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Originally Posted by BirdDancer
I was even thinking the editor of Bp Magazine. They are always looking for articles or even themes for the season's magazine itself. Every season there is a featured topic with a long article/story about it. That also shows up on their popular website I mentioned, which is bpHope.com | Hope & Harmony for People with Bipolar where many of the mentioned contribute. The magazine is quite good, and even many celebs contributed to it, including the late Carrie Fisher and Patty Duke, Kay Redfield Jamison, Demi Lovado, Glenn Close, and many more. Though nothing major, I actually had a little blurb about my former pet parrot published there in a past edition, which featured pets as emotional support. I believe they have had a couple featured articles on the topic of psychiatric hospitals. Isn't your book focused on psychiatric hospitalization? An inquiry with any of these people need not be directly about your book. Just getting them to know your name. By the way, I wonder if you being a doctor and person with bipolar disorder might get attention easier than otherwise?
By the way, do you think that being a doctor (or former one) with bipolar disorder offers a unique perspective into various mental health-related issues? |
You know, I have never read either the magazine or the website. Maybe I should sned off a ntoe and see if anyone might be interested in looking at a chapter maybe, or something. Thanks a million.
I don't know about th doctor thing. I suspect that lay people may think a medical degree has broader implications than those of us in the biz recognize it to, in fact, signify. Medicine is so hyper-specialized in the USA when compared to other countries, esp. the UK. Just a totally, totally different type of healthcare. So, what I know about this illness I have learned just as any other patient has, not really becuase of my education. Yes, I can read all the medical journals with ease, so, that can be an advantage. But I have always considered myself anothe rbp 1 patient, just like anyone else...
I really appreciate your input, BD--thanks so much. And keep writing!! Writers write. Real writers don't write to publish, a successful author once told me. They write becaue they love to write and because they are compelled to do so. Just a thought.