15 June 2015

A Wonderful Time to be had once more...


Book Signing, Monday, June 22nd from 11 A.M. to 2 P.M. at Kimmie's <3 Knick <3 Knack <3 Shack in Historic Gardener's Basin at 800 N. New Hampshire Ave., Atlantic City.

Bring a friend for this Second Annual Book Signing of "All Drinking Aside" by Jim Anders.

When you purchase a signed copy, you will wander through the many mazes of his autobiography and walk away knowing more about yourself than its author, more about alcoholic insanity than you might at first be willing to admit or acknowledge.
Rightly, "All Drinking Aside" is less an Autobiographical Fiction, as its cover states, than a Biography of Addiction whose fictional characters, flies-on-the-wall, if you will, reveal the truths of alcoholic insanity you may have once thought impossible to capture.
Walk away with the broken pieces of self reassembled in that strange human glue called recovery.

Don't miss Kimmie's <3 Knick <3 Knack <3 Shack! Kimmie's <3 Knick <3 Knack <3 Shack is the Biggest Little Knick Knack Shack in this or any other Universe! Mark your calendar now. Ready. Set. GO!

http://alldrinkingaside.blogspot.com/

02 June 2015

Twitter, Twitter, Apple Fritter


Sandwiched between the Covers of The Sober World magazine's June edition is my Reality Sandwich, "This Sober Day":

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vxwh1yqkf8760q4/SW_Jun2015_issue.pdf?dl=0

27 February 2015

I Picked Up on Impulse!

Sifting through the stacks of new books at the library (including mine), I picked up a copy of "The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification." I picked it up on impulse. In the beginning pages it states that we "prize immediate rewards and ignore future costs."
Sounds like my entire addiction to alcohol. Times thirty (years).
But I'm reading this book by Paul Roberts through the eyes of recovery. My reflex now is nearly automatically in the direction of recovery.
The right impulse.
Feel my journey to now.
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02 February 2015

NEW! "Empathy" Review:

 *****Consciousness Raised, February 1, 2015
By Jim Anders, Author of "All Drinking Aside"
This review is from: Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It (Kindle Edition)
Reading “Empathy” by Roman Krznaric left me hungry… for more empathy. There are those who are highly empathic and those who suffer an empathy deficit. As an alcoholic in recovery, I understand that becoming more empathic will facilitate my healing. Mr. Krznaric is scholarly in his portrayal of the importance of cultural inheritance and the ability of the brain to learn empathy. On a personal level, I appreciated his counterintuitive remarks regarding the sometimes divisive dangers of “we” as a pronoun.
My yearning for more empathy is sustained throughout the book. From “empathic immersion” to “emotional fatigue,” the full range of his subject is explored.
The closing chapters are a definite call to action and consciousness raising. Krznaric’s exploration of increasing empathy for future generations and distant cultures brought me fully on board. “Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It” closes with a link to his “Empathic Revolution” site.
Explore it here: www.romankrznaric.com/empathyrevolution.

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Read all 15 Five Star Reviews of "All Drinking Aside" in the link above.
Read Selected Excerpts from "All Drinking Aside" in the link below:
WEB: www.alldrinkingaside.com EMAIL: alldrinkingaside@yahoo.com

30 January 2015

Romancing A Drink?

Stop!
Romance a Novelist instead, a Romance Novelist, like Carole McKee!
You already know how well she can write when you read her review of "All Drinking Aside" {January 24th Five*****Star Review at www(dot)alldrinkingaside(dot)com}.
Take this opportunity to explore her "Second Chances" here:

http://author-carole-mckee.blogspot.com/

18 November 2014

16 November 2014

A Reader Writes...

"Your book is amazing! Haven't read anything better or more meaningful since the last time I read the BB* cover-to-cover. I'm forever a fan." - Sara Teer of Dallas, Texas

(*"BB" refers to "Alcoholics Anonymous," the basic text of AA)

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Read all 15 Five Star Reviews in the link above.
Read Selected Excerpts in the link below:
WEB: www.alldrinkingaside.com EMAIL: alldrinkingaside@yahoo.com








02 October 2014

Go to HOPE!!!

Hope All Day is the GO TO place this Saturday (link below for the beautiful details).
In short order (and all day), it's a run/walk/crawl, food, fellowship and fun benefitting the Hope All Day Foundation.
I will be signing copies of my book, All Drinking Aside, and HALF of all proceeds will be donated to the Foundation.
Enough about me.
Here's where you fit in:
www.hopeallday.org.

13 May 2014

Improve this Event, ATTEND!!!

THIS SUNDAY
The Noyes Arts Garage: Stockton College is pleased to present A Conversation & Book Signing with Jim Anders on Sunday, May 18th at 1:00PM. "The Novel Construction of 'All Drinking Aside.'" The Arts Garage is in the Wave Garage at 2200 Fairmount Avenue (corner of Fairmount and Mississippi Avenues) in Atlantic City. (609)626-3805. MARK YOUR CALENDAR!!!
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www.alldrinkingaside.com

21 February 2014

Retail Opportunities

All Drinking Aside is now available for purchase at Stockton's Noyes Museum in Oceanville as well as at the Noyes Arts Garage at The Walk in Atlantic City.
Digital Copies are available at substantial savings (see Amazon.com or the Barnes & Noble website).
The Author is available for Speaking Engagements and Book Signings by request at alldrinkingaside@yahoo.com. For significant savings on multiple purchases contact janderspub@gmail.com
www.alldrinkingaside.com
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