Quiet Angel Publishing Blog

Grand Canyon or Bust…and the Life of a Couch Potato!

quietangel — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:32:13 +0000

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

I will have to admit that for the last month or so I have enjoyed the life of the couch potato! I have sat around eating Christmas cookies and bon-bons and hanging around the house. Although this was quite enjoyable for a time it is really not me and I have decided …. it is time to get moving!!

This year I have decided that it is a “DO” year! No more broken resolutions. I am going to do what it is I have wanted to do and for years it has been hike the Grand Canyon! So, I have paid my down-payment, recruited my wonderful brother and some great friends and in September we are doing it…Rim to Rim! We will be going down the North Rim and back up the South. I am so excited and well… a bit nervous so I am officially off the couch!

I have recruited even more friends and after work each day we are walking/running Signal Hill. For those of you who are not from this area, Signal Hill is its own City in the middle of the City of Long Beach. And it is just that a “Signal” hill right smack in the center with what I might add is quite the HILL. For those of you who would like to check it out it has a very interesting history

http://www.cityofsignalhill.org/index.aspx?nid=218

Now this has been great! Well, you know as far as hard workouts are concerned and some of the guys from work are tough so we are really working out. And this as a side-note is really what I suggest; GET SOMEONE TO DO IT WITH YOU! It truly makes you accountable.

Now to add to this workout I have also signed up for a hiking club in my area that does several hikes every week. This is due to a great idea by one of my best friends Shawnmari (she has a great website too check it out http://www.biopsycheducation.com/ ) and again…GET SOMEONE TO DO IT WITH YOU! This is a great group! Not only do they do hikes all over our area but they are a non-profit too! This non-profit helps to get kids out in the fresh air and in tune with nature! Fantastic…I think our kids these days really need this and I am willing to support it. But it is also FREE, so you can either make a donation or if you are struggling you can join in for FREE! I am sure there is lots of things like this in your area so take a look www.meetup.com is a great place to start. But the name of this group is www.OCHikingClub.com and we are having great fun!

So I have to admit I have a long way to go before I hike the canyon and carry a 35 pound pack on my back, but I am well on my way! So I want to help all of you get started too. So I will be sharing my adventures with the hiking club, the hill and just plain getting in shape with you on my website! I hope this will motivate you and get you off the couch too! After all if an almost (a really big age coming up this year) __ year old (not sure I can say it out loud yet), cancer survivor and a couch potato can hike the Grand Canyon, you can do something every day too!

So let’s get started together!! For the next weeks I will try and post sites that help with exercising and nutrition. Starting this week, along with the OC Hiking Club and Meetup, I will post some sites for Dragon Boating around the world. After all this is a great sport and all teams are willing to help out those who have never done it before and get them in shape. You will be racing in no time!

And all cancer survivors welcome!!

So check out these sites

and let’s….

GET OFF THE COUCH!!

Make it a DO year!

Central Coast Survive Oars, Monterey, California

www.surviveoars.com

NAC Dragon Boat Team, Newport Beach, CA

www.NewportAquaticCenter.com

Los Angeles Pink Dragons, Long Beach, CA

www.LAPinkDragons.org

Team Survivor, San Diego, CA

adair@sandiego.edu

CHRISTMAS BOOK DONATION PROGRAM

quietangel — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:18:37 +0000

Christmas
Book Donation Program

2nd Annual

Christmas Book Donation Program

Cheer Up a
Cancer Patient in the Hospital on Christmas!!

2010 – Orange Coast Oncology

Christmas is the
one day the world stands still and holds hands in celebration. No matter your
faith or your belief, the majority of the world decorates, buys trees, and
exchanges love and gifts. Even neighborhoods, towns, and large cities stop to
decorate and celebrate in the season. We all seem to be united for one small
moment world-wide.

2010 – Mission Hospital

And even though I
think that specific months to raise money and awareness for certain cancers is
wonderful… cancer does not go away in a month.

For those of us who
have had cancer or have cancer, whether healthy or not, we will be effected by
cancer the rest of our lives, as will our families and friends.

2010 – Wrapped Books

So please join me
in bringing one small gesture, a small amount of joy to those and their families
who will be celebrating Christmas in the hospital this year due to
cancer.

Please purchase one
of my books and the book will be signed and wrapped and delivered to hospitals
all over the US, UK and the world to let a cancer patient know we care and to
share a little laughter hopefully brightening their day!

And with
your purchase $5.00 from every book will be donated to one of the following
charities of your choice:

Just Click on
the link below to read more about the charities and choose the Paypal link below
to choose that charity.

To help
the fight against Breast & Ovarian Cancers

FORCE – Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered

Mission
to raise awareness about Positive Social Behavior

BigPinkHeart

Supporting
American Military in their time of need

The Fisher House

This project
created such joy last year and we just got started! This year I hope to bring
even more joy and spread the word of hope and understanding even
further!

MY GOAL
THIS YEAR IS 500 BOOKS!!!

Please
help me to reach this goal!

That would let 500 patients know we
care

and help a charity of your
choice!!

Book
Orders need to be in no later then December 15, 2011

In
order to get the books off to the hospitals in time!

For even more
information go to my website at

Quiet Angel
Publishing – Donate a Book Program

Thank you for your
continued support! It is the love of our family and friends and the new ones we
make on the way that continues to bring joy to our lives!

Happy
Holidays!

All the best to you
and your family,

Regina E.
Savage

Author/Motivational
Speaker
Quiet Angel
Publishing, LLC

www.QuietAngelPublishing.com

info@QuietAngelPublishing.com

(714)
501-1144

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The Lastest Traveling Book Adventures & Up-Coming News!

quietangel — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:46:36 +0000

The Traveling Book

Port Jefferson, New York

Joan & Mae

As I mentioned, at the conference I met some amazing people and one of them was Joan Perrin. Joan was amazing! Fun, funny, interesting and a twin! Joan and her twin Mae along with the rest of their family has been touched by cancer and the BRCA Gene. Joan and Mae have celebrated their 60th Birthday and are blessed by this fact as it was a bit of a road to get there. Twelve years ago Joan was diagnosed with Stage 3 Peritoneal/Ovarian Cancer, she then found out that her cousin was diagnosed with Stage 4 ovarian cancer and other cousins had been diagnosed and were positive for the BRCA gene. Shortly after finding out this information Joan and Mae were tested, both positive, and just a short year later Mae was diagnosed with Peritoneal Cancer. As if this wasn’t enough in 2005 Joan was diagnosed with breast cancer, followed shortly by her twin Mae. Through all of this Joan was incredibly positive and just a joy to meet and I would like you to hear for yourself just how positive she is:

“This past July, my twin and I turned 60, a wonderful milestone considering our medical history. We became involved with FORCE, an organization for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer. This past June we attended our second FORCE Conference, where I had the pleasure of attending a session led by Regina Savage. I shared with her my dream of publishing an anthology of humorous poems that I wrote as my way of coping with my cancer and chemo. We both agreed that laughter is the best way to deal with it. Mae and I were happy to sign the Traveling Book, and send it on it’s way”.

What amazing women!! To stand tall in the face of defeat and survive is truly amazing, to stand tall and keep your positive, upbeat attitude and above all humor intact is truly inspirational! Again, my hats off and truly my honor to meet such amazing women! My heart is truly inspired and has lead me to the months following the conference to help move the book forward, to speak more and to do what I can to help and participate in paying it forward!

Before I end my story about Joan and Mae, I want to pay tribute to their cousin Lana. I did not have the opportunity to meet Lana, but Joan has some amazing words that although Lana was diagnosed with Stage 4 Ovarian Cancer 12 years ago was a constant bright light to Joan. Sadly as Joan and I last spoke, Lana was not doing well and had been moved into hospice here are Joan’s words:

“Lana is the strongest, bravest gal I know. Her support was vital to my recovery. I am hoping that she will be strong enough for Mae and me to visit. I am heart sick about losing her. Lana told me, “Don’t say that I lost my battle with cancer, because I really won. I had 12 years, that the Doctor’s said I wouldn’t have. I saw my daughter get married, and I became the grandma to three beautiful grandchildren.” See what I mean about how inspiring she is”.

I love doing the stories of the Traveling Book, I love speaking to survivors and giving what little wisdom I can to help, but cancer is not always positive, not always a winning story and never easy to deal with. Cancer is a disease that in the last several years has touched us all whether it be a friend, a co-worker, a family member, a loved one, a wife, sister, mother, daughter, brother, husband, partner or son and with this knowledge we are sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker, but hopefully always there for others! As for today and this story, we can learn from the strength these women have to see the positive at the end of the tunnel to stand together and to be grateful for the time we have, something we can all learn from and hopefully live by!

Two more items…..

Christmas Book Donation

The Christmas Book Donation is about to begin! I am excited to host the 2nd Annual Christmas Book Donation Program where books can be purchased and $5 from each purchase will be donated to a charity of your choice and the book will be signed, gift wrapped and delivered to hospitals all over the US. This year I will not only donate to a cancer charity which is FORCE that you just read about, but I will also donate to a community program that is a non-profit based in the UK named BigPinkHeart, we are currently working together to start their wonderful community programs over here, but also The Fisher House which is an amazing organization that helps families of our injured military be able to stay close to the hospital for free in order to be with their loved ones. I wanted to do three charities as I believe cancer survivors will benefit from the book when they receive it so they are being helped along with FORCE. Our community and our children always need help to promote positive attitudes, manners and respect such as BigPinkHeart’s Mission. And we all need to be proud of our military for fighting for our country and our lives and deserve, if they are injured, to have their families with them during this time. So stayed tuned as the information will go out shortly.

Next…

Quiet Angel Publishing, LLC has BIG News!

We are now publishing books! QAP is now working on three inspirational books from the US and a series of children’s books in the UK! And you will want to stay tuned for this as there is lots of exciting news that I will be telling you about shortly!! So keep posted!!

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LIKE us on Facebook!!

FORCE Conference – Orlando, Florida

quietangel — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:19:02 +0000

Well, when I first started to write this blog I was thinking I had dropped the ball on keeping everyone up to date on me and the book. But the more I thought about it, it is more like bouncing the ball then dropping it! I have been so busy speaking, traveling, working on some exciting news and keeping up with everything else that I think it is more precise to say that I have been bouncing the ball from place to place and not really dropping it. Which although I am very blessed to stay busy and doing what I like with the book and my company, I will try and promise not to have such a lengthy delay in the future.

As for now, where to start to catch you all up?

FORCE Conference…..

I will start with Florida and the incredible FORCE Conference that I was asked to attend and had the honor of speaking at, a truly amazing adventure!

At the end of June, I had the honor of flying to Orlando, Florida to speak at the 2011 FORCE Conference. FORCE stands for Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered and
address’ the issue of hereditary breast and ovarian cancers as well as the BRCA Gene. Here is the FORCE mission statement:

“FORCE was founded on the principle that no one should have to face hereditary breast and ovarian cancer alone. We are the only national non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families affected by hereditary breast and ovarian cancer”.

For just a bit more information on the BRCA Gene here is a excerpt from the FORCE
website:

“BRCA1 and BRCA2 are the most common genes involved in hereditary breast and ovarian cancers. Testing can be performed on either a blood or cheek swab sample to tell if a person has one of these BRCA mutations. This test does not detect whether a person has cancer or not; it indicates whether a person carries a change in one of these genes which can increase cancer risk”.

For even more information please go directly to the website at ww.FacingOurRisk.org or speak with your Doctor if you have any other concerns.

So now that you have a some information on what FORCE stands for and how they help to contribute to the knowledge of breast and ovarian cancers let me tell you about my journey in Florida. The conference was amazing! I have never been to such a well organized, well thought out and well put together conference. Thanks to Sue Friedman the founder of FORCE for taking charge and helping so many men and women with this gene and these cancers. In my time and my journey with cancer I have spoken to several groups; support groups, survivors, patients and supporters but this group was different. This group was not only survivors, but men and women, Moms and Dads, husbands and wives and friends who carried the gene, the BRCA gene who were there to find out information on how to help themselves, their families, their loved ones and others. I spoke to women who were there to make a decision on preventative surgeries meaning planning a mastectomy or hysterectomy in order to prevent having the gene and the prognoses of the gene giving them this disease that had already effected their families. What a huge decision. There is a difference when you are faced with the disease and have no choice in the outcome and surgeries, but to be young and trying to face the possibility that cancer will strike and taking preventative measures is hugely different and effects every aspect of your life. For example having children, changing your bodies, living your life with the changes to name a few. My hat is off, my heart is open and I stand in honor of these brave men and women making such tough decisions for their futures. With this background, I want to share that I was there as the comic relief so to speak. The break away session that they could come to in order to finds a little humor, a little inspiration and a break for the amazing information they received at this event! My session was entitled “Mental Makeovers & Savvy Insights” and I touched on how strong we really are in our lives from the very beginning and how we sometimes forget that when the next big challenge comes along and I had an amazing group of women in attendance. For an hour and a half, we laughed, we cried and we shared! I
thought I was there to help them but really they helped me. They made me see that we all need to remember, need to realized that we are so blessed for the breaths we take each day and how we can find strength, courage, camaraderie and humor in even the darkest situations.

Even my Cheerleaders where there to help!

I came away from this weekend not only with a new me, a renewed strength and a renewed belief that if I can share my story and if just one person comes away with something that helped I have done my job, I have played it forward, I can sleep well. And I made some wonderful new friends! Life is good!

Debbie & I relaxing at the end of the day…

After the conference I did get to relaxed and joined my life-long friend Marion in the Florida Keys! Wonderful to see her, wonderful, wonderful time! And I got to relax in the beautiful Florida waters! Again….Life is good!

Living Now Book Award 2011 & Our Trip to NYC

quietangel — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:24:38 +0000

This book has lead me to several wonderful adventures in this past year; new friends, new projects, new non-profits and the public speaking ability that I was not sure I had until now. I have been able to give back and tell my story in the hopes of helping others, but this last adventure was truly amazing and one I will never forget!

I was made aware that my book was up for an award back in the beginning of the year and that I would find out in April. The award ceremony would be held in New York City in May and jokingly I told my Mom that if I won this award she would have to go with me to the City. Well, low and behold…I WON and not just won but won a GOLD Medal!! How exciting!! The title of the award is Living Now Book Award 2011 honoring books for better living!! And in all our excitement my Mom did decide to go with me!! And to make this an even better trip was that two of my good friends John and his partner Dennis live in NY now and we got to stay with them! What more could a gal ask for: an award, a trip with my Mom (who is an inch shy of 80), and two wonderful friends to stay with! Life really is good!

Well us gals took off for our trip and headed to the Big Apple the last weekend of May. John and Dennis met us at JFK and off we were on our NY adventure! My Mom has not been to the city since she was a child, so it was like being there for the first time for her so we wanted her to see the sites! John and Dennis being the best tour guides you could ask for spent their weekend painting the town with us. If things could not get any better, John’s parents who we had met on their visits to California when John and Dennis lived here, came to the City for the day from Pennsylvania to surprise us! And what a fabulous surprise! We ate at Lansky’s Deli and then spent the day at the park, it was COLD, but amazing! All this and the awards ceremony was still to come.

On Monday, mom and I caught up on some rest and got ready for the ceremony which was held at The Providence, this was originally a church and then a recording studio for the likes of Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix and several others. The ceremony was in the late afternoon in order to have everyone ready for Book Expo America which took place the following day.

After getting ready we took a taxi ride to The Providence and what a fun afternoon. The awards ceremony was wonderful! I met other interesting authors, met several people I had spoken with only through email but had not meet in person and I won a gold medal! The medal is just beautiful and I am humbled by experiencing such an honor for a book that I created to help others! Just take a look below! And after the awards, John and Dennis met us and we celebrated at the Marriot Marquis, not only my award but John’s new full time job ! What fun! I wish it was vacation and award winning all the time!!

So after such a fabulous weekend in the City, my Mom wanted to head over to Niagara Falls, she had never been and since we were in the state, why not! So we took the train from Penn Station to beautiful Niagara Falls! It was wonderful! Life is so amazing if you stop to just enjoy it! I am so blessed to have my Mom with me and even more blessed that she is almost 80 and well enough to travel and have fun! And such wonderful friends who just pampered both of us but especially Mom on her big trip! John and Dennis are two of the best people I know and I miss them terribly here in California, but am so happy that modern day travel can make it so easy for us to travel all the way across the states to visit! For those of you who might not remember, John helped with the video and has supported the book and me for as long as I have known him, just truly an amazing friend!

So our journey to the Big Apple was a huge success but not because of the award although I am still so grateful, humbled and truly amazed at the honor but because I spent some amazing time with a wonderful supportive mother and two of my best friends! Again….Life REALLY is good!!

Here is one of my favorite photos of Mom and I at the Falls! What a trouper she is!!

: Maid of the Mist with Mom – Niagara May 2011

Stay posted as my next blog will tell you all about the FORCE Conference – Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered in Orlando, Florida and my first speaking session at a Conference!

We Won the GOLD!!!!

quietangel — Thu, 05 May 2011 01:10:13 +0000

Mirror Makeovers & Savvy Insights

is going to…

BOOKEXPO AMERICA

In the BIG APPLE….

NEW YORK CITY!!!!

View the Book

Click on this link to see the book listed in

BookExpo America

New Title Showcase

We will keep you posted….

All the Gals will be traveling with me and we will keep you posted with pictures and information…so

STAY TUNED!!

But it gets even better then that….

The reason we are going is that we…..

WON the GOLD

Mirror Makeovers & Savvy Insights

is proud to announce that we have won the

Independent Publishers

LIVING NOW BOOK AWARD

Books for Better Living

Gold Medal 2011!!

LIVING NOW BOOK AWARDS

(Check out #10)

And we will be traveling to New York City for the Awards Ceremony and BookExpo America

May 20, 2011

We are so proud and excited to have won this award! But once again, none of this could have been possible without your support! The wonderful people I have met and the places I have been are what inspires me to continue to do my best to help others with my written word! I am truly grateful!

All my best,

Regina E. Savage

Quiet Angel Publishing, LLC

www.QuietAngelPublishing.com

info@QuietAngelPublishing.com

(714) 501-1144

Radio Show Interview

quietangel — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:32:51 +0000

Mirror Makeovers & Savvy Insights

We are very proud to announce….

Our First Interview on a

Nationally Syndicated Radio Show!!

How exciting!!

I had the opportunity to talk about the book on a Nationally Syndicated Radio Show out of Chicago called

“Walking on Air with Betsy and Sal”

It was so much fun and what great gals they are! And their show is very entertaining! I have had several of you ask for the link, so I am attaching it here so you can take a listen!! They asked some great questions and we had a great time! I am sure you will not want to miss it!!

Just click on the link below and go to the first one listed entitled “Lost: Our Hair, Our Liz” my portion is about 20 minutes in and last about 30 minutes!

Radio Interview with Betsy and Sally

Let me know what you think after you listen!! You can post it on Facebook or send me an email at Info@QuietAngelPublishing.com

Thank you for your continued support! The success of the book could not be possible without the help, support, and spreading the word of all of you!

Sincerely,

Regina Savage

Author/Motivational Speaker

Quiet Angel Publishing, LLC

www.QuietAngelPublishing.com

info@QuietAngelPublishing.com

(714) 501-1144

The Iditarod, the UK and Kindle

quietangel — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:05:41 +0000

Mirror Makeovers & Savvy Insights

The Alaskan Iditarod
The UK
And Kindle!

The Last Great Race on Earth
The Alaskan Iditarod
Won by a Cancer Survivor
Lance Mackey
Mouth Cancer Survivor
4x’s in a Row!!
Also participating for her 30th time,
DeeDee Jonrowe
Breast Cancer Survivor!

Let’s Fight Together!

Cancer is a Worldwide Disease!
It not only attacks us here in the US,
but our friends in other countries!

So when I was asked by a friend in the UK to help support a non-profit there!
I said, I would be happy too!
After all….
WE ARE ALL IN THIS FIGHT TOGETHER!!
And if anyone, anywhere can find a CURE…it will help us all!

So in honor of Ms. Verite Reily Collins
of
Having Fun After Cancer

Whose website not only gives important, vital information to cancer survivors worldwide, but is following the cancer survivors who have tackled the hardest race in the world, the Alaskan Iditarod!

And in the excitement of
Mirror Makeovers & Savvy Insights coming out on Kindle
not only in the States, but the UK!

For each ebook purchased on
Kindle
(If Kindle does not come up right away check back in a day or two, it is
publishing currently)
or
Google ebook
(also available in the UK)

Just click on the links above to go right to the books!

For the month of March
(in honor of the survivors in the race)
I will donate $1.00 from each of these sales to
Breakthrough Breast Cancer

Let’s work together to fight this terrible disease!!

Please spread the word!

Google ebook is HERE!!!

quietangel — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:08:06 +0000

For all our Canadian & International Friends…
Google ebook is HERE!!

Now you can purchase
Mirror Makeovers & Savvy Insights
on
Google ebook
Read it right off your computer!
View some of the pages!!
Be the first to write a review on Google!

No Shipping just a beautiful, colorful, uplifting book!

Take a look…
View the Book Here!!

Independent Publishers

Highlighted Title Award

Quiet Angel Publishing, LLC
6475 E. Pacific Coast Hwy #200
Long Beach, California 90803
(714) 501-1144

www.QuietAngelPublishing.com

Independent Publishers Highlighted Title Award

quietangel — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:01:32 +0000

Mirror Makeovers & Savvy Insights

Is Proud to Announce…..

THE HONOR OF BEING AWARDED

INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER

“Highlighted Title Award”

Mirror Makeovers & Savvy Insights, along with Illustrator Darren Cranford, are honored to be awardedIndependent Publisher Highlighted Title Award, February 2011!It is with great pride that we share this award with you for your continued support, encouragement and participation with our book! We could not have achieved this honor without YOU, sharing, reviewing, and spreading the word,
helping us to help others and mostly for just being our friends! A heartfelt Thank You to all of our Supporters!!

View Hightlighted Title Here

Quiet Angel Publishing, LLC

www.QuietAngelPublishing.com
6475 E. Pacific Coast Hwy #200
Long Beach, California 90803

Regina Savage

Author/Motivational Speaker
(714) 501-1144