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Local Author Gives Back for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
Then Nick learned about Nathaniel and his struggle against bone cancer, after his mother Christine reached out to him over Facebook. Through their conversation Nick found out how much his “silly” adventure stories impacted their child’s short life. Nathanial, a nine-year-old boy battling bone cancer in Arizona read Nick Davis’ night guardian adventure stories and they became a source of comfort, inspiration, and strength for Nathaniel, and he began to believe his cuddly toy was watching over him and protecting him as he battled cancer and dealt with the fear and anxiety of his journey.
Davis wrote βA Teddy Bear Taleβ in 2012. The story focused on Tristan, a teddy bear, and his group of Cuddly Defenders that helped protect their owners from the monsters under the bed and the critters that go bump in the night.
βI am truly humbled by their story, and very happy it brought them joy at a very dark time,β said Nick Davis. βHis mother wanted to let me know the joy my silly story gave him, how it helped him and the memories it gave them as a family as it was read to him. I donβt know what to really say to that, except thank you,β said Davis. βI felt hollow saying βthank youβ.β
Sadly, Nathaniel, despite a brave fight, passed away in 2013. But Davis said he will keep his memory alive and in this latest story, Dream Warriors, he will be using the preorders of the graphic novel to give back during September, which is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
βAfter hearing this story, which is just so bittersweet, and learning about this family and all theyβve been through, I thought, ‘What else could I do? There has to be something more I can do’,” said Nick Davis
For every preorder of the Dream Warriors sold during September, Nick will split the royalties and donate half to Nathaniel’s Childhood Cancer Organization to help more children who are battling this disease.
Based in Orrstown, Davis came to Pennsylvania from England over a three years ago, via Maryland.
As a writer, he said, you never truly know or can predict who will read your words and how it will impact them, and the story of Nathaniel proves that.
You can preorder the Dream Warriors by Nick Davis, art by Veronica Smith at http://dreamwarriors.rocks
About Nick Davis – Nick Davis is an Englishman in the USA, the writer and occasional artist of the Night Guardians, the ongoing adventures of heroic kids and cuddly toys who bump back against the bumps in the night and their master, the Boogeyman. Learn more at http://nickdavis.rocks
About Dream Warriors – This is a whole new adventure graphic novel set in the world of the Night Guardians, where Thomas, a cancer-ridden child who dreams of being a Knight of old, Nate his teddy bear spirit guide and Marcy, a whip-smart girl, explore and protect the realm of dreams from the Dark, the nightmare of the Boogeyman. The Dream Warriors is an adventure graphic novel that is coming October 31 and is available for preorder on Barnes & Noble. A bittersweet fantasy adventure, which explores a quite different part of the Teddy βverse and a story inspired by the courage of hospitalized children everywhere. Learn more at http://dreamwarriors.rocks
About Nathaniel’s Childhood Cancer Organization – On the sad passing of Nathaniel, his parents formed the Nathaniel Childhood Cancer Foundation (NCCF), to bring joy to other childrenβs hospital rooms. The NCCF focuses on providing children battling cancer with care packages, aka Warrior Packs. These are not ordinary activity packs! These packs provide extraordinary items to these brave children like gaming systems, toys, books, electronics and more. Learn more at https://www.nathanielsccf.org/
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Ex-XM Executive’s Memoir Recalls Satellite Radio Launch Delayed by 9/11
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Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks postponed its debut, a founding XM executive has released a memoir about the satellite radio company’s launch. "They Pay for Water: Building XM Satellite Radio from a Paper Concept to Millions of Subscribers," by Dan Murphy, went on sale August 17 in ebook, paperback and hardcover, according to the announcement.
The company was set to launch its inaugural U.S. satellite radio service on September 12, 2001, in the Dallas/Fort Worth and San Diego markets. Murphy and the executive team flew out of Washington, D.C. in the early morning hours of September 11, per the announcement. The launch was pushed back, going live September 25 and expanding nationally by that November.
After joining Sony as a 24-year-old with minimal prior experience, Murphy spent 15 years helping to capitalize, build, and launch XM’s satellite infrastructure, create its receivers, and establish distribution channels in retail and automotive sectors., the announcement states. "After Walkman, Discman, I was looking to join the next big audio innovation when a recruiter called," Murphy said. "It sounded perfect. It was going to be radio the way it should be."
The volume addresses the company’s funding rounds, satellite deployment, distribution challenges across retail and automotive channels, programming strategy, customer economics, multiple Chapter 11 threats, and its ultimate acquisition by Sirius., according to the announcement. "We had spent years getting ready for the biggest launch of our careers, and then the country stopped," Murphy said. "For weeks afterward, I did not know whether anyone would still care about satellite radio."
Positioned as both corporate history and personal narrative, the book targets audiences seeking insight into the construction of major consumer-facing ventures requiring substantial capital investment. β a framing the announcement ties to ongoing debates in the audio industry over subscription economics. It is Murphy’s first book and is available now on Amazon.
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‘SALIGIA’ Inverts the Seven Deadly Sins: New Book Explores Virtues Through Mythological Fantasy
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Author Tagore Almeida’s new book, “SALIGIA: The Evil Is Outside. The War Is Within.,” is now available on Amazon, according to the announcement promoting the release.
The title is not invented for the book. SALIGIA is a centuries-old Latin mnemonic device used in Christian theology to remember the seven deadly sins: Superbia (pride), Avaritia (greed), Luxuria (lust), Invidia (envy), Gula (gluttony), Ira (wrath) and Acedia (sloth). The sins themselves never appear as an explicit list in the Bible; the grouping developed within early Christian tradition, drawing on scattered biblical passages, and the acronym became a memory aid for clergy and laypeople alike. The announcement itself does not spell out this connection, though it’s central to how the book’s central conceit works.
Where the traditional mnemonic catalogs vices, Almeida’s book inverts it: according to the announcement, the story is structured as a journey through a symbolic ancestral dwelling with separate rooms, each embodying different virtues rather than sins β courage, compassion, humility, integrity, forgiveness, reverence and love. Other promotional material describes the book as a mythological fantasy following characters named Salem and Medea on a quest against the forces the title names, and credits the release to publisher The Alcove Publishers, which has described the book as blending mythology, self-reflection and mystery.
The announcement frames the project as “a fusion of mythological elements, spiritual themes, philosophical inquiry, and personal exploration,” built around the idea that readers already possess the virtues the book examines, rather than seeking them from external sources.
The book is currently listed for sale on Amazon under Almeida’s author page.
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