Essays Wanted

Guidelines for a Different Journey: Personal Stories for Parents by Adults with Disabilities is a new book that Stan Klein and John Kemp are co-editing. For this book, adults who have grown up with disabilities and/or health care needs are invited to write short essays for parents of children with disabilities and/or health care needs. In their essays, authors are asked to write an essay that they wish their own parents had read or been told while they were growing up.

Here are specific guidelines for essays:

1. Please write an essay of about 1500 words, or less. Add a biography of about 150 words, or less, that would follow the essay in the book. At the end of the essay, please write your mailing address, telephone number, fax number, and Email address.

2. Please submit your essay as an attachment in Microsoft Word to an Email or paste your essay into the body of your Email. Send Email to: stan@disabilitiesbooks.com

3. If you submit your essay by regular mail, please double space the text. If at all possible, please also submit the essay on a disk as well. Please label each page of your printed essay and the disk with your name and address. Please send the printed copy and disk to:

Stanley D. Klein, Ph.D
DisABILITIESBOOKS, Inc.
P.O. Box 47071
Brookline, MA 02447-0715.

4. Deadline: All essays are to be received by February 15, 2003.

Authors of essays accepted for inclusion in the book will receive $125 for the right to include their essay.