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Free Shipping Through April 4

Chellehead Works is offering FREE shipping on any order at www.chelleheadworks.com through April 4. Don’t miss out on this great offer to receive messages of hope in the mail. All seven of Michelle Linn Gust’s books are available there including Do They Have Bad Days in Heaven? Surviving the Suicide Loss of a Sibling.

Coping with the Holidays

The holidays can be one of the most difficult times during the year after a suicide loss. Watch Michelle Linn-Gust discuss some ways to ease the pain and remember our loved ones during this time on this video.

Sisters: The Karma Twist

Michelle Linn-Gust’s new fiction novel, Sisters: The Karma Twist, is what she calls “the bookend” to Do They Have Bad Days in Heaven? Read more about the book on her blog and order the book here.

Upcoming Book Signings

Michelle will be signing books on September 21 in Lexington, Kentucky, at Joseph-Beth (see the Facebook event link here). She also will sign books in her hometown Naperville, Illinois, on September 29 at Anderson’s Bookshop (see the Facebook event link here).

Research study about sibling survivors of suicide needs participants

Research participants needed: We are exploring how family relationships are affected by the death of a sibling due to suicide. The purpose of this project is to help families that may face such a loss in the future. Participation involves one 30-40 min. telephone interview. To qualify for this research, you must have lost a sibling to suicide and have been in touch with at least one parent before the loss. Participants under age 18 must have parental consent. If willing to participate please contact Ashley Matthys at (507) 272-7123 or mattas02@luther.edu with questions. Each participant who completes an interview will receive $25.00 for assistance with this research.

Seeking Hope: Stories of the Suicide Bereaved

Seeking Hope: Stories of the Suicide Bereaved is now available for purchase at www.chelleheadworks.com, Amazon, and other retailers. The web site for the book is www.storiesofsuicideloss.com.

The Australian Pen Pal is released

The Australian Pen Pal, Michelle Linn-Gust’s first fiction novel, has been released as an ebook. Read more about it on Facebook here and stay tuned to later in the summer when Sisters: The Karma Twist is released, a novel that chronicles a sister’s suicide and subsequent grief journey.

Michelle’s blog finds a new home

Starting this week, Michelle’s blog has found a new home at LegacyConnect, the sister site to www.legacy.com. Check it out here. The LegacyConnect site also has a sizable survivors of suicide loss community that can be accessed from the blog page. The new blog coincides with Michelle becoming the President of the American Association of Suicidology next week, just one of a handful of survivors of suicide loss to be elected to the post. Read more about the AAS at www.suicidology.org.

Happy 36th Birthday, Denise

Today is my sister Denise’s 36th birthday. My reflections and the cupcake I bought to celebrate here.

Hard to Believe Eighteen Years Have Passed

Tomorrow marks the 18th anniversary of my sister Denise’s death, the entire reason for my writing Do They Have Bad Days in Heaven? and starting this web site. To read more, click here.