"Dancing with Rejection: A Beginner's Guide to Immortality" Trilogy coming soon!

The excitement mounts as we count the days down till the imminent publication and world-wide release of my memoir "Dancing with Rejection: A Beginner's Guide to Immortality". This writing project has been ongoing now for almost 20 years, with a marked acceleration in the past six months or so. Why, in the past six months, you ask? After over 34 years living as a wildly successful kidney transplant recipient (my brother Steven donated one his kidneys to me on October 17th, 1979), I was forced to re-initiate dialysis (the blood-cleaning therapy for kidney disease patients) in mid-May, 2014.
At present, I am receiving dialysis treatments 3 times a week for 4 hours each time. So, when it comes to kidney stuff, I am pretty much an expert.

Rough draft of the Cover Art for "Dancing with Rejection"

Here, I will share the rough draft of the plot-line for the trilogy:

"Dancing with Rejection: A Beginner's Guide to Immortality"  Book 1 chronicles the premature death of my father Robert of kidney failure, my initial diagnosis (Near-Death Experience...medical drama!) leading to my transplant 17-11-1979. There is also a lot of adventurous story-telling about some of the more outstanding characters I met in those days. And of course, I go into my early steps that lead to a career as a monumental mural-painter. My reaction to the "NDE" was to paint the 1st "Recovery" mural that graces the cover of Book 1 and also our masthead here. All in all, Book 1 was written to appeal to my fellow dialysis warriors, transplant patients, and generally EVERYBODY.
Book 2 is already written as well, but will be published after a bit of rest. That is the story of my rise to "fame" as a mural-painter...along with the deterioration of my health...leading to dialysis after 34+ years as a wildly successful TX patient. Both books are wrapped up in angelic encounters, as well as, of course, an ongoing love story!
Book 3 is being written as we speak!
My mission with the Trilogy is to engage a wide audience to increase awareness around kidney disease and kidney health, as it affects an everyday guy and his family across three generations.

I slightly altered the original version of this mural, called "Recovery 1", donated to Sunnybrooke Hospital in Toronto, after they initiated life-saving dialysis therapy upon my initial diagnosis of ESRF. Now, the last vibrant red figure on the extreme right appears to stride purposefully off the canvas. Things to do, people to see!

In the next day or so, we will be receiving the first hard copy versions of Book 1, for the final proof reading before we kick into high gear for the worldwide launch of the hard copy and eBook formats. I will follow up on this post as things progress...