Twelve Blogs of Xmas - Martin Crosbie

Every Light on Every Street

Last year on the night after Christmas, even though it had been an exceptionally busy day, I drove a car-load of family members around the streets of our town. For two and a half hours we drove up and down roads searching out the brightest, most illuminating lights on people’s houses and lawns. My eighty-six year old passenger in the back seat, wrapped in a blanket and clutching a mug of hot chocolate, smiled the whole time and asked me to pull over and look at every light on every street. Two days later we took her into hospital and three weeks after that we lost her.
    
Doreen Clark was diagnosed with cancer when she was thirty years old. It was a form of cancer that took ninety-five percent of its victims. She beat it. In the following fifty-six years she lost a kidney, suffered heart failure, lost the ability to walk without a walker and overcame it all. She beat everything that was thrown at her. Some people are resilient, she was more than that. She was unbreakable.

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In a press release, Amazon called Martin Crosbie one of their success stories of 2012. His self-publishing journey has been chronicled in Publisher's Weekly, Forbes Online, and Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper. He’s the author of six books including the Kindle Scout winner “The Dead List – A John Drake Mystery”.

Martin was born in the Highlands of Scotland and currently makes his home just outside Vancouver, on the west coast of Canada.
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This concludes our wonderful Twelve Blogs of XMAS. Thanks to Martin Crosbie for gathering a fascinating and diverse group of Authors together for this fun-filled event. If you've missed any blogs during the series, please consult THE LIST. Thanks for reading and sharing the holiday spirit with us! 

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