Book Proposal

You don’t have to be tired …

  You can have

 HIGH ENERGY

by SHIRLEY LINDE

How to have more energy, less fatigue and depression, and

feel better than ever before

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

1.  You Can Feel Better. Many suffer, few are treated. Imaginary health. You don’t have to be tired .What the high Energy Program will give you.

2.    What Is Causing Your Fatigue?  Common causes of fatigue. How to determine what is causing you to be tired.  Lifestyle causes. Physical causes. Before  you start -- how to take your own case history and work with your doctor. Test for depression. What did you find? When to see your doctor.

3.       Three Things Every Tired Person Should Do.   Reduce sugar. Limit alcohol. Get rid of cigarettes.

4.      Who Says We're Well Nourished? Facts about our poor diets.

5.      The Antifatigue High Energy Eating Plan.  Why the High Energy Eating Plan works so well. How to find your own best diet. Guidelines to the High Energy Diet.

  6.    Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs -- Supplements Your Should Know About.  Tailoring your own supplement program for fighting fatigue. Ten life-changing herbs from Traditional Chinese Medicine. 

  7.    If a Sleep Problem Is making You Tired.  Sleep problems at night can give fatigue problems all day. What to do for insomnia. Apnea. Other sleep disorders and that to do for them.      

   8.    Night Work, Jet Lag, and Seasonal Affective Disorder. Working on a night shift. How to sleep better if you do shift work. Jet lag and how to avoid it. If you get tired in the winter. S.A.D. and a Sunshine Diet. 

    9.    Manage Your Stress to Manage Your Fatigue.  Get a handle on what is causing your stress. Check yourself for hidden tension. Take control. Reducing tension and coping with stress.  

 10.       Exercise -- The Other Energy Booster.  Adding exercise to the program. More exercise can mean less fatigue. What to do and when and how to do it. Tension-beaters on the job. 

11.                 Maintenance: Your High Energy Lifetime Program. Long term practice. Bonus benefits.                                   

 12.         If You Are Not Getting Results. You might have an underlying medical problem. Iron deficiency anemia. Early pregnancy and other anemias.  Other medical problems that can cause lack of energy. You might have clinical depression. Latest information on treating depression.               

13.            If You Are Taking Pills. Pill-taking patients. Schools. Sports. Energy pills and sleeping pills are not the answer. How to kick the energy and sleeping pill habits. Working with your doctor. Acupuncture and herbal medicine aids.    

 14.         Special Advice on Children and Teens.  Special situations. Special advice. 

 15.         Everyday Tips to Make the Plan Work Best for You.  Series of tips.   

For Further Help

                References to websites and organizations with further information.           
Index 

ABOUT THE HIGH ENERGY BOOK

This is a book with a plan for energy. People walk around tired, day after day, when there are many things that can help them.  High Energy will give them what they need to know for more energy, day by day.

STYLE

Dr. Linde has a good following of readers because of the many medical books she has authored or co-authored and she is known for her thorough but easy-to-read style of writing. For decades she has brought readers the very best in health information and self-help advice, in fact was one of the early pioneers for patient power in her classic Whole Health Catalogue.

High Energy will be organized in a style similar to Linde’s best-selling No More Sleepless Nights, first showing the reader how to analyze his or her own problem of fatigue, then offering various solutions. It will be comprehensive, detailed, motivating, and will have latest research findings as well as practical everyday things for the reader to do to have more energy, plus how to know when to seek medical attention. With case histories and personal stories, of course.

MARKET

Linde knows how to write a book that sells as seen in the book she co-authored with Robert Atkins, his second highest selling book, with The Charleston Program that sold more than a million copies by mail order alone, and with No More Sleepless Nights, written in 1990 and still selling well in many languages throughout the world.

She has reached millions of readers. This book will appeal universally since fatigue and lack of energy at some time is common to everyone in every culture and at most ages.  It should reach a new market … those who are sick and tired of being tired.

As an evergreen subject and should fare well in long term steady sales.

COMPETITION

Books have been written on individual topics such as seasonal affective disorder and depression and diet. But little has been written on fatigue and all the facets of it. The only recent work found -- Energy Addict -- was a superficial book of basically 100 things to do to increase energy.

There is a gap in knowledge about fatigue, and this book would fill the gap.

The High Energy Plan (or it could be called you Don’t have To Be Tired) will be much more in depth and very comprehensive. It will include diet information, vitamin supplementation advice, an exercise program, advice on sleep problems (sleep better tonight for more energy tomorrow) and other information. There will be information not in any other book on fatigue and energy … anti-fatigue herbs from Traditional Chinese Medicine being one example.

PROMOTION

Shirley Linde, well-known for her medical books, has a following of readers and has an impeccable reputation as a medical writer. She is known to many radio/tv talk show hosts as a relaxed entertaining guest and to newspaper science writers as a respected colleague.  She is known to the medical profession for her many medical books for both the profession and the public and for her coverage of medical news in such professional publications as Medical World News, Medical Tribune, International Medical News Service, and others.

Focus of promotion:

Doctors tend to tell people with fatigue that they "need to take it easy" or that fatigue goes along with aging, and that they will "just have to learn to live with it". Wrong! People do not have to live with fatigue. There is much that can be done.

You don’t have to be tired. You can increase your energy. Here’s how to have more energy, less fatigue and depression, and feel better.

The stuff of tv interviews: fatigue can be treated, but many doctors are still telling patients they have to live it, -- but they don't! We can tell people in simple terms exactly what he or she can do. For short term relief, there are demonstrations of emergency relief techniques and exercises that work well on tv

Our desire is to take this book from the usual routine self-help book to a provocative crusading book. You no longer have to be tired. Doctors should not be telling you to live with it, or to pop pills or tranquilizers. There is help.

Linde will be available for interviews. . She is willing to put time in on a media tour, to keep the publicity department notified of meetings attended or other travel for possible media coverage in the U.S. and international cities where she goes, and to cooperate in whatever other ways with the publicity department on promotion with book signings and talks locally at book events, women’s clubs, yacht clubs, etc.

She has appeared on many tv and radio shows and is relaxed and interesting on camera, is routinely invited to come back with next book. Talk show hosts have always been enthusiastic -- "You come back any time!"

Lists of magazines and newspapers where Linde's articles have appeared or where articles about her have appeared will be made available and as well as lists of the radio-tv shows that featured previous books.

She will promote the book on her website www.ShirleyLinde.com as well as on other sites and through her friends and colleagues who belong to National Association of Science Writers, American Medical Writers Association, Society of American Travel Writers and others in the media. 

There will be lists and segments in the book easily excerpted for magazine articles -- best snacks to keep you going, easy instant pick-me-ups to beat stress and fatigue, etc.

There is so much interest in depression at this time, and so much confusion and overlap between depression and fatigue that I think we would also pique the interest of those who have depression (estimated at one in five) or who are doing shows on depression.                                

LENGTH

200-250 pages.  No illustrations.

DELIVERY

8 months

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Other Books by Shirley Linde

No More Snoring, with Victor Hoffstein

The World’s Most Intimate Cruises, The Guide to Cruising in Small Ships

No More Sleepless Nights and No More Sleepless Nights Workbook, with Peter J Hauri

Insiders' Guide to the World's Most Exciting Cruises: with L Lane

The Charleston Program, with R Johnson

Dr. Atkins' Superenergy Diet, with Robert Atkins

No More Back Pain, with Alfred Bonati

201 Medical Tests You Can Do At Home

How To Beat A Bad Back

The Whole Health Catalogue

The Sleep Book, The Joy of Sleep

Now That You've Had Your Baby, with Gideon Panter

Lifegain, with R Allen

The Complete Allergy Guide, with H Rapaport

Orthotherapy, with A Michele; You Don't Have To Ache

Sickle Cell, A Complete Guide

Emergency Family First Aid Guide (ed)

High Blood Pressure, with F Finnerty

Cosmetic Surgery, What It Can Do For You

Modern Woman's Medical Dictionary

Airline Stewardess Handbook

Heart Attacks That Aren't

Medical Science in the News (ed)

Total Rehabilitation of Epileptics

The Big Ditch, Story of the Suez Canal

Response of the Nervous System to Ionizing Radiation (ed)

Science and the Public (ed

Radioactivity in Man (ed)

Directory to Holistic Medicine and Alternate Health Care Services

Windows to the World--Inside Views on Dining, Traveling and Lodging (contrib ed)

Crash Landing (ed)

Healthy Homes in a Toxic Environment, with M. Breecher

Great Voyages of the World: contributor

About the Author

SHIRLEY LINDE,  Ph.D.

        Shirley Linde is a best-selling author whose books have been translated into a dozen languages around the world. She has written for major magazines, made many appearances on radio and television, and is author of 37 books, including best-sellers No More Sleepless Nights,  Dr. Atkins' Superenergy Diet, The Whole Health Catalogue, The Charleston Program and others.

       Linde has been a significant influence within both the journalism and the medical professions in her years as a writer, having been on the executive boards and a member of committees in the National Association of Science Writers and the American Medical Writers Association and an originator of seminars to improve communication between scientists and writers, such as the National Science Foundation’s “When Scientists Meet the Press” held in Chicago and widely circulated as a booklet. She was director of public relations at Northwestern University Medical and Dental Schools in Chicago, taught at Columbia University, and served as public relations consultant to hospitals, universities, medical associations, governmental agencies and corporations. She also is a member or past member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Society of American Travel Writers, Authors Guild, International Food, Wine and Travel Writers Association and was a vice-president of the North American Travel Journalists Association.

       Linde has written in many areas, but is especially known for her medical writing.  She was a pioneer in the concept of self-help and the power of patients both in her writings for the medical profession and in her articles and books for the public. Probably best known in the campaign for patient power was her book The Whole Health Catalogue.  She contributed much to the knowledge and understanding of the public about science. Many of her stories and excerpts from her books such as The Complete Guide to Sickle Cell have been used in schools and for adult literacy classes. Her articles have appeared in many national magazines such as Readers Digest, Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping and Family Circle. Her books have had such publishers as Crown, Bantam, Harper and Row, John Wiley & Sons, NAL, and Simon & Schuster.

      Linde has received several outstanding service awards in communications, and is listed in Who's Who in America, the World Who's Who of Woman, Who's Who of  Contemporary Authors, and Foremost Women of the 20th Century. Linde is also known for her travel writing and is an author of, or contributor to, The Insiders Guide to World’s Most Exciting Cruises, The World’s Most Intimate Cruises and Great Voyages of the World and she is currently editor and owner of SmallShipCruises.com, a website with information on small ships around the world. When not traveling, she lives on the water near St. Petersburg, Florida.