Sean Coons is a writer, musician, and educator in Redondo Beach, California. His novel, Body, is scheduled for release November 21, 2019 and is available for pre-order today.
Sean Coons is a writer, musician, and educator in Redondo Beach, California. His novel, Body, is scheduled for release November 21, 2019 and is available for pre-order today.
Sean Coons is a writer, musician, and educator in Redondo Beach, California. His novel, Body, is scheduled for release November 21, 2019 and is available for pre-order today.
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From Heather Creekmore, author of Compared to Who?: A Proven Path to Improve Your Body Image . . .
“Body crafts thought-provoking insights into a relatable, satisfying, and enjoyable story. Sean Coons captures the reality of a woman’s struggle with body image issues in such a genuine way—it’s as if he’s read my thoughts and transcribed them on the page! This book offers truths and inspiration for any woman who’s ever wondered if her body is good enough.”
SYNOPSIS
Hope hates her body. She always has. The fact that she’s a graphic artist who manipulates images of women’s bodies for a living only makes matters worse.
Hope’s teenage niece, Lana, has a physique Photoshop can’t touch. But in her dance world, finesse in motion requires mastery of body, which, for Lana, spirals into obsession.
Looking into the mirror, Hope and Lana have in mind a continually altering ideal of beauty defined always as thinner than they are in the moment.
Hope turns to her preternaturally trim friend, Lilith, for help. Comedy ensues as Hope mimics Lilith’s alpha female style, storming through life solving her problems and losing weight—that is until her new inauthentic persona leads to catastrophe. At her lowest, Hope meets Joy, a quirky mentor offering ancient truths of physical health and spiritual peace that will change Hope’s and Lana’s lives forever.
HELP SPREAD THE WORD!
There are several ways you can help make Body a success . . .
Grab a copy, read it, and recommend it to a friend. Body will be sold via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers in the lead-up to its November release date. However, pre-orders are available directly from my publisher, Black Rose Writing, today. Enter Promo Code PREORDER2019 to receive a 15% discount.
Suggest Body as a resource for organizations focusing on negative body image/eating disorder recovery, faith, &c.
Suggest Body to libraries and independent bookstores near you (click here to find outlets in your area).
Follow my author page on Facebook, and let’s follow each other on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Goodreads, and Reddit. Comment, share, like, and repost updates about Body on your social media accounts
Rate and review Body onAmazon, GoodReads, Barnes & Noble, BooksaMillion, and other platforms. I will post links via social media once Body is officially for sale and/or reviewable on these sites.
Do you know any radio or podcast hosts that might be interested in interviewing me about Body? Please let me know so Black Rose Writing can reach out to them to make arrangements.
Please let me know if you belong to a club or organization that would be interested in a guest speaker—I’d love to speak to them.
Enter Promo Code PREORDER2019 to receive a 15% discount.
From Heather Creekmore, author of Compared to Who?: A Proven Path to Improve Your Body Image
“Body crafts thought-provoking insights into a relatable, satisfying, and enjoyable story. Sean Coons captures the reality of a woman’s struggle with body image issues in such a genuine way—it’s as if he’s read my thoughts and transcribed them on the page! This book offers truths and inspiration for any woman who’s ever wondered if her body is good enough.”
SYNOPSIS
Hope hates her body. She always has. The fact that she’s a graphic artist who manipulates images of women’s bodies for a living only makes matters worse.
Hope’s teenage niece, Lana, has a physique Photoshop can’t touch. But in her dance world, finesse in motion requires mastery of body, which, for Lana, spirals into obsession.
Looking into the mirror, Hope and Lana have in mind a continually altering ideal of beauty defined always as thinner than they are in the moment.
Hope turns to her preternaturally trim friend, Lilith, for help. Comedy ensues as Hope mimics Lilith’s alpha female style, storming through life solving her problems and losing weight—that is until her new inauthentic persona leads to catastrophe. At her lowest, Hope meets Joy, a quirky mentor offering ancient truths of physical health and spiritual peace that will change Hope’s and Lana’s lives forever.
HELP SPREAD THE WORD!
There are several ways you can help make Body a success . . .
Grab a copy, read it, and recommend it to a friend. Body will be sold via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers in the lead-up to its November release date. However, pre-orders are available directly from my publisher, Black Rose Writing, today. Enter Promo Code PREORDER2019 to receive a 15% discount.
Suggest Body as a resource for organizations focusing on negative body image and eating disorder recovery, faith, &c.
Suggest Body to libraries and independent bookstores near you (click here to find outlets in your area).
Follow my author page on Facebook, and let’s follow each other on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Goodreads, and Reddit. Comment, share, like, and repost updates about Body on your social media accounts
Rate and review Body onAmazon, GoodReads, Barnes & Noble, BooksaMillion, and other platforms. I will post links via social media once Body is officially for sale and/or reviewable on these sites.
Do you know any radio or podcast hosts that might be interested in interviewing me about Body? Please let me know so Black Rose Writing can reach out to them to make arrangements.
Please let me know if you belong to a club or organization that would be interested in a guest speaker—I’d love to speak to them.
I love Mozart and birds, so this was pretty much a guaranteed winner. Beautiful exploration of music, man, and nature — and the transcendent intersection of the three.
Sean Coons is a writer, musician, and educator in Redondo Beach, California. His novel, Body, is scheduled for release November 21, 2019 and is available for pre-order today.
Parenting Tip: Watch TV shows from the 50’s and 60’s with your children. Then, when you give them a shiny nickel for a chore, they’ll think you’re totally generous.
Sean Coons is a writer, musician, and educator in Redondo Beach, California. His novel, Body, is scheduled for release November 21, 2019 and is available for pre-order today.
Billy slipped out of time Into the bliss of Father’s arms In the Light of the Son And the Peace of Ruach.
The preacher’s Source echoes Forever ago and forever future, In Actions which blast past the torn veil To the Crux of the mistiest of Mysteries: That the Source of You Is the God of Love.
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the Eighty-eighth.
By the President: Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward,
Secretary of State
Sean Coons is a writer, musician, and educator in Redondo Beach, California. His novel, Body, is scheduled for release November 21, 2019 and is available for pre-order today.
I recorded my version of the timeless classic “Battle Hymn of the Republic” in honor of our American Veterans and those serving in the Armed Forces on this Veterans Day. The musical execution could be improved by a better equipped performer, but it is offered with deep gratitude and sincerity.
If you want to hear the most powerful version of the tune in existence, check out this arresting performance by Judy Garland, sung for a 1963 television special honoring the recently slain John F. Kennedy.
Note the ascending key movements. Chills and tears.
As has been often said, we are home of the free because of the brave. Thank you, Veterans.
Battle Hymn of the Republic | Lyrics by Julia Ward Howe
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored,
He has loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword
His truth is marching on.
Chorus:
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps
His day is marching on.
Chorus
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnish`d rows of steel,
“As ye deal with my contemnors, so with you my grace shall deal;”
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel
Since God is marching on.
Chorus
He has sounded from the trumpet that shall never call retreat
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
Chorus
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.
Chorus
Sean Coons is a writer, musician, and educator in Redondo Beach, California. His novel, Body, is scheduled for release November 21, 2019 and is available for pre-order today.
If you haven’t done so, check out Bob Dylan’s early work. “In My Time of Dyin’,”Man of Constant Sorrow,” “House of the Risin’ Sun,” “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding).” Headphones in place. Darkish room. Eyes closed. You will be transported to another time and place.
And, his book Chronicles, Volume One, is an amazing read. He got some grief for plagiarism, but the stories are expertly told, insightful, transcendent, and fun to read (whether some other writers may have unknowingly contributed to them or not).
Of course, he’s in the news this week for winning the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature, the first musician to ever receive the prize, and for failing to respond publicly to the announcement of his award. A Nobel academy member called him “impolite” and “arrogant” for daring not to respond to such an esteemed honor. I think I read somewhere that it’s not a good idea to be a pleaser of men. I don’t know if that’s what Mr. Dylan has in mind in choosing not to acknowledge the not so noble Nobel givers, nor the prize, which has its roots in the invention of a powerful explosive, but I’m pretty sure he’s not losing any sleep over this petty man’s view of him regardless.
. . .
I took a road trip to Texas in ’97 with two friends. We stayed in Austin at a young woman’s home. We were told she had some issues with mania. She wasn’t at her home, but as you walked through the apartment, there was writing, in Sharpie, everywhere. Walls. Appliances. Mirrors. Ceiling. Toilet Seat. Everywhere. We were told by her friend and our host that she asks everyone who visits to leave words behind, and we were expected to do the same. I remember being surprised that I had no hesitation when it was time for me to leave my message. I drew a picture of the Earth with an umbilical cord leading to a preborn baby. In a circle around my “art” I wrote the words: “He not busy being born is busy dying.” I’m always hopeful the woman enjoyed my offering when she returned home, and more importantly, that her mind is well. Dig this live version of the song from which I plagiarized my aphorism — and MAY YOU BE BUSY BEING BORN…
Sean Coons is a writer, musician, and educator in Redondo Beach, California. His novel, Body, is scheduled for release November 21, 2019 and is available for pre-order today.
