[MGP-Forum Announce] PTSD in the News: OEF/OIF PTSD Book Blurbs or Review Request

Wed Dec 6 18:19:10 CST 2006

<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0977197271/104-9749479-4547149?ie=UTF8&tag
=imprintinkcom-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0977197271>
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0977197271/104-9749479-4547149?ie=UTF8&tag
=imprintinkcom-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0977197271> Hi Media
Giraffe Project friends!

Heard the good news from Bill Densmore that MGP is planning to be in Memphis
next month conducting sessions in concert with the Nat'l Conference for
Media Reform! Wondering who's going? I (and perhaps one more colleague from
ePluribus Media) am tentatively planning to be there. And I'm bringing
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/ilonameagher/sets/72157594184890056/>  my
camera. :o)

Have been enjoying the discussions on the list the past few months;
apologies for not contributing more.

I've been busy since summer writing my first book, Moving a Nation to Care:
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and America's Returning Troops. It's slowly
coming online (on Amazon.com
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0977197271/104-9749479-4547149?ie=UTF8&tag
=imprintinkcom-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0977197271>
already.yikes). 

My publisher is asking me now to line up some of my 'big name' high-roller,
high-profile journalist and blogger contacts asking if any might honor me
and my humble work with the offer of a brief quote, jacket blurb, blog post,
full book review, or - heck, even any awards you may want to shower on us.
Bill has already honored me by giving the green light to send him out a
review copy. Would anyone else care to be included on my list?

Manuscript copies will be ready in a few weeks; bound galley copies in about
6 or so. Where may I mail your copy?

Finally, combat PTSD has exploded in the media this week with NPR's
<http://ptsdcombat.blogspot.com/2006/12/reminder-fort-carson-investigation-o
n.html>  Fort Carson investigation.  Related to this, ePluribus Media and I
have ramped up our work again on the PTSD
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0977197271/104-9749479-4547149?ie=UTF8&tag
=imprintinkcom-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0977197271>  Timeline,
tracking incidents of OEF/OIF combat-related PTSD. The project, which began
in 2005, has caught the attention of Sen. Kerry's office and others as well.
(See WireTap <http://www.wiretapmag.org/warandpeace/42845/> , FOX News
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,190396,00.html> , and USAToday
<http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2006/11/little_help_for.html>  for
more buzz on what we've been doing.)

I'll end this long-winded email (I mean, you don't hear from me for months!)
with one of the most touching recent mentions, from a blogger named D-Day. I
met him briefly at YearlyKos last year; it sums up a lot of the feelings
many of us CJs have out here about the work we're trying to do:

PTSD <http://d-day.blogspot.com/2006/12/ptsd-and-power-of-new-media.html>
and the Power of the New Media

While saddened and disgusted by this tragedy happening to so many of our
troops, I was also happy this was finally getting the attention it deserved.
And that's because I first learned about PTSD online, most notably from
ilona at ePluribusMedia
<http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2006/12/3/231421/666> , a
collaborative media community that sprung up in 2005. The media still
perceives bloggers as wild and crazy yahoos ranting and raving from their
bedrooms, but ePluribusMedia is actually dedicated to investigative research
and issue advocacy at the level of citizen journalism. These reports on
PTSD, which I'm sure most listeners today found shocking, I already knew
about because of the great work being done in the blogosphere.

It really is changing the model of who are the gatekeepers of the news, who
decides what matters and what doesn't. I'm proud to have met Ilona Meagher,
an ordinary American who decided to look into this issue from a nonpartisan
perspective and raise awareness. She's written a book on this subject called
Moving a Nation To Care, and if this interests you I'd suggest you pick it
up.

I'm not necessarily a blog triumphalist, but it does consistently amaze me
what a few committed people can do.

Hope everyone's having a great holiday season!

Cheers -- Ilona 

 <http://ptsdcombat.blogspot.com/> PTSD Combat: Winning the War Within

=============================

Ilona Meagher, Editor

 <http://ptsdcombat.blogspot.com/> PTSD Combat: Winning the War Within

Pre-order
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0977197271/104-9749479-4547149?ie=UTF8&tag
=imprintinkcom-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0977197271> Moving a
Nation to Care

 <mailto:ptsdcombat at insightbb.com> ptsdcombat at insightbb.com

815.885.4650

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