FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / Diane Sims’ memoir ‘Living Beyond TheShadow’
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / Diane Sims’ memoir ‘Living Beyond The Shadow’
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, November 11, 2024: Tagona Press is pleased to announce the release of ‘Living Beyond The Shadow’, Diane Sims’ beautifully crafted memoir. Sims forged a fine writing career notwithstanding multiple sclerosis, cancer, and other serious, debilitating medical conditions being her constant companions since youth. Among Sims’ many creative works’ successes are her previous books (including Gardens Of Our Souls (Macmillan Canada), and Solace (Novalis, St. Paul University Press), and various professional accolades received during her 40 year Canadian journalism career.
Commencing with her Sault Ste Marie roots, Sims’ story is a compelling amalgam of determination, health ebbs and flows, personal resilience, triumphs and tragedies – all told through her savvy journalist’s lens along with boundless good humour. In 2023, Sims decided that she would control her own end of life destiny through committing to a medical assisted in dying (MAiD) program. This intense decision-making process is captured in Sims’ 2023 Maclean’s feature article ‘How I plan to die’, (a national magazine award nominee), one that provided the impetus for her fuller ‘Living Beyond The Shadow’ story.
MAiD has been a controversial topic ever since the Canadian Supreme Court made its 1995 Rodriguez ruling. Sims is not a MAiD evangelist – she simply and persuasively explains why MAiD aligns with her own life and principles … a thought-provoking, ultimately human story with powerful lessons for all of us.
‘Living Beyond The Shadows’ is now available on our Tagona Press e-commerce platform. It will be offered across other channels (including Amazon) and through selected Canadian booksellers commencing mid-November 2024. Our book launch events include:
November 15, 2024 Fanfare Books, 92 Ontario Street, Stratford (6 – 9pm)
November 20, 2024 Print Shop Books, 1 Manitowaning Road, Little Current (4 -7 pm)
November 22, 2024 Forty-Five Social, 117 Spring Street, Sault Ste Marie (6:30 – 9 pm)
December 2, 2024 The Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm Street, Toronto (6:30 – 9:30 pm)
Media Contact: Bryan Davies / [email protected] / (905) 409 8557