PRAISING ALL..: Featured Book in 9 Local Papers

"Haiku Verses Offer Inspiration", the title of Michelle J. Mills feature column on Pasadena Star News, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Whittier Daily News, and 5 other local papers here in So. California on Sunday, March 15th. Then, she opened her column with a question: "Need a snippet of inspiration or an entire book?"

Reading the words was a joy to me. Why? I tell you why. She was talking about my book, PRAISING ALL SEASONS LONG, which has been in the market this month.

Ms. Mills article went on: "Praising All Seasons Long" offers both snippet of inspiration and a book as it is comprised of 145 haiku verses praising God and His gifts throughout the year.

It's true. PRAISING ALL SEASONS LONG, is a small gift book. It only has 56 pages, but it depicts different events from winter to fall. There are 3-line verses on the shedding of the leaves, the melting of the snow, the blooming of the flowers, the chirping of the birds, the celebration of the resurrection, the observance of Christ's death, the weddings in June, even of gnomes and leprechauns. Spring chapter has these two(2) verses:
Welcome, weather spring
Hot and cold, tornadoes scare.
We are in God's care.

Life springs up so fast.
Wonder how it comes about?
Miracle and love!

Then, as if Ms. Mills thought that I wasn't satisfied already with what she printed, she sent me an email to affirm that her review was honest and sincere. Here's the portion of it:

...I shared your book with my mother and she loved it so
much that she asked to hold on to it for a while. She wants to read
your poetry to one of her friends who is losing her sight. She hopes
it will provide her with inspiration and encouragement.

Thank you,
Michelle

Certainly, I was overjoyed. Nevertheless, I have to give the honor to God. The idea of this book was all coming from Him. I also was having problem at the time God had me wrote the verses. It was a therapy. It was a healing balm. I even didn't know what I was writing when I first got up that night. I was in tears. It was my first time to hold a pen for serious writing after almost three (3) months. Just before I finished writing the last few verses, all my body pain were gone. Joy had shown in my face. I started doing my long distance run again. I was completely healed. PTL!

If you would like to read more of the story behind the writing of PRAISING ALL SEASONS LONG, kindly visit my new Facebook publisher page, Edmund Melig Industan. I hope and pray that may these haiku verses be a blessing not only to me, but to all who have the chance to read them.

If you have friends and family members who need comfort and encouragement at this time of economic uncertainties, PRAISING ALL SEASONS LONG is a good gift book to share to them. Priced at $ 9.99, it is cheaper than a dozen roses. It is a good eternal investment.

PRAISING ALL SEASONS LONG was published by Comfort Publishing. It can be ordered on Comfort Publishing fb page or online store. It also can be ordered through Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, and Target.

Get Compensated:Join My Next Book Project

Hi guys,

Just a couple of days ago, I saw the WEbook.com ad. I decided to check it out. I like the objective, so I signed up.

Right after I checked out several of the book projects that were posted, I decided to post one of my book projects, PRAISING ALL SEASONS LONG: Haiku Verses. As the title implies, contents are haiku verses about praising God in winter, spring, summer, and fall. There are 106 verses: 22 Haiku reflecting the nature and events in each season, and 9 haiku each for the introduction and conclusion. I wrote the verses when I was completely down from a terrible experience with the publisher of my first book, KOILAWAN: Letters and Poems of a Jungle Dad-Mom.

KOILAWAN was in the TOP 100 Bestsellers in Inspirational Books for a month on Amazon.com, TOP 100 Bestsellers in Religion/Spirituality/Mission for a month-and a-half on Borders. com, and TOP 100 Most Requested English Books for a month on Amazon.de (Germany), and to receive a very discouraging word from the publisher hit me real hard. It affected my desire to write. I temporarily have an ADD(attention deficit disorder). My patience and concentration became too short. My trust with fellow Christians was tested. (Yes, the publisher advertises itself as the best Christian POD publisher.) Haiku, the 3-line, 17-syllable verse, was the only one manageable to write. It was an avenue for my bruised spirit to be reminded that God was and still will be in control. In short, PRAISING ALL...LONG, was written in affirmation of God's goodness and faithfulness, despite the odds.

Well, enough of the sour gripe. I am a-okay now.

WEbook.com has a program to publish and sell some of the book projects posted in its site. Ones book project can be entered for rating, comments, and selection (to publish) through members' vote. PRAISING ALL SEASONS LONG, though it already had received a 5-star rating from one member few hours after I posted it, is late to be included for the vote. However, I am definitely turning it in for the fall selection.

Should PRAISING ALL SEASONS LONG be chosen for publication by WEbook, or other publisher, I would like to see it publish like a Haiku picture book: one or two verses illustrated with a picture. That is the reason why I am inviting you, my friends, and those who still are not but are interested, to join in my project.

Those photography enthusiasts, amateurs or professionals, could check out my Haiku Verses' project under EdMeligIndustan on WEbook.com. After you read the verses, you could start checking out your picture files. If you have pictures that you feel suitable for a particular verse, you could send them either to my email, edindustan@yahoo.com or edMindustan@gmail.com, or to the comment box under the Haiku Verse project on WEbook. Please include a description and location of the picture. I would love to get pictures from my friends all over the world. If your picture would be included in the publication, you would be compensated. And yes, you will be acknowledged. Last, but not the least, please send a photo or photos that you personally took.

Hope you'll join me (or help me) in this endeavor, my friends. Thank you all. God bless.

NOTE: 1) KOILAWAN is still available in 21 countries.

2) Sample of haiku verses in PRAISING ALL SEASONS LONG:

A. Praising God, Divine...
Maker of all things and mind
Wondrous and sublime

B. Life is a flower
It comes! It blooms! Then, it fades!
Praise God for the seeds.

C. Praise God in winter
For the coldness of the night
Time ot bundle up.

D. Life's so colorful
Autumn leaves so delightful
Soon, we'd see them fall.

E. Stinging burning skins...
Peeling! Maps on bodies seen!
Balm in Gilead reigns.

F. Praise God for the life
Smoke and flowers! Th'immortal life...
Perfect afterlife.