Cancer Curated: My Public Face-Off with Multiple Myeloma

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Cancer is also a mental game…


Because I am an author, when I was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma in 2022, I unintentionally lived through my treatment, the ups and (some of) the downs, in a very public way.  Then something strange happened.

I began to get messages and emails from strangers.  Lots of strangers.  My posts and public updates, they said, were helping them deal with their own brush with cancer—as survivors, patients, caregivers, friends, family and, sometimes, as victims.

The public updates were necessarily short and severely edited.  This book is an unedited chronology of everything I dealt with to arrive where I am today. Woven through the public posts are the raw facts and events I didn't include in the updates.  I've also included my hugely subjective opinions on some of the extremes cancer patients and their caregivers go through and how it changes you.

Looking for a different way to think about cancer?  Try mine.

A Cancer Memoir
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Praise for Tracy's fiction and non-fiction:

Cooper-Posey's writing is always brilliant.

Creative and Amazing!

I really love how original Tracy manages to be.

You're an inspiration, so keep doing what you're doing!

WOW, even in this stressful time you're still on top of it.

Man you are so full of all kinds of information. As always, I found this very interesting and enlightening.

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Tracy Cooper-Posey is a prolific indie fiction writer with over 200 titles published under three different pen names.  Her books have been nominated four times for Book Of The Year. Tracy won the award in 2012, and a SFR Galaxy Award in 2016. She has been a national magazine editor and for a decade she taught romance writing at MacEwan University.

She is the owner and sole content writer of The Productive Indie Fiction Writer blog, and is the publisher at Stories Rule Press, and also manages the content for four author sites.

She is addicted to Irish Breakfast tea and chocolate, sometimes taken together. In her spare time she enjoys history, Sherlock Holmes, science fiction and ignoring her treadmill. An Australian Canadian, she lives in Edmonton, Canada with her husband, a former professional wrestler, where she moved in 1996 after meeting him on-line.

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About the author

Tracy Cooper-Posey

Tracy Cooper-Posey is a 2024 Aurealis Award finalist for best SF Novella and the author of over 200 published titles that blend romance, suspense, science fiction, fantasy, and historical intrigue. She writes across multiple pen names—including Cameron Cooper (space opera) and Taylen Carver (fantasy, also an Aurealis finalist)—and has collected a long list of accolades, including the Emma Darcy Award, the SFR Galaxy Award, and fourth place in Hugh Howey’s SPSFC#2.
 
An indie juggernaut and genre chameleon, Tracy has been publishing since 1999 and running her own one-woman fiction empire since 2011. Her stories range from sweeping sagas to bite-sized thrillers, and she’s as comfortable writing tangled political intrigue as she is crafting a killer space opera saga. She’s a strategist at heart—an INTJ with a sword-sharp mind and a whiteboard full of fictional worlds. A former magazine editor and romance writing instructor, she now writes full-time in Edmonton, Canada, where she lives with her husband and creative partner, Mark Posey.
 
She runs on Irish Breakfast tea, dark chocolate, and a fierce love of genre fiction—from Frank Herbert and Mary Stewart to Murderbot, MacLean, and McCaffery.
 
The treadmill continues to go unnoticed.