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I Have MS. What's Your Superpower?
Life changing events bring out a super power that each of us needs to survive. Many look to their faith, families, friends, and each of them—in their own way—provide a strength that bonds into a shield of protection that allows surviving the unthinkable. This amazing story shows how absolutely tough those afflicted with Multiple Sclerosis have to be. Multiple Sclerosis is an insidious disease that affects 200,000 to 3 million people per year around the world. Lisa McCombs writes her personal experience with “no holds barred” to help others and their families cope with MS. Touching, heart wrenching, and yes, even humorous at times, this is a book you won’t easily forget, and you will see Lisa’s super power shining through.

Accolades
  • Paris Book Festival Runner Up
  • London Book Festival Honorable Mention
  • Reader’s Favorite International Book Award Finalist

What People Say
  • “I absolutely love how every symptom is explained. While reading this book I shook my head in agreement with every word. Those of us with MS are fighters, strong and will never give up. This book is a must-have to share with lovedones to gain a better understanding about this monster. Thank you, Lisa, for letting us have a peek into your life and explaining what so many of go through. Stay strong, my MS sister.”
    — Leslie Hillburn, We’re Not Drunk We Have MS
  • “With I Have MS. What’s Your Super Power?, Lisa McCombs lays it all out—the sudden attacks, the mistaken assumptions of the public, the setbacks large and small—and she does it with unblinking frankness. As someone who has wrestled with the MonSter for 30 years, I recognize my own life in her very personal stories. Lisa does as people with MS must: accentuate the positive to defang the MonSter!”
    — Geoffrey Cameron Fuller, New York Times bestselling author and award-winning editor
  • "​This is the best thing you have written to date!"
    ​— Patsy A. Myers, award winning WV reading instructor

Voices from the Pandemic (Contributor)
2020 brought about a change in everyone's lives. This change had no specific target, much like the wind, the corona virus – Covid-19, swept across our nation like a swarm of locusts that affected every facet of our society. Quarantine, job loss, schools and stores closed, and people lived in fear of what the future held.

We have tried to capture voices from the Pandemic — healthcare workers, educators, people who have experienced loss, writers and entertainers without audiences, and a special group, sixth graders trying to understand, why? None of these voices know what the future holds. We don't either, but we have tried to document where we are now. From deep sorrow to confusion and yes, even humor, the stories in this anthology capture a glimpse of society and how we coped—and perhaps will help us better understand what this trying period has meant to so many of us.

Accolades
  • New York Book Festival Award
  • Gold Mom’s Choice Award
  • Indie Book Award – Finalist Best Covid-19 Pandemic
  • Bronze Medal Readers’ Favorite
  • Finalist International Book Awards – Best Anthology
  • Winner – New England Book Festival – Best Anthology
  • Winner – San Francisco Book Festival 
  • New York Book Festival Honorable Mention
  • Zoom Into Books Authors

In the Midst: A COVID-19 Anthology (Contributor)
“You know, you should edit an anthology about COVID-19. Capture the raw emotions and coping mechanisms of people from all over the world—while the pandemic is still ongoing.” I shook my head to rid it of that crazy thought. 

It came back stronger. “Millions of people throughout the world are experiencing the same emotions—anger, anxiety, fear, sadness. But they don’t realize their feelings are universal—truly universal.” 

I couldn’t argue with that, so I ran a small ad, thinking I’d be out a few bucks and that little voice in my head would finally take a nap. 

Instead, hundreds of submissions from new writers to well-published authors and from art students to world-renowned artists poured in. Entries arrived from six continents (all but Antarctica!). From throughout the U.S. and Canada. From South Africa and Zimbabwe. From Australia and New Zealand. From England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, the Netherlands. From India and Bangladesh. From Argentina. Writers and artists from ten years old to somewhere in their nineties sent poems, original artwork, fiction, essays, photographs, and scripts.
​© Lisa A. McCombs - 2023
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