NEWS RELEASE:
April 9, 2010
Activist
will give 40% of net book sales to early buyers of
The Kindness Test
(Read an excerpt from the book.)
[Erie
PA] After
author
Andrea Reynolds assisted
Toronto police in the apprehension and identification of a
serial burglar after a home invasion in 1997 at her
Author's Bed and Breakfast,
her fearlessness and courage were unappreciated. She was
not only treated with contempt by her neighbors, the very
people whose homes she protected from potential loss, but
received death threats from prison for four
months.
Interview published in the Quill & Quire supplement for
The Canadian Bookseller Association Convention
Unable
to protect her guests from harm, she closed her
B
& B, the business she made a reality after years of
planning and saving. She gave away everything she owned and
moved to Erie County, PA to hide for seven years to stay
safe. Enduring hostility and intimidation, and more threats
from her new neighbors - she explains it as
blame-the-victim and mob mentalities - it took her three
years to recover emotionally from the initial trauma, but
she still hasn't recovered financially.
Many she has encountered - friends, neighbors, realtors,
physicians, dentists, veterinarians, landlords, car
dealers, churches - equated her bravery as a good citizen
and subsequent hiding with the acts of the criminal she
helped imprison. She returned to Erie to act as her
90-year-old father's patient advocate, and is still treated
with suspicion, rejection and mean-spiritedness.
A creative thinker and entrepreneur, she closed subsequent
service businesses - author-expert marketing, speaker
advocacy, and even a concierge/home staging service -
because of the bullying and harassment by prospective
clients who acted as though Reynolds owed them free
services, perhaps to atone for her "sins" as a
target of
crime.
Unable to find paying work, invitations to housesit for
free, and savings depleted, Reynolds is selling her story
in book form,
The Kindness Test.
Not as a tell-all, but a
positive self-development book,
showing readers specifically how being kind to others can
actually benefit them in creative ways. Her intent is to
show how the companies and individuals she encountered
would have benefited, had each one instead shown her
kindness and generosity of spirit. What none of those
hurtful, rejecting people understood was that
a reward awaited them.
Reynolds hopes to create a buzz and raise money for her
book,
The Kindness Test,
by promising to share 40% of the profits. True to her
philosophy early buyers of the first
2000 copies that
are pre-sold will receive a copy of
The Kindness Test for
each unit purchased, his/her name and location in
the
Acknowledgments,
and "patrons" should receive back all their original
investment of
$20,
and possibly have it doubled or tripled. While not a
fortune...
how many authors do you know who offer to reward their
readers with cash dividends?
Some of the money raised will cover Reynolds' living
expenses so she can write and promote the book without
worrying about the rent. She also intends to share
10% of the profits with
selected charities,
and hopes to sell the film rights.
Click on graphic to enlarge
Cover Design: Jacqueline
Miller,
www.kenshinkyocreations.com
2000
pre-publication copies (units) may be purchased until May
30, 2010. The 60-year old Reynolds hopes to start writing
full-time May 31. Publication is scheduled for December
2010. Read an
excerpt: http://www.AndreaReynolds.com/benefactor.html
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Contact information for editors, producers, reporters, and
journalists:
Web site: http://www.AndreaReynolds.com
Email:
crisiswriter@gmail.com
Twitter: @ReynoldsIntl
Phone: (814) 431-9278
See Andrea's List of Interviews where she has
appeared on radio, TV and in the press.
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Andrea Reynolds, Suite 647,
2501 West 12th Street, Erie PA 16505
