Hi, everyone -

We hit a major milestone on Blasted by Adversity: the Making of a Wounded Warrior: We sent the book manuscript to our publisher December 30th and are now working with the Inkshares editor. If all goes well, we’ll have a book by May 8th. 

To once again thank you for making this book possible, we will begin sharing excerpts. These are “hot off the press,” so you’ll be the first to read them. Feel free to share with your friends on social media or email (and be sure to take credit for helping us write it!). 

Book excerpt #1, Calling Home: 

At Baghdad ER, the tents they took me to after the blast, they asked me if I wanted to call home and I told them no, I was doing fine. I wasn’t up to calling. The medics were kind of insistent, "Do it for your mom or whoever cares about you. You may not make it. We're not saying you're going to die, but people die from these kinds of wounds all the time." Well, when you put it that way… 

Regards, 

 Luke Murphy - www.LukeMurphy101.com 

Julie Strauss Bettinger - www.JulieBettinger.com 

Luke is returning from Texas this week after his 32nd surgery since the blast. He's doing well, but while he was away, we received some bad news that one of our major backers didn't mean to give quite as much as her credit card was charged. So we are re-launching the crowd-funding effort. We appreciate your past support and hope you will help spread the word. We've completed about 10 chapters and this story just keeps getting better and better. With funding, we can have this book out next spring. Thank you for helping Luke Murphy!

Our best,

Julie Strauss Bettinger, www.JulieBettinger.com

for

Luke Murphy, www.LukeMurphy101.com