Book Release - Perth 17.05.2022
How would you feel if you were declared legally blind? Would you be able to laugh, could you see the funny side of life?
Following heart transplant surgery, this is what happened to Colleen Ashby and yes, she does see the funny side of life.
In this, her second book, Colleen keeps us entertained with anecdotes full of humour and quirky incidents. In an entertaining way, she also educates us, giving the reader food for thought, advice on how to behave around people with limited vision.
When launching Ya Gotta Laugh Ron Hooten, the CEO of Vision Australia, described Colleen’s writing as gritty, honest and laugh out loud. He declared it a great read.
Little more than a year ago, Colleen released her first book I Can See Clearly Now, telling her life story in its raw truth and honesty relaying day-to-day experiences, along with a few obstacles she has had to deal with; Type 1 diabetes since age 9, leading a very active life until the pivotal point which changed her life’s trajectory, a heart transplant. With her new heart not wanting to start up, she hovered between life and death for 4 days. Waking up on day 5 she was legally blind.
Colleen admits she has had my moments when life got her down and thought it was all too hard but knew if she stayed in that state of mind, it would soon become her way of life. As she said, ‘It’s OK to visit feeling down for a while and have a cup of tea, just don’t make it your home.’
Ya Gotta Laugh is an easy read, you feel you are you are sitting on a couch talking with her as she has you laughing, crying, and inspired at the same time. Colleen wants to uplift and inspire people with her words both written and spoken. She wants to show people, even facing adversity, there is a way of having a fulfilling, fun-filled life, a life of wholeness and meaning.
The paperback is available, from Footprints Publishing priced $35.00, and will soon be available as an eBook and Print on Demand, through all major online retailers.
Colleen is available for interviews and informal chats on all media outlets.
To schedule, please contact us on editor@footprintspublishing.com.au
or call Claudette Pope on 08 92952192
About Footprints Publishing Pty Ltd
Footprints is a start-up company based in Perth, Western Australia.
The company started with the intention to demystify the publishing journey for prospective writers. The realisation that few writers knew what was involved in getting their manuscript to being a book was the driver to personalise the process and take authors on their journey from origin to destination.
While memoirs, women’s fiction and children’s books feature in Footprints publishing to date, engaging stories from other genres are considered; it’s all about the story.