies.  Lisa is one of the Writers Unite to Fight Cancer original eight authors and supports us by extending non-profit status through White Lions.  

A Solitary Occupation Improved with a Group Endeavor

Writing is a solitary occupation that requires concentration and dedication - a perfect job for a recluse. Mothers usually don't have this luxury unless they wait until the wee hours of the night, and then they are still interrupted by a child who is afraid of the monster in the closet, the sick baby who needs tending and more. Distractions abound, yet there are examples of successful mommy authors who persevered including ANWA president Janette Rallison and famous J. K. Rowling.

Cauldron of Love

Writers Unite to Fight Cancer are crafting their first cookbook! You are invited to participate by sending in your favorite recipe to be included. Cauldron of Love will include all the categories of traditional cookbooks plus additional categories:

• R&R recipes - items for home spa and so forth
• Appetite friendly recipes - items for  people with loss of appetite such as patients going through chemotherapy
• Juice  - cleansing or detoxifying recipes

 

Recipes should include items and measurements with instructions,  ADA label information if available, and a high resolution, >300 dpi full color jpg, picture of the final product / plated item. 

 

There is no limit to the number of recipes any one individual or group / organization may submit for consideration to be included in the Cauldron of Love. All submitters who are published in the cookbook will be allowed a 150 word bio with links to their own websites/blogs. In addition the submitter may choose to include a personality recipe that describes themselves or their group.

 

The purpose for this cookbook is to raise operational funds for Writers Unite to Fight Cancer , WUFC. (All published authors are invited to join WUFC.) We will be holding a Kickstarter Campaign with the Cauldron of Love during Cancer Awareness month, October 2013.

 

Send your recipes or additional categories you would like to see included in Cauldron of Love via email to writersunitetofightcancer@gmail.com . 

 

Writers Unite to Fight Cancer

Contact:

 

Margaret L. Turley, Administrator

Writers Unite to Fight Cancer

1146 N. Mesa Dr. #102-233

Mesa, Arizona  85201

480-586-7902

http://writersunitetofightcancer.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2nd Annual WUFC Writing Contest

The Drive to Thrive is the theme for our 2nd Annual WUFC Writing Contest.  We are accepting entries until midnight on August 15th, 2013.  Everyone over the age of 18 is eligible to enter. Contestants may have been published before, or be a first time writer. Subject matter may be on any topic as long as it follows the theme of the Drive to Thrive. Please do not submit items that have been previously published in other formats. Word Count limit for all category / genres submissions is 4000 words.

Entry Fee is $30.00 per submission. There is no limit to the number of submissions allowed. The funds raised from entry fees and sales of books above the cost of production will be donated to the combined cancer research program at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and Arizona State University under the Direction of Robert Waters, PhD.

Categories include:

Fiction - Short Stories or partial novels - all genres middle grade up to adult. (Partial novels must have a resolution within the text submitted.) Mystery, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Steam Punk, Dystopia  Historical, Inspirational, Paranormal, Speculative, Romance, Suspense,  and/or Western.

Non-Fiction - Essay, Inspirational, Motivational Speeches, Self-Help / How To articles, Memoir / auto-biography and Biography.

We are looking for entries that show the drive or will to thrive through and after life challenges - not just survive.

Do Not Submit: Horror, Erotica, Poetry, and Foul or Vulgar language.

The Theme for the
WUFC 2012 Writing Contest
was Courage to Thrive.

Finalists and Winners will be given the opportunity to be published in the 2nd WUFC Writing Contest Anthology if they are willing work with one of our editors – at no charge.

Send submissions to:

Margaret L. Turley, Administrator
1146 N. Mesa Dr. #102-233

writersunitetofightcancer@gmail.com                                 Mesa, AZ  85201

Website: http://writersunitetofightcancer.com
480-586-7902 – cell phone

All published authors are invited to join Writers Unite to Fight Cancer (WUFC).

If authors do not live in an area where we hold our events, (mostly Phoenix and Tucson Arizona) they can still participate by having their books included in our on-line bookstore, and volunteering to judge entries for the writing contest and or edit entries in preparing them to be published in the Writing Contest Anthology.  Please email Margaret Turley at: writersunitetofightcancer@gmail.com for more information.

by Margaret L. Turley