Pakistan and Haiti books update
Posted by Ethan Casey on August 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Dear friends,
After a too-busy winter and spring, I’ve been enjoying the summer at home in Seattle. This message is a brief interim update on my books and related travel. I plan to send out one more update before I leave for Haiti on August 24.
If you’ve read my new book Overtaken By Events: A Pakistan Road Trip, please do me a favor by posting a comment about it on this Web page:
http://www.ethancasey.com/2010/06/have-you-read-overtaken-by-events/
Word of mouth is important to selling books. You can help me do that with this simple step, and by posting about the book on Facebook and Twitter, telling your friends about it verbally and by email, etc.
If you haven’t yet bought Overtaken By Events but have been meaning to, please do, from one of these two pages:
http://www.ethancasey.com/books/
http://www.ethancasey.com/books/overtaken-by-events/
In addition to hopefully being entertaining and edifying to you, your purchases help me sustain my work, and I donate part of all proceeds to nonprofits doing important work in Pakistan and Haiti. Purchases made during August will help support relief to victims of the flooding in northwest Pakistan.
As many of you know, I’ve visited Haiti many times since 1982 and was there most recently briefly this March. The horrific January 12 earthquake has compelled me to spend this summer and fall writing a long-planned book on Haiti. I’m traveling to Haiti for three weeks starting August 24, and will be finalizing the book after that and publishing it next spring. The title will be Bearing the Bruise: A Lifetime in Haiti.
I’m publishing Bearing the Bruise the same way I published Overtaken By Events: independently. (If you want to know why, please read http://www.ethancasey.com/what-i-do-and-why/.) You can support that project by pre-purchasing a copy, which I’ll send to you with thanks as soon as it’s published. To cover publishing costs, I need to pre-sell several hundred copies. Please help me do that by pre-purchasing your copy from this page:
http://www.ethancasey.com/books/bearing-the-bruise/
Finally for now, I invite you to visit and browse my new website, www.ethancasey.com. I’ll continue to post comments and updates there on both Pakistan and Haiti, as well as short reviews of books and articles I read and recommend. My travel calendar is also there. I have a full speaking schedule around North America throughout the fall and am hoping to visit Pakistan to launch Overtaken By Events there in February.
Join my Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/ethancaseyfans
and follow me on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/ethancasey
More soon,
Ethan
