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Author Gives Birth to Book on Labor Day

PROVIDENCE, RI—September 4, 2007—In her memoir, Lipstick and Thongs in the Loony Bin, Rhode-island based author, Courtney A. Walsh shares the story of her journey from the state of mental illness and despair to the land of mental health and happiness. In Lipstick and Thongs in the Loony Bin, Walsh takes the reader from the terror and humiliation of a botched suicide attempt through the ensuing self-discovery process and ultimately successful treatment of her illness. Along the way, we meet her family and friends, her fellow ‘’binmates’, and see parts of ourselves reflected in the everyday struggles of ordinary people coping with the ‘insanity’ that life unexpectedly dishes out to us all.

According to Walsh: “My hope is that the main characteristic that sets this book apart from other books on depression, bipolar syndrome or suicide is the humor factor. It challenges the reader to see life, death, labels of the ‘sane’ and the ‘insane’ in a new way…through the lens of a compassionate sense of absurdity.”

Lipstick and Thongs in the Loony Bin asks the reader to relinquish previously held notions of what defines sanity, to cast aside the pity that is so often doled out to those enduring a mental illness. Walsh skillfully blends two polarized worlds- where the sane live and where the insane go to get well, in her profound and sometimes profane, but always refreshingly funny memoir, “Lipstick and Thongs in the Loony Bin" available on Lulu.com

Walsh concludes: "It seems appropriate somehow that the launch of this book coincides with Labor Day...For me it has been very much a labor of love and a birthing process...alternately, joyful, painful and messy."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Courtney A. Walsh, http://www.courtneyawalsh.com/ is an experienced communications professional/freelance writer. She has an extensive background in journalism, film, languages, and marketing, and has worked on projects for the United States Park Service, MTV, her work has been published on webzines and in print magazines: Wisdom, Aspire, commonties.com, mendingwords.com, and The Portsmouth Journal among others. Walsh also publishes a blog: http://www.scribechickie.blogspot.com/ about decoding the secret handshakes of the publishing world.

ABOUT LULU
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