About this project
I want to self publish my first yoga memoir, Fishing on Facebook: A Writing Yoga Memoir, and sell it on Amazon.com, where it will be listed with my yoga books. My manuscript is complete except for the Afterword and one more round of editing. The funds will be used to create a front and back cover, formatting, and other expenses associated with publishing. Any additional funds will go for a new computer -- I am working on a slow, ancient laptop with a sticky keyboard.Project Summary Fishing on Facebook: A Writing Yoga Memoir.
Like millions of other men and women, renowned author and yoga teacher Suza Francina is a Facebook user. One evening she received a friend request from an Adam Johnson. Having known him years before, she accepted. And so began a roller-coaster journey of romance and intrigue.
Fishing on Facebook is the revealing recounting of that journey, drawn from Francina's practice of daily journal writing. “When I write, I feel freedom coming. The circumstances of my life have not changed, but the doors of perception open. In this way, writing and yoga are tools for ‘peeling the onion.’ Both practices hold the potential to reveal a core of truth often hidden deep inside us. And although keeping a journal might not keep us from falling over the edge, it can help us land in a more honest place.”
Based on Adam's impressive Facebook persona and their many common interests, the Facebook friendship with Adam evolved quickly into dating. Francina discovered that it doesn't matter how old you are, or whether you are a yoga teacher or a pole dancer -- the illusion of love is universal and ageless. “Dating when you are sixty,” she declares, is virtually identical to dating when you’re sixteen.”
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I want to direct people to Suza Francina's engaging, honest story about a dating saga many women can relate to. With class and seriousness, but humor too, Suza exposes the experiences of dating at mid life and older, and the mistakes a woman makes when presented with charm that appears and disappears. One aim is to help women hold men accountable. --Nancy Gross, editor, publisher, The Bubble.
I think its great that you are going public with this, to warn other women but also so he can see what he looks like. No sense of bitterness or vengeance seeps into the story, so it does have this “objective” view to it. --Richard Laubly, Paris, France
All fourteen chapters are posted on my blog: http://suzaji.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/writing-yoga-fishing-on-facebook/
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A sincere thank you, a big smile and warm hug when I see you. If you don't live in Ojai, I will hug my dogs and cats in your honor. Plus an autographed copy of Fishing on Facebook or a copy of your choice of one of my previous books.
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A sincere thank you, a big smile and warm hug when I see you. If you don't live in Ojai, I will hug my dogs and cats in your honor. Plus two autographed copies of Fishing on Facebook or a copy of your choice of two of my previous books.
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All of the above plus two autographed copies of Fishing on Facebook and/or a copy of your choice of two of my yoga books (or any combination of up to four books). Plus, if you live in Ojai (or when you visit Ojai) I will come to your location and give you a private one-hour yoga lesson.
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All of the above plus, if you live in Ojai (or when you visit Ojai) I will come to your location and give you and up to ten family members or friends a two-hour yoga lesson (or three individual one-hour private sessions). The date for this Reward is anytime in 2012, that works for everyone involved.
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All of the above plus, if you live in Ojai (or when you visit Ojai) I will come to your location and give you and up to fifteen family members or friends a three-hour yoga lesson (or four individual one-hour private sessions). The date for this Reward is anytime in 2012, that works for everyone involved.
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SUZA FRANCINA, the former mayor of Ojai, California, is a writer, animal advocate and Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor. She has taught yoga since 1972 and is a pioneer in the field of teaching yoga to seniors. Her first book, Yoga for People Over 50, was published in 1977. She is author of The New Yoga for People Over 50 (Health Communications, Inc., 1997); Yoga and the Wisdom of Menopause (HCI, 2003); and The New Yoga for Healthy Aging (HCI 2007). She is currently completing the first in a series of Ojai yoga memoirs, Fishing on Facebook: A Writing Yoga Memoir.
