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In honor of Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month, we are offering the “Possibilities” eBook for only $0.99. To order, simply go to Amazon or Barnes & Noble and download right away. I am happy to offer this with no strings attached; HOWEVER, if I may be so bold, I am politely requesting all of my readers who have not already written a […]

          I have to hand General Perry Smith a ton of credit for helping me both promote Possibilities and guide me through the maze of considerations often experienced by first time authors.  Indeed, Perry also has a new book, Courage, Compassion, Marine, which is a new wonderfully written biography about Jimmy Dyess, who […]

 Tara and Turner at Big Sur It’s a long and beautiful road, from the pristine New England Coast, to the blue Gulf at Fairhope, AL and ultimately to the dramatic broad, golden horizons of Southern and Northern California.   Tara and I have been overwhelmed by the consistently wonderful receptions we have received everywhere along […]

Looking forward to seeing my friends in the Upstate of South Carolina this Monday, June 22 from 5-6:30pm. Each tour stop seems to have grown in interest and attention. The engagement of the audiences in New York and Connecticut were amazing, demonstrating to me just how wide-spread our followers were during the actual journey between […]

Thanks, again, to Tucker Carlson for your interest in this story. http://video.foxnews.com/v/4266097396001/father-pens-book-about-sons-battle-with-cancer/?playlist_id=930909787001#sp=show-clips

If you are up early on Saturday, tune in to Fox and Friends with Tucker Carlson tomorrow, May 30, at 7:20 for a brief talk about Possibilities.  Thanks to Trent Bullis for introducing Tucker to this story.

Well, maybe “East Coast” sounds a bit lofty, but the book tour, which has gotten off to a great a truly humbling (in the greatest possible way) start will take us from the Gulf to the Northeast and many places in between.   Click the link below for the full schedule; but the “Tour,” which includes […]

  Order Up!   OK… we are ready to launch.  Possibilities is finally available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.  Therefore, I will keep this post short and to the point.  Direct links are: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_2_14?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=possibilities%20turner%20simkins&sprefix=possibilities+%2Caps%2C514 http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/possibilities-n-turner-simkins/1121602055?ean=9781632990235 The inaugural book launch event is being hosted by the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta on April 15, […]

Wow… I have been overwhelmed with the extraordinarily positive comments looking forward to Possibilities.   I have just signed off on the FINAL edit, which means Greenleaf has submitted the manuscript to Amazon.  Looks like the eBook will be available in a couple of weeks and the printed version will be available close to the April 15 […]

Writing a book… wow.  An awful lot of good people had been encouraging me to write a book which capsualized my pediatric cancer war diary into a book since Brennan’s first bone marrow transplant in the Fall of ’09.  However, had someone gotten the point through to my thick head that writing and editing a […]