SHINING BRIGHTLY by Howard Brown

 Please welcome Howard Brown author of SHINING BRIGHTLY

The author will be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter.

SHINING BRIGHTLY

by Howard Brown

 

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GENRE:  Memoir

 

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INTERVIEW:

1. What or who inspired you to start writing? In today’s world of conflict where selfishness is often celebrated as a winning strategy—I’m sharing with the world a potent antidote to that dangerous message.

 

 

2. What elements are necessary components for this genre? Honesty, accuracy and balance. In the three years I wrote and edited my memoir, I checked countless details and often found that elements of stories I wanted to tell were slightly different than I remembered them. More than once, this opened up remarkable new stories I could share. I discovered, for example, that one grandfather who served in World War II also was a regular correspondent to a small newspaper back home. That turned out to be quite an inspiring story of resiliency during the traumas of World War II, when he wound up injured in one leg and kept going with the U.S. Army in Italy and his correspondence to the local newspaper.

 

 

3. How did you come up with your idea for your book?

Shining Brightly everyday does make the world a better place.

 

 

4. What expertise did you bring to your writing? My book rests on three major areas of my life where I have spoken to groups and led workshops nationwide: Cancer survivorship (I’m a two-time survivor of stage IV cancer), mentorship and entrepreneurial spirit (I was one of the early Silicon Valley pioneers), and interfaith peacemaking (my behind-the-scenes work has helped to promote peace both in the U.S. and around the world).

 

 

5. What would you want your readers to know about you that might not be in your bio? I am a twin to my sister CJ Brown Gingras

 

 

6. As far as your writing goes, what are your future plans? Already, I’m crisscrossing the United States, in person, to speak to groups about the messages of hope and resiliency in my book. I plan to continue as a speaker, consultant, workshop leader and will continue to write both online and in a future book.

 

7. When did you first decide to submit your work? Please tell us what or who encouraged you to take this big step?In October 2019 and through Covid, we recorded via zoom 200+ meetings and I invited family, friends, mentors, camp counselors, doctors and other influential people in my life to record with me and my editor David Crumm.

 

 

8. What is the best and worst advice you ever received? Worst advice from a friend: Write a book; it’s easy.

Best advice from my editor David Crumm at Front Edge Publishing: He told me there are hundreds of steps in writing and publishing a book, so don’t get discouraged or let any one step prevent you from finishing. I thought it would take 1 year and it has taken 3

 

 

9. Do you outline your books or just start writing?

We outlined this book in our first meetings and then adapted that outline as we went.

 

 

 

10. How do you maintain your creativity?

As a 2 time stage IV cancer survivor – I am blessed, grateful and lucky to be alive. My purpose now is to motivate, educate and inspire.

 

BLURB:

 

In Shining Brightly, Silicon Valley pioneer, cancer survivor and interfaith peacemaker Howard Brown shares keys to resilience for successful entrepreneurs, patient advocates and community leaders. He shows us how to reach out through our families, our communities and around the world to form truly supportive connections and friendships. From Howard’s career as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, to his conquering metastatic stage IV cancer twice, to his compassionate outreach as a peacemaker, to his love of sports—this ultimately is not one man’s story. Shining Brightly is a story shared by countless men and women—and may wind up changing your life as well. With each true story he tells in the pages, Howard invites readers to picture how they might join him in shining more light in our world.

 

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EXCERPT:

 

Sprinkled through all the adventures in this book—some of them ordinary, heartwarming family stories and some of them so remarkable you will be tempted to call them miraculous—there are truths like this one Bubby Bertha was trying to explain that morning on the sidewalk in Worcester, Massachusetts. There are more to come, but here are four of these truths as we set out on our journey together in these pages: 

 

• Each of us has our own special light. 

 

• We shine more brightly when we share our light with others. 

 

• True resiliency—the kind that is strong enough to overcome trauma at seemingly impossible odds—      rests on letting in the light of others. 

 

• As our light circles the world, we illuminate and celebrate our diversity. 

 

I’m sharing these truths right away so that perhaps you’ll turn down the corner of this page and flip back to it from time to time. This is your book as much as it is mine, after all, and I wrote it with the intention that you will mark it up and return to its pages occasionally for inspiration. Plus, as you read through these chapters, you’ll find lots of ideas for fun and inspiring things you can do to shine your light in the world.

 

 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Howard Brown is an author, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, interfaith peacemaker, two-time stage IV cancer survivor and healthcare advocate. For more than three decades, Howard’s business innovations, leadership principles, mentoring and his resilience in beating cancer against long odds have made him a sought-after speaker and consultant for businesses, nonprofits, congregations, and community groups. In his business career, Howard was a pioneer in helping to launch a series of technology startups before he co-founded two social networks that were the first to connect religious communities around the world. He served his alma matter—Babson College, ranked by US News as the nation’s top college for entrepreneurship—as a trustee and president of Babson’s worldwide alumni network. His hard-earned wisdom about resilience after beating cancer twice has led him to become a nationally known patient advocate and “cancer whisperer” to many families. Visit Howard at ShiningBrightly.com to learn more about his ongoing work and contact him. Through that website, you also will find resources to help you shine brightly in your own corner of the world. Howard, his wife Lisa and daughter Emily currently reside in Michigan.

 

http://www.shiningbrightly.com 

 

Link to buy: 

https://www.amazon.com/Shining-Brightly-resilience-entrepreneur-interfaith/dp/1641801476/ref=sr_1_1

 

 

 

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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER CODE

 

The author will be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter.

 

http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/28e4345f4371