The Bipolar Dementia Art Chronicles
The memoir I've been working on for five years is finally in print. I have published books in the past with Regnery & Company, Fearon Publishers, Watson-Guptill, and others. I've even had an agent. But it's gotten a lot harder to find agents and publishers today, and I got tired of sending out query letters and waiting months for a reply.
After some research, I found Booklocker.Com and decided to publish my book with them through POD (print on demand) and ebook (a pdf format file which is downloaded from the internet and read with Adobe Reader software). I am very happy with the results--my book looks like any other paperback you might find at Amazon or Borders. I'm also thrilled with the cover design they did for me:
In this book I struggle to make art in spite of ongoing depression and the overwhelming responsibility of managing the lives of my father and ex-mother-in-law as they age, and their mental and physical health deteriorates.
If you are interested in the life of an artist, issues of depression and bipolar disorder, or the challenges of caregiving for elderly parents, I think you will find this book a moving account of one woman's experience with all three.
Lynne Taetzsch's issues of aging parents, sibling conflict, depression, bipolar disorder, sandwich generations, health care bureaucracies and facilities, the creative instinct, the meaning of life, and the possibility of happiness will touch a wide readership in our times. Told with quiet humor and insight, her memoir is both healing and compulsively readable. --Pamela Evans, Evans Editorial Services.
The book is available through Booklocker.Com. It can also be ordered from Barnes & Noble, Amazon, or any other bookstore.
jeez Lynn - I didn't know you were one of the millions of people afflicted with this! I have been battling a bit of depression myself, and recognized my symptoms as a "highly sensitive person". Didn't know you had a blog - it seems we both come up in a blog search for "artist".
Robin
Posted by: Robin Walker | January 20, 2006 at 11:49 AM
Nice web site, did you create it? If so you,
you are gifted in more ways than one! I really enjoy your art. Thanks for sharing.
David Helmericks
abxart@yahoo.com
Posted by: David Helmericks | January 22, 2006 at 07:48 AM