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DYING TO LIVE Wins Award, Amy Susan Crohn Featured at Book Expo America

Amy Susan Crohn is honored to receive The Next Generation Indie Book Award as a finalist in the Memoir (Overcoming Adversity/Tragedy/Challenges) category for her debut book, DYING TO LIVE, Running backwards through cancer, Lupus and chronic illness. The award is given by Indies Unlimited, an organization that celebrates independent authors “whose body of work is not obligated to a single large publishing company.” Since it’s launch, DYING TO LIVE has been an inspiration to others who recognize their own experiences within the pages, not only with their personal childhood maltreatment and chronic disease, but how the medical community worked with (or against) them. ……it’s a story of what did happen (and obviously can again) within our medical community … what goes wrong and what goes right when you’re faced with catastrophic illnesses. AND, it ends with Amy’s current quest of learning how what happens to you as you are growing up can have a profound impact on your overall health. Did you know that studies that provide evidence that there IS a link from adverse childhood experiences (ACE) to later negative …

Amy Susan Crohn Hyde Park, New York Presentation and Book Signing Event

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“I Told You I Was Sick” A story of discovery and growth through catastrophic illness The Hyde Park Free Library in Hyde Park, New York will host a presentation and book signing Thursday, April 24, 2014, at 7pmET. Amy Susan Crohn will appear to give the presentation, “I Told You I Was Sick!” based on her recently released book, DYING TO LIVE: Running backwards through cancer, Lupus, and chronic illness. Her event is combined with a book signing, as well as a tour of the Memorial Exhibition of the art of her brother Steve Crohn. Recently deceased and the subject of a New York Magazine feature, Steve Crohn is well-known for his post war, modernist paintings in the abstract style. The Memorial Exhibition runs through April 30th. Please RSVP Here Amy Susan Crohn was a 36-year-old wife and mother of two beautiful boys, one an adopted foster child, when she was struck with the reality of, not only stage IV cancer, but also a second life threatening disease, Lupus. In DYING TO LIVE Amy relates her personal and up close journey through …

Dying to Live FREE Kindle Giveaway January 9-11

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The best things in life are FREE! One of the best books describing the survival of an abnormal childhood and two simultaneous life threatening diseases is available for FREE on Amazon Kindle January 9-11, 2014. Released in June, 2013 this 5 star rated book is one to read and read again! Amy Susan Crohn’s DYING TO LIVE: Running backwards through cancer,Lupus, and chronic illness documents the events in the life of a happy mother and wife whose experience turned her world upside down. Realizing that her childhood was anything but normal, Amy discovered the link between her maltreatment as a child and her later bouts with devastating disease. How she overcomes and thrives as she puts the pieces of her life back together is not only heartwarming, but contains many valuable lessons. During her “down time” the author was able to connect with the ACE Study which validated the “why” of her near death diseases and helped her recover with the help of some of the best medical professionals in the country. Descended from a …

Dying to Live: Running Backwards through Cancer, Lupus, and Chronic Illness, Amy Susan Crohn, ImaginePublicity

Amy Susan Crohn and DYING TO LIVE Featured on Indies Unlimited

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Independent author, Amy Susan Crohn, and her book, DYING TO LIVE: Running backwards through cancer, Lupus, and chronic illness is the featured book on the website, Indies Unlimited. Indies Unlimited is a platform for engagement between indie authors and their readers, and much more. Indies Unlimited’s website contains a treasure chest of information, not only about books, publishing and book marketing, but also the good, bad and ugly of the ever evolving industry pointing authors and readers to helpful sites, and exposing those who aren’t so helpful. Monday, September 30, DYING TO LIVE will be discovered by independent readers looking for a memoir with long lasting value. DYING TO LIVE is not only the author’s story, but the reality of millions who suffer from chronic illness brought on by childhood maltreatment, abuse or neglect. Indie Unlimited readers will walk through Amy’s childhood, and adulthood, “running backwards” through her experiences and ending with valuable solutions. Since it’s launch, DYING TO LIVE has been an inspiration to others who recognize their own experiences within the pages, not only with their …

Dying to Live book cover, author Amy Susan Crohn

Your Health is Wealth with Dr. Akoury: Cancer, Up Close and Personal

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Your Health is Wealth with Dr. Akoury Monday-Wednesday-Friday at 12:30pm on WFXB FOX TV Special guests: Amy Susan Crohn and Al Sanchez Cancer strikes a chord of fear in the best of us, even the word is hard to say openly in most circles. It’s a personal relationship with the disease, its ravages, and its outcome that are affecting millions every year. Amy Susan Crohn was a 36 years old wife and mother of two beautiful boys, one an adopted foster child, when she was struck with the reality of, not only stage IV cancer, but also a second life threatening disease, Lupus. In her recently released book, Dying to Live: Running backwards through cancer, Lupus, and chronic illness, Amy relates her personal and up close journey through her medical emergencies and near death experience, as well as the connection of her illness to her dysfunctional family and childhood. While recuperating Amy used her down time to research the subject of childhood maltreatment and its effect on adults with chronic illness. She discovered the Adverse Childhood …