Being with Ron Ash with Pat Ballard and Maureen Cary

Today's Guest: 9am-Pat Ballard and 10am-Maureen Cary http://beingwithronash.wordpress.com 9am Pat Ballard For as long as I can remember, I loved "making up" my own stories. And being the oldest of six children, and next to the oldest of 25 grandchildren, I had a lot of practice spinning my yarns "on request." I learned to love romance novels after discovering author, Emilie Loring. I collected and read every book I could find by her. I knew that this was the type of books I wanted to write. My wonderful sisters, Ellen and Jerri, became weary of hearing me say I was going to "write a book," so one day they approached me with a pen and spiral notebook and said, "do it." So thanks to them, I wrote my first novella. And in doing so, I proved to myself that I could. After I decided to stop the self-destructive fad diets that I had lived on since the age of eleven, and accept myself as who I was born to be, I set about to write romance novels with Big Beautiful Heroines. But the books aren't just for plus-size women. The message is for all women to love ourselves as we are and stop trying to be something we were never meant to be. 10am Maureen Cary, Publisher Rhode Island Natural Awakenings www.RINaturalAwakenings.com Phone: 401-709-2473 Fax: 877-738-5816 Feel Good - Live Simply - Laugh More Marketing Research Results from our latest audit* confirms 1. 2 out of 3 Natural Awakenings readers purchase products or services from ads seen in Natural Awakenings Healthy Living Magazine. 2. Over 51% of Natural Awakenings readers have household incomes over 50K. 3. 73% of Natural Awakenings readers are between 25-54. 4. Natural Awakenings Healthy Living Magazine rated higher over TV, Radio, Internet and other print publications as the #1 source for health-related information. * conducted by CVC: Circulation Verification Council