In a press release, Amazon called Martin Crosbie one of
their success stories of 2012. His self-publishing journey has been chronicled
in Publisher's Weekly, Forbes Online, and Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper. He’s
the author of six books including the Kindle Scout winner “The Dead List – A
John Drake Mystery”.
Martin was born in the Highlands of Scotland and currently
makes his home just outside Vancouver, on the west coast of Canada.
Last year on the
night after Christmas, even though it had been an exceptionally busy day, I
drove a car-load of family members around the streets of our town. For two and
a half hours we drove up and down roads searching out the brightest, most
illuminating lights on people’s houses and lawns. My eighty-six year old
passenger in the back seat, wrapped in a blanket and clutching a mug of hot
chocolate, smiled the whole time and asked me pull over and look at every light
on every street. Two days later we took her into hospital and three weeks after
that we lost her.
Doreen Clark was diagnosed with
cancer when she was thirty years old. It was a form of cancer that took
ninety-five percent of its victims. She beat it. In the following fifty-six
years she lost a kidney, suffered heart failure, lost the ability to walk
without a walker and overcame it all. She beat everything that was thrown at
her. Some people are resilient, she was more than that. She was unbreakable.
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