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BookMark: Life-Changing Secrets I’ve Learned From Interviewing Authors

I invite you to download the first chapter free here.  I loved writing this manuscript.  And, now BookMark is being shopped to agents and publishers.   You are welcome to share your thoughts with me in the comments below.  If you are an agent or publisher, and love what you see, please contact me.

book icon BookMark: Chapter One

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All inquiries:

Diana Page Jordan (503) 381-3126

BookMark is memoir, told in vignettes, interweaving excerpts from hundreds of interviews I’ve conducted with bestselling authors.  It is part “Cinderella,” part Terry Gross, many of the vignettes gathered around life lessons.  At the core, BookMark is about Transcending the Trauma, to inspire readers who may have suffered horrors in their own lives, to find the brilliance in their lives and attract more beauty and wisdom.

This is my unique story, blended with journalistic training and integrity:

I was born in New York, and lived the first few years in an apartment on the Upper West Side, my grandparents’ home filled with magic, music, healing, and love.  But at age four, I was removed to an isolated town outside the City.  I never saw my real father again, except for once when I was six, an event which ended tragically.  And, I was brought up by my stepfather, a tall, dark, handsome violent pedophile, and my beautiful mother who is a suicidal, alcoholic schizophrenic.  Both are skilled actors.  I survived through my rich fantasy life…and through books.

Fast-forward to a career as broadcast journalist and an author-interviewer – once afraid to speak — now talking to authors whose books grace The New York Times Bestsellers list, and finding that the right author comes to town at the right time.

There is a lot of talk about The Secret and Law of Attraction, but readers who have been traumatized, especially early in life, are often trapped by beliefs formed during times of torture that are no longer relevant.  BookMark lights a path toward healing and hope.

BookMark is powerful, inspiring, and enlightening, and is currently looking for a publisher.

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    shannon leonetti said,

    September 21, 2009 @ 8:21 pm

    When I read the title of your book in the willamette week newsletter I went running to amazon and to powells, wanting to secure a copy! Then I read this web site and found it hasn’t been published…..how sad. What’s next?

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      Diana Page Jordan said,

      September 22, 2009 @ 5:03 am

      Shannon,
      I really appreciate your enthusiasm, but I’m sorry you are disappointed. It’s a good thing: my manuscript, BookMark: Life-Changing Secrets I’ve Learned from Interviewing Authors, is being shopped right now. You will get some sense of the book during the Willamette Writers meeting Tuesday, October 6th. Also, on the next night, I will be doing a workshop called Rev Up Your Life — drawing from some of the same material. Here’s a link: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/tools/invite/4428639
      Stay in touch!
      Thanks,
      Diana

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