Greetings from Calgary!
It's been a long time since I last logged in... as it's been a very busy year for me... a big year for life changes.... My apologies to those who may have thought I dropped off the face of the planet...
I'm back... My wife and I recently moved to the foothills near Okotoks/Black Diamond, AB. We had always been wanting to move out to the country, and get out of the big city (which was never for us), and are loving it now. We also decided about 6 months back to downsize our lives considerably and start paying more attention to the things we love most in life, being out in the country being one of them. We're more country folk than city-dwellers, that's for sure. So I changed careers... sort of semi-retiring, minus the money to do so, if that's even possible. I took some time off and finally got my book finished which I had announced my website for back in March on this forum.
Well... it's finally completed now. I decided to self-publish it just to save time and get it out to everyone sooner than what would otherwise be much later via the traditional publishing houses. So, if you're interested in Emergency Preparedness, Survival Preparations and all the many offshoot tangents related to it, check it out on Amazon in their Books category. Type the title in the Search field to go directly to it... (SURVIVING WHAT'S TO COME). Note the Table of Contents chapters for what's in it, too, as Amazon's preview functionality only allows for the first bit of the first chapter to be previewed. And in my book, that's merely the preamble, "setting the stage" for the real meat later on that's yet to come in subsequent chapters. I've done it as an inexpensive kindle e-book on Amazon, and back on my book's website, http://www.survivalpreparations.ca , you can download a PDF version of it, if preferred to the Kindle format.
Here's my book's description from Amazon. It's a serious read, perhaps not for the faint of heart, or those looking for a light read. This one's NOT for the "less is more" person, looking for a short quick read. You might say this is one for the weekend-long read in your comfy chair NOT for glancing at during breaks at work... In my humble opinion, when it comes to being prepared and survival, it's not about less is more, it's about "more is best", (i.e. if I'm ever faced with a serious crisis or disaster my family and I need to survive, I don't want to hear only the top 10 points or short version of what I need, or what to do... I'd want to know ALL I COULD...EVERYTHING, so that I can be as prepared as possible, along with contingencies for sudden surprises, too. Just remember that "the only guarantee in a survival situation is that nothing is guaranteed". It's with that in mind that I've written this book. This one's purposely rather comprehensive, and may also tread where others don't want to bother. I've spared no detail, and pulled no punches, as they say, either. It's serves as both a "reality-check" and challenge to all people anywhere who are concerned about what the future may hold for all of us.
I welcome your comments upon reading it. If any of you feel inclined to do so, as it's brand new on Amazon, I'd greatly appreciate you being one of the first to write a review of it. And by all means, if you feel it's a worthwhile read, please tell or email others about my book, too. You may refer them to Amazon or my book's online home at http://www.survivalpreparations.ca , too. I'll also be writing more books related to this topic in the months to come. I hope you enjoy it and find it beneficial. It's been a labour of love for me but I just wanted to get it out there as soon as possible. I believe the timing is very right for this kind of practical book.
“SURVIVING WHAT’S TO COME - To Prepare or Not To Prepare, That is the Question” is a particularly relevant book for our current times ---
This is an Eye-Opener & Call-to-Action book for those who don’t yet see what they may need to...
It’s a What You Need & What You Need To Do book reminding those who already believe, and informing those who may yet come to believe... that there’s wisdom in Emergency Preparedness.
The fact is, there are many people who are beginning to believe that the future won’t be quite as rosy as we’d all like it to be. They believe there’s a need for emergency preparedness versus those who don’t believe anything bad could ever happen in their own back yard, let alone on the global stage. They're sensing that something's in the works, something's brewing...and if we ignore what’s happening around us, we may ignore it to our peril...
This is NOT a typical doomsday book nor is it about the supposed end of the world as we know it. It is a very timely, highly practical, informative book that will help prepare you physically and mentally for whatever the future might bring. In the first couple chapters we look at our current global economic situation, and what’s going on around the world, and what it all might mean to us at a personal level. The rest of the book is about arming you and preparing you with what you may need to consider for various survival scenarios. Its premise is that there’s wisdom in preparing for the proverbial rainy day or storm of the century scenario, or as it might one day arise… perhaps some major global financial or other crisis, or some natural or man-made disaster. And of course, for the latter, there could be scores of different less serious to very serious calamitous scenarios.
It offers a wealth of highly practical survival preparation advice. It recommends definitive actions that can be taken to ensure that you and your loved ones can be amply prepared to survive just about any natural or man-made crisis or disaster that might ever, one day, befall us.
If you fancy yourself an aware and discerning person, then this is a “must-read” you’ll greatly benefit from. Or if you're a little rusty on it, or emergency preparedness or survival preparations is all new to you and you know you've got lots to learn, then this will give you a great start and enable you to skip some years of learning the long and hard way, too.
Best Regards,
Daryl Stratichuk
Daryl,
Are you going to hang around and participant on the Forum or just flog your book and run away?? You may find it easier to present your book to the folks that participate here if you also post and get into discussions on the Forum. Post your opinions on topics you may have some knowledge in and share. Failing that, you may find that folks do not warm up to your book.
Just my opinion,
Mountainman.
Daryl,
Are you going to hang around and participant on the Forum or just flog your book and run away?? You may find it easier to present your book to the folks that participate here if you also post and get into discussions on the Forum. Post your opinions on topics you may have some knowledge in and share. Failing that, you may find that folks do not warm up to your book.Just my opinion,
Mountainman.
Hit the nail on the head with this one! Agreed!
Without revealing too much, there is something in the works that will address this issue.
To those with all the seemingly hostile comments... i.e. AlbertaPrepper, gc_mountainman, and WildernessReturn... Guys... relax yourselves... What's with all the presumption? Nothing better to say? If this is a problem for you guys I have far more supportive members at other similar forums I can communicate with. I'm rather surprised by all this...
Firstly, I assumed that like-minded people on this forum would indeed be interested in a book like this, and that this is the perfect place to share this kind of information... so that's why I posted here. Sorry for some of you that I don't live on the forums as you must obviously have enough time to do so. I do what I can and as mentioned, this past year has been a year of transition for us, for which I'm not about to go into personal details about. I[m glad to be back now... or at least I thought I was...
Secondly, I temporarily took the book's website offline as I'm in the midst of making a few mods on it, JUST AS THE MESSAGE CLEARLY STATES on the site. I'll have it back up shortly. I'm doing all the work myself. Sorry that's not good enough for you, AlbertaPrepper. And, yes, the pdf version would be available on my site as soon as it's back up, but as already mentioned, in the original post, the Kindle version of the book IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON AMAZON, if you simply type in the title in the search field. If you don't have a Kindle, you can download the free Kindle for PC software to view any Kindle formatted books.
And gc_mountainman and WildernessReturn... give me a chance guys... I'm of course mentioning my book but do plan to participate in the forums when and as I have time. But to assume the contrary... well... I'm a little surprised at the lack of encouragement from you guys with the first replies. I've posted on other forums elsewhere and have received nothing but supportive comments. Pehaps it's a very different crowd here.
And Denob, I think I might like to know, but I haven't got the foggiest as to what you mean by what you're saying...
Anyway... to those who are more interested in what my book might actually be about and how it might help them or shed some new information about certain topics... I invite you to read it. Unlike some members, I may not have time to be on the forum everyday, but I'll be around. I welcome any direct emails, too.
Have a great day!
Sorry if you feel picked on...
I guess I misunderstood your intentions...
Since joining in February, you have made a total of 8 posts...ALL of which promote your website and/or book.
This is a site intended to bring like minded people together to interact and share knowledge...not provide free advertising.
But I guess I misunderstood the stats.
TO AlbertaPrepper:
With all due respect and most sincerely... I'm going to presume that NOT ALL members on this forum have quite the attitude that you do. I took my book site offline to fix a minor problem. So it will be down for a bit and then I'll have it back up. As I said, sorry about that.
AND... I NEVER said that book was free. Perhaps you should read my first post again.
So, NOTHING IS MISLEADING AT ALL.
And my apologies to the other members for this back and forth discourse when we all could be talking about something better and more beneficial for all of us. As I said, I'm a bit taken aback by the first replies to my post. I posted on some other forums and had nothing but great comments. I hope I will be able to earn your respect and whatever... but this has been a little surprising, to say the least.
Whoever's the moderator for this forum... I hope this isn't the norm here.
May you all have a great day.
Quote dsnexus..
" buddy that was definitely not a hostile attack by anybody at all! "
CAN YOU SAY OBSERVATIONS!!! HHHmmmmmmm.
ps. did not read the rather long winded tirade as well.
GC, when is your book going to be available on Amazon? Since you are a long time contributing member here, that does not Tirade and helps out, I am wondering!
Quote Denob..
"This is a site intended to bring like minded people together to interact and share knowledge...not provide free advertising.
But I guess I misunderstood the stats."
Nope.. you guessed it right buddy! Hit the nail on the head here as well.
boohoo.. is my observation as well...
see ya.. no more replies to this either, so little time for poopoo anymore.
Just to clarify due to all the reply comments that seemed to have taken my mention of my book FAR, FAR AWAY from what was intended...
(i.e how to waste an hour on this forum replying to people's presumptions and misunderstandings)
and to answer WildernessReturn's question...
AS I SAID IN THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE, Yes, it is available on Amazon already as a Kindle ebook, despite what some have been saying to the contrary.
And yes, it will be available as a pdf formatted ebook on the book's website, shortly. As mentioned already, I took the the site down temporarily to update a few things. It will be back up soon.
Have a great day everyone. I'm going to try to now.
WildE,
Could be sometime yet, before you see my book on Amazon. Minor formatting conversion issue.
dsnexus,
It would seem my comment opened a flood gate, not my intention. Having said that, I was curious with you return. If you read your original posts from this Spring you will find my initial comments were supportive to you and your book. I, encouraged you then and wonder now if you are interested in participating on this Forum. Someone who has enough ideas to write a book, has enough knowledge to be a positive influence on the Forum. If one only wants to sell their knowledge, that is fine - as long as that is made perfectly clear at the outset. My understanding of this Forum and many others is the "free" exchange of ideas, opinions and occasionally criticisms. For those new to prepping, these dialogues allow them to learn and when they feel strong enough about a subject to post a comment. Without the posts and replies this Forum would not be doing its job.
So, welcome back. I hope to read your posts on other threads.
Mountainman.
Congratulations on the book. I have not clicked the link, nor do I know your history here, but since you can write a book on your knowledge, I hope you'd have something useful to contribute to the forum. Good for you and I hope to see you around promoting your wisdom (and not so much the pocketbook).
There is a new link coming up that seems like it will promote preppers who have businesses, that looks awesome!! Maybe you're just a little early with your idea of self promotion here.
Good luck and hopefully you can find the time to share your thoughts more with us.
If your home library contains more volumes about survival-related topics than your local public library, you might be a prepper.
Mountainman --- writing a book about prepping was a labour of love for me... a passion to share what little I may know. So, I'll surely be participating.
As to whoever was having the formatting conversion issues with getting their book on Amazon, send me a PM sometime and I'll share some of my experiences and numerous challenges that I had. Despite what some make of a very easy simple conversion process, I found it to be just the opposite. But it all depends upon what kind of content you have in your book and whether its formatting is simple or complex. For most fiction books, it would be fairly simple. However, as I discovered, for a non-fiction book, with perhaps numerous lists, tables, references, endnotes or footnotes, and external links, it can be a whole different matter. I spent a good few weeks in hell till I finally figured out how to "manually" get around the issues I was having with formatting. Anyway... that's for another post and discussion if anyone's interested. Just drop me a line and I'll offer my two cents.
Faraday, I'm new again to this forum... let me know what that link is for preppers wanting to promote their businesses. I have a background in marketing and creative design, too, so I can perhaps offer some suggestions.
Have a great day!
How do I get the book
Preparedness is like a condom , I've rather have it and not need it, rather than need it and not have it
Duffmanprepper...
Go to Amazon.com and select the books category. Then simply type in the title, Surviving What's To Come, in the search field. This will take you directly to it. I welcome your feedback on it. I hope you find it a beneficial read. Have a nice day!
dsnexus... I think that the new member businesses section is listed on the Board Index. So Portal>>Board Index...
"It's better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret"