This is a Blog of thanks to all you bloggers out there who have purchased Sisters by Heart. Kay and I are extremely pleased and grateful.... we have been filling orders from both Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. The very fact that there are readers out there who are holding our book in their hands about to enjoy the humor, pathos and devotion depicted on the pages is very heart-warming.
The illustrations in the book were done by Jim Dugan a Gay friend from Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire and former partner of our friend Paul about whom I blogged last Saturday. Jim was dying when he finished the last of the illustrations for our book. He had Acute Adult Onset Leukemia which manifests itself through internal bleeding. At first the disease can be kept under control with transfusions but after a while the blood out-go, out races the transfusions. He finally told his doctors to stop wasting the blood on him and he quietly bled to death. His last words were, "I didn't know it would take so long to die". Jim illustrated two of my books which are special examples of a very dear and talented man. Now Paul is on his way to be with Jim again.
It's a blue/gray Monday here in New Hampshire and as I am a child of the sunshine, the gloomy day affects me. But none of that dims the appreciation I have for those of you who ordered Sisters by Heart. Although it's a book about gay relationships it's also about choosing an alternative lifestyle. To discover why I chose to have a woman in my life you'll need to order, On the Wings of A Unicorn also available at Amazon.Com.
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