Open this email to meet our new author, Cindy Weinstein, and discover new programs for authors and caregivers

Jan 18, 2022 8:35 pm

Dear AlzAuthor,

Thanks for your contributions to AlzAuthors. We appreciate every author's story, each Facebook and LinkedIn share, Instagram like and comment, and retweet. Our goal is to connect writers to readers seeking the best resources created from personal experience with Alzheimer's and dementia. As you read our weekly emails and follow our social media posts, please continue to share our content across your own platforms, including any online or in-person support groups you attend. In this newsletter you’ll find two virtual events in the works, one for you and one for your readers. Share widely: there are millions of caregivers out there starving for information and insight, and we have it. Remember: you are not alone, on either the caregiver or the author journey.

Introducing

In her powerful story Finding The Right Words, Cindy Weinstein shares a beautiful collaboration of literature and science to help us understand Alzheimer's disease.

Cindy writes:

My goal was to write a book that told the individual story of my father, his illness me, a girl from New Jersey who loved literature, and also told a general story about people with dementia, their brains, and their caregivers.

Read the entire post:

https://alzauthors.com/2022/01/18/cindy-weinstein-finding-right-words/

Please click the link below to retweet the announcement of this post:

https://twitter.com/AlzAuthors/status/1483533558895550466

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On The Podcast

Season 8 starts this week with Barbara Ella Milton, Jr., Ph. D. a licensed clinical social worker who heeded the call when her mother asked for help after an Alzheimer's diagnosis. At the time, she was battling cancer, and asked herself three questions: Could I? Should I? Would I? In this episode, we discuss how she managed her mother’s care while managing her own, dealing with deep-rooted trust issues, becoming the conductor of an orchestra of help, and the 40 first dates of iterative grief. Start listening!

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Each season our podcast brings you six of our authors sharing their dementia journeys. Please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform so you don’t miss a word. If our authors’ stories move you please leave a review. And don’t forget to share our podcast with family and friends in need of knowledge, comfort and support on their own dementia journeys.

Untangling Alzheimer's and Dementia is hosted by The Whole Care Network. Find resources and stories shared by caregivers for caregivers, podcasts, blogs, videos and more!

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Build Your Author Platform

Please join us for our next Writers Group Live! (formerly Meet Up) on Wednesday, January 26 at 7 pm EST via Zoom to learn how to build that all important author platform. We’ll discuss why and how to create a hub on the internet to promote your work, and how to use social media and other measures to drive people to your hub. RSVP here.

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Please join us for AlzAuthors Live!

Please join us for the first in our new series AlzAuthors Live!, virtual events featuring select guests on important topics. On February 9, from 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. EST, we will present Love Stories: Keeping Romance Alive in Dementia Care. The program is free, on Zoom, and will be recorded for future viewing on YouTube. Find more details and reserve your spot here.

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Start Networking: Join our Author Directory

AlzAuthors was founded for three authors to cross promote their dementia books so readers could better find them. This blossomed over six years into a network of 300+ authors spreading information about Alzheimer’s and dementia awareness and our own stories, books, blogs and other resources. As a contributor to AlzAuthors, you have the ability to connect with these authors to help cross promote your own work. Our directory makes it easy to find promo partners to help with blogging opportunities, newsletter swapping, social media shares, special events, and more. Inclusion in the directory is voluntary. If you would like to be available to others looking for partners please upload your contact information and links to your platform to the spreadsheet found here. This is a collaborative effort. Please do not share this document with others outside our network.

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Get Listed in Our New Audiobook Directory

Is your book available on audio? If so, please add it to our Audiobook Directory. According to Statista, In 2020, audiobook sales revenue in the United States reached 1.3 billion U.S. dollars, continuing the upward trend which began in 2018. We will be doing special promos for audiobooks only in 2022, and want to be sure yours is included. Add your book to the directory here.

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Donate Your Book to Our New Traveling Library

We are excited to announce our newest Traveling Library is taking shape in Georgia thanks to Debra Tann, author of The Race of Dementia. If you would like to donate a copy of your book, please mail it to:

Debra Tann

5044 George Register Road

Valdosta, GA 31605

Our libraries visit Alzheimer's and dementia caregiving events, so that caregivers can see, feel, and touch the resources available at AlzAuthors. We now have Traveling Libraries in seven states, including North Carolina, Ohio, New York, Montana, Texas, California, and Georgia.

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HFC's CareCon Returns!

Join our friends at HFC on Friday, February 18th - National Caregivers Day - for their 2nd annual CareCon: a free, virtual event designed to educate, inspire, and empower Alzheimer's and dementia family caregivers with support, knowledge, and community. Register here.

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Our mission is to provide quality resources for those concerned with Alzheimer’s and dementia. If you would like to help here are several ways you can support us:

Become an AlzAuthors Donor

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