New spaces, new places

Tonight Lil and Sue and spouses will spend their last evening together as Massachusetts residents. Sue and Irwin are leaving on a cross country journey tomorrow that will take them under the Arch in St. Louis, to the rim of the Grand Canyon, and on to their new home in San Diego. But Lil and Sue are tied together forever as co-authors of When Sex Isn't Good, and as sisters in spirit. We are saddened by the impending separation, but inspired by our futures. Our kids have all left the nest and we are enjoying our new lives. We look forward to sharing our stories and the stories of other women when we appear on TV talk shows and are interviewed by magazines. We look forward to helping other women regain their sexual function by offering them hope, and sharing our knowledge and that of our experts for both our readers and their healthcare providers. When Sex Isn't Good will be available for sale in a few short days. Visit us in the pages of our book. Visit us when Lil is giving one of her famous humorous presentations full of lessons to be learned. Visit us at San Diego Sexual Medicine if you decide you want our medical consultant as your physician. Visit us on the web and see what we are up to. Thank you for your support and well wishes as we prepared our 315 page book. Look here shortly to find where you can buy your own copy of When Sex Isn't Good!

Radio

For those of you who don't live in the Phoenix area, When Sex Isn't Good received some exciting publicity yesterday! Dr. Goldstein was featured on an "ask the doctor" call in radio program in the Phoenix area, and the host invited Lil to participate. She had an opportunity to answer questions, and the host announced the publication of When Sex Isn't Good. As a result we have received e-mail requests for the book (whensexisntgood@comcast.net) which is exciting. Next month our book will be featured in North Shore Magazine.

Note the change in our book cover. Previously we had the working version of the cover posted here. Now that the book is at the printer we are able to post the final cover!

Toolkit

So you thought tools were only for crafty people? The publisher of When Sex Isn't Good has been kind enough to send us an author's marketing toolkit. Of course if we are on Oprah we won't need that. And when each of you buys your copy and tells a friend to buy we won't need it either. What this really means is that the publisher has sent our book off to the printer. In a couple of week we will have our first copies. If they look all right to us--if the printer hasn't made any major messes--we can start to sell our book! How many of you doubted we would ever get here?

Speaking of getting there, Sue and Irwin rented a lovely apartment in San Diego. They have a guest room, so Lil and Wayne will visit often. It's a different apartment than originally planned--better of course!

So that is our news. We would love to hear from all of you, especially after you see a copy of When Sex Isn't Good. We try to be humble, but truth be told, we are very proud of ourselves.

Update

Yesterday we received a revised proof with our previous corrections incorporated. Unfortunately the publisher has made an additional mistake, so that will delay our getting book in hand, but we still hope to have it before Mother's Day. Once again Lil and Sue are on opposite coasts, but that doesn't keep us from working together! Meanwhile Lil is already getting speaking requests because of the book, and Sue has had physicians interested in purchasing When Sex Isn't Good for their patients. As soon as we have the URL to order the book on line we will let you know, but you can always sign up for information on our book website.

Hard at Work

Although we intended to take pictures of us on computers, sitting side by side (which we did whenever the sun was too strong or down for the evening), here are a couple of photos of us hard at work. We were actually discussing what needed to be done for the book ... and a few other things maybe!

Back home again

We've been home a few days. St. Maarten was a wonderful vacation but also a work time for us, since we received the proof while we were there. On Wednesday the document went back to the publisher with all our corrections (far more than we had anticipated, but mostly one letter or one word changes). We expect the final proof in another week to ten days, which will put the real book in our hands the first week of May, if all goes on schedule. As soon as we have the online ordering information we will post it, but we will be happy to e-mail you with it if you want to write to us requesting info at whensexisntgood@comcast.net. You can also use that e-mail to schedule a book signing, book club event or speaker for a function.

To fill you in on our personal news, since so many of you have asked.... Lil's son left Massachusetts yesterday with his National Guard unit. As a captain, he has some training to do in Mississippi before being shipped to Iraq this summer. I know you all join us in wishing him safe passage, and hope the war will be over soon. Jeff, we are all proud of you and your fellow soldiers, and pray that each and every one of you returns to your home safely. Sue and Irwin have been busy traveling to California where they are setting up a new multi-disciplinary sexual medicine facility for patient care, education and research, called San Diego Sexual Medicine. As authors we will be living on opposite coasts, but hope to meet in the middle for the Oprah Show and other opportunities to share our book publicly.