Best-Selling Author Scores Again With Entertaining Book for Aging Boomers
While the nation debates how best to provide a living for seniors through Social Security, author Stanley Baldwin wants them also to have a life.
Portland, OR (PRWEB) March 19, 2005 -- Eight challenges face people as they
age, and best-selling author Stanley Baldwin addresses each in his new book, "A
Funny Thing Happened on My Way to Old Age." Subtitled, “Life Changes After 50,”
the book begins by dealing with the denial phase: “old age is a state of mind.”
Not quite! It then addresses grouchiness, fear of death, coping with change, and
threats to ones independence. One chapter explores the sense of loss that comes
as more and more friends and loved ones die. Baldwin keeps the approach humorous
and entertaining. For example, his chapter on overcoming “retirement depression”
is entitled, “What I Want To Be When I Grow Old.” The final chapter is, “I Want
To Finish Well.”
“Write what you know,” is an adage Baldwin has pressed
on other authors he has mentored over the years. Now, after recently ending a
long denial about his own aging, Baldwin has put this advice into practice. The
result is a deeply personal and highly entertaining book.
Baldwin expects
this, his 21st book, to join his four other best-selling titles, which have sold
some 300,000 copies each. “It’s just a natural,” he says. “There’s a huge
demographic out there with droves of baby boomers now becoming senior
citizens.”
With the book yet to be released (April 1), more than 300 of
the largest senior citizen ministries in the country have already requested
review copies.
One of the surprises encountered in pre-publication sales
was how often older people bought copies for their middle-aged children. It
seems they want the ‘kids’ to better understand what their folks experience. And
what lies ahead for them in just a few years.
Baldwin writes as a
committed Christian, but his low-key style has gained this book pre-publication
acceptance not only in churches but in service clubs, retirement communities,
and the society in general. The book has won endorsements from a variety of
leaders both in the United States and abroad.
Recent block-buster
best-seller author Jerry Jenkins (Left Behind) says, “Stan Baldwin was my boss
and pastor when I was a pup, and he taught me many lessons about work and
writing and life. Still at the top of his game in A Funny Thing Happened on My
Way to Old Age, he’s now mentoring me to finish well. You’ll laugh, you’ll
identify, you’ll ‘aha,’ and you’ll read it from cover to cover.”
Author
Marion Stroud of Bedford, England says, “Most of us don’t think about being over
the hill until we’re rolling briskly down the other side. Having read Stanley
Baldwin’s new book, I’m now better prepared to make the latter years of my life
the crowning years.”
"A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to Old Age"
becomes available April 1 through Barnes and Noble, Borders and other better
bookstores nationwide, as well as online from Amazon, CBD, ivpress.com, and
stanleybaldwin.com.
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/3/prweb219326.htm