Welcome to Issue 89 of the SUPERIOR BOOK PRODUCTIONS newsletter!
Happy Autumn, Everyone!
It will be a busy one for me since I have several author events this fall. Thankfully, the pandemic has lessened to the point where I can go out and see people again, even if face masks and plastic screens must still be used.
Friday, September 24, at 7 p.m. Eastern, join me for “An Evening with Tyler Tichelaar” at the Federated Women’s Clubhouse in Marquette, Michigan where I will read from and talk about my books, and of course, sign them. This is one of numerous book events that weekend sponsored by the AAUW and Friends of the Peter White Public Library.
Then on Saturday, October 9 from 11-7 p.m. Eastern, I’ll be taking part in U.P. Authors Day—a gathering of twenty Upper Michigan Authors at Campfire Coworks in Downtown Marquette in the Masonic Building. The full list of authors attending follows:
- Larry Buege (Marquette), author of Chogan: Native American Series
- Michael Carrier (Grand Rapids), author of Murder on Sugar Island / Jack Handler Series
- Mikel Classen (Sault Ste. Marie), author of Points North: Discover Hidden Campgrounds, Natural Wonders, and Waterways of the Upper Peninsula
- Elizabeth Fust (Marquette), author of Wooly and the Good Shepherd
- Brad Gischia (Ishpeming), author of Professor Cryptid’s Encyclopedia of Legendary Creatures
- Carole Lynn Hare (Manistique), author of The Legend of Kitch-iti-kipi
- Richard Hill (Sault Ste. Marie), author of West of the River, North of the Bridge
- Sharon Kennedy (Brimley), author of Life in a Tin Can and The SideRoad Kids
- Anne Miller (Caspian), author of The Last Photograph
- Nikki Mitchell (Iron River), author of Eleanor Mason’s Literary Adventures
- Eric Paad (Rapid River), Founder and President of The Caregiver Incentive Project
- Dorothy Paad (Rapid River), author of Dance Your Dance, Sing Your Song
- Gretchen Preston (Marquette), author of The Valley Cats Series
- Christine Saari (Marquette), author of Blossoms in the Dark of Winter
- Nancy Seminoff (Marquette), president of Literacy Legacy Fund of Michigan, will be featuring antiquarian & vintage books for sale
- Tyler R. Tichelaar (Marquette), author of Haunted Marquette and Kawbawgam
- Kath Usitalo (Naubinway), author of Secret Upper Peninsula: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
October 14 at 7 p.m. Eastern, I’ll be doing a Zoom presentation for the Crystal Falls, Michigan, public library as part of the UP Notable Books series, where I’ll be discussing my book Kawbawgam: The Chief, the Legend, the Man, which was named a 2021 UP Notable Book.
December 3-5, you’ll find me at the TV6 Christmas Craft Show at the Superior Dome in Marquette, Michigan, where I’ll be selling and signing my books all weekend.
I hope to see you virtually or in person at one of these events.
In the meantime, I have some great books below for you to read, ranging from ways to improve your business to healing your life or just escaping with some great fiction.
Finally, I’m often asked who my favorite author is. Well, it’s Anthony Trollope, Victorian novelist and author of more than forty wonderful novels plus several nonfiction books. This month’s book quote is from him.
Enjoy and stay healthy!
Tyler Tichelaar
This Month’s Great Book Quote:
“This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.”
— Anthony Trollope
Teresa Nickell’s The Girl in Your Wallet is the second and updated edition of her powerful memoir and personal development book. Teresa has written a book of vulnerability and courage. The title references a photo of herself that Teresa carries in her wallet. She describes this photo as:
“I’m about four years old, wearing a pretty dress and a bow in my hair. The black-and-white photo, tattered and worn, is very old. I carry it with me to remind myself to show compassion to my younger self. She didn’t deserve what happened to her, nor did she understand it. What she went through should never have happened. What she should have had eluded her. She was confused, scared, and just wanted to be held. None of those things were available to her. She lived in a world where children were unseen, unheard, and didn’t do much of anything right.”
Now, well into her fifties, Teresa finds that her childhood self is still very much a part of her life and needs to be comforted. “I loved her. I hated her. I was her.” Drawing upon trauma therapy, Teresa continually reminds the child that she will take care of her, and that she matters, but also that she’s not in charge anymore—her wiser, adult self is.
To read more, visit The Girl in Your Wallet.
Ron Collier’s new book Profit Is an Attitude: The Strategies You Need to Optimize Profits is a tour de force statement that every business owner needs to hear—in short, if you want to be in business, you have to want to make a profit. That may seem like common sense, but too often businesses fail because owners don’t focus on increasing their profit or even tracking whether or not they are making one. As Collier states, most businesses are stuck behind a growth wall and need to accept that they have to do the work to get over that wall. Without making a profit, rarely will a business continue, so Collier, himself a successful entrepreneur and business management and sales consultant, has written this book to demonstrate how to run a profitable business.
Collier’s experience and tell-it-like-it-is style is refreshing. Having read many business books myself, I appreciated how he got straight to the heart of his argument. Collier begins by pointing out that the business owner wears three hats: owner, manager, and coworker, especially in the beginning. Unfortunately, the business can’t grow if the owner is too busy being the coworker or even the manager. A business succeeds when the owner finds others to be coworkers and managers for the business so the owner can focus on being the entrepreneur.
To read more, visit Profit Is an Attitude.
Healing You With Love is a new book by mom, wife, energy practitioner, and survivor of life Jodi Suboor. It is part-memoir and part personal development book. In it, Jodi shares her personal story of growing up, and how, following her parents’ divorce, she felt unloved and like she had to do whatever she could to please others while letting her own needs be ignored.
This book is more than a memoir, however. Jodi reveals the deepest hurts of her heart and soul, honestly exploring the pain life can bring us and how that pain too often leads to making bad decisions for coping with it. For Jodi, those bad decisions often included relationships with men who took advantage of her. Fortunately, Jodi stayed strong and learned from each experience, including how not to treat others since she didn’t like how she was treated.
To add to her struggle, Jodi experienced not one, but two traumatic car accidents that nearly killed her and forced her to learn a lot about the process of healing both physically and emotionally. Yet every difficult experience life threw at her was only preparing her for the next, often more horrific experience. Or perhaps the next gift in her life, because eventually, Jodi came to realize the Universe was not letting things happen “to” her but “for” her.
To read more, visit Healing You With Love.
James Charles Harwood’s new novel Julia Island is a rollickingly funny novel with some serious undertones that takes the myth of Hiawatha, along with Native American stereotypes, quantum physics, and recent American history, and mixes them all together to create an epic tale worthy of both Longfellow and Kurt Vonnegut.
Harwood thinly disguises many places in Upper Michigan and other locations in the novel, ranging from New York to California and Afghanistan. Readers will enjoy identifying these locations, all treated fictionally. There are even some thinly disguised celebrities who make cameo appearances.
At the heart of the novel is The Chippewa Club, just north of the town of Joliette, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Here in the mid-twentieth century, a young female club member fell in love with a mysterious Ojibwa man who was never seen again. The fruit of this union was young Hiawatha, who grows up at the club, an idyllic wilderness setting where he is able to display the skills and know-how of his Ojibwa ancestors, become a hero to the young white club members, and eventually win the love of a young maiden from Chicago, daughter of wealthy environmentalists. The result is an epic wooing and a colorful wedding that skillfully play off of Longfellow’s original.
To read more, visit Julia Island.
Put Your Dreams to Work is a testament to the power of having a dream, visualizing it, and manifesting it. Annabel Chotzen, international speaker, corporate trainer, and business consultant, shares in these pages her fascinating personal stories and those of friends and family members whom she has seen firsthand make their dreams become their realities. Even better, she shares the strategies they used to make it happen.
Annabel engages her reader from the opening pages by telling the dramatic story of a young Jewish man in Nazi Germany named Walter who had a dream to come to America. In Walter’s story and that of many others, the power of visualization is revealed. Walter escaped Nazi Germany by envisioning how he would behave when he reached the border and how his interaction with the border guard would be positive.
Other stories focus on the power of taking action. For example, Annabel, her parents, and siblings used to live in the Seattle area, but one day they took a trip to Hawaii that led to them fulfilling her father’s dream of moving there.
To read more, visit Put Your Dreams to Work.
Registered dietitian and certified life coach Karie Cassell offers readers a new perspective on weight loss in her new book The Domino Diet: How to Heal from the Inside Out. She advocates for a more informed perspective on weight loss and overall health that is less focused on calories and dieting and more focused on the big picture of healing yourself on several levels. Rather than succumbing to the effects of yo-yo dieting where you lose a few pounds, then gain it back, then try again, Cassell recommends using her Domino Diet Formula, which helps you adjust several areas of your life. When all those areas are cared for, they will fall into place like a domino effect.
As Karie explains, the reason dieting often doesn’t work is that when we release weight, the subconscious may try to find it again, leading to inevitable plateaus and little success from yo-yo diets. When we trade the yo-yos for dominos, however, we will be far more successful. We will begin healing from the inside out, releasing conditions and diagnoses to enjoy improved health. As Karie reminds us, in as little as 120 days, we can renew at an optimal cellular level. The Domino Diet Formula will allow you to release what ails you to create a newer, healthier you.
To read more, visit The Domino Diet.
