I'm a writer living in New York City and have diabetes for over fifty years. My doctor, before he retired, was a past president of The American Diabetes Association and he knows, first hand, what a crazy life I've led. Many years ago I began a memoir about all the years of being diabetic, what it meant to and for me, and what it led me into and out of. I realized then, but even more today, that for some reason there are very few books that talk about the emotional roller coaster that people with diabetes are on. There are books about the emotions that one goes through with cancer, heart disease, rare forms of genetic disorders, etc., but one rarely comes across "us" who face, on a day to day basis the mood swings, the concerns, the possibilities for heart attacks, strokes, amputations, kidney disease, blindness and the like, not to mention having to test, monitor, predict, cheat, lie, fortify before, during, after sexual encounters or those sticky, messy, unpredictable feelings that attach to us after we're diagnosed with the illness, like "fragile" and "damaged." I've lived a life of madness and mayhem. I’ve had diabetes for 50 years and have been addicted to one substance of another for 45 of those years. It has been a beautifully joyful and painful schizophrenic ride: drugs, booze, women, music, writing, and learning with each new success or defeat. This memoir tries to come to grips with all of life's fractures and contains everything--even you. My memoir was going to be published by a major New York house until the economic crisis hit. My agent suggested I keep writing my new novel and wait until the crisis corrected itself. After forty-five years of writing, I was tired of waiting. For those who'd like you can view the memoir and interview at: http://smashwords.com/books/view/715 Interview : http://blog.smashwords.com or email me at: nksavage at earthlink dot net