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Wednesday, January 28, 2026

The Write Reads Blog Tour Spotlight ~ Beyond Blind Blaming by Kevin D. St.Clergy

You're not failing at solving your problems. You're succeeding at solving the wrong problems perfectly.

This breakthrough insight from entrepreneur Kevin St.Clergy explains why so many successful business leaders feel stuck despite working harder than ever. After building and selling his own company, Kevin discovered that most entrepreneurs aren't lazy, unfocused, or lacking in drive—they're simply solving the wrong problems with remarkable precision.

Is your “marketing problem” actually a conversion issue? Is your “team loyalty crisis” really a leadership development gap? Is your “cash flow challenge” actually a pricing strategy flaw?
In "Beyond Blind Blaming," Kevin reveals how even the smartest entrepreneurs get trapped in what he calls "Blind Blaming"—unconsciously attributing problems to the wrong causes while the real issues remain hidden.

Through his revolutionary RCD Method™ (Reflect, Connect, Decide), you'll learn to identify what's actually holding your business back. Kevin shows you how to break free from the Blame Loop™ that keeps you investing time, energy, and money into solving problems that aren't the real problem.

With case studies from entrepreneurs who broke through revenue ceilings, resolved team issues, and scaled successfully, this book provides the clarity to stop spinning your wheels and start making progress on what actually matters. You'll learn why your current solutions aren't working and how to Make a F***ing Decision (MFD) that finally moves the needle.

Your breakthrough isn't about working harder—it's about working on the right problem. When you finally see what's been hiding in plain sight, everything changes.

2025 The Write Reads Book Tour Round Up

9 tour reviews this year though I haven't finished 5 of them yet.

It's been a hard year.

I also did 16 spotlights which I included after the review list. There are several spotlight tours that I wanted to read the books, but just didn't have the time and/or energy.

The Write Reads Blog Tour Spotlight ~ Take Me Back by Amanda Rodriguez

Take Me Back is a powerful poetry collection by Amanda Rodriguez that explores the raw, emotional journey of heartbreak, healing, and self-discovery. Through deeply personal poems, Rodriguez opens up about the pain of toxic love and the profound strength that comes from self-awareness. This poignant collection is divided into parts that reflect the stages of love and loss, offering a relatable experience for anyone who has ever faced the complexities of emotional recovery.
Take Me Back is a must-read for anyone on a journey of self-healing and transformation. Whether you're navigating a breakup, overcoming past trauma, or simply looking to understand the process of emotional growth, this book offers a comforting reminder that healing is possible - and that you are not alone.

The Write Reads Blog Tour Book Spotlight ~ Reenactments by Tony Iezzi, Ph.D. and Melanie P. Duckworth, Ph.D.

Break the Behavior Patterns That Keep You Stuck in Trauma, Stress, and Everyday Life
Do you feel stuck facing the same challenges repeatedly? Maybe it’s a job that drains your energy, a relationship that never seems to work, or habits you just can’t seem to break. If so, you’re not alone—and there’s a reason for it.
Patterns formed in childhood shape the choices we make as adults. These patterns often become automatic responses to trauma, stress, and everyday life. We call these reenactments—deeply ingrained habits in your brain, body, and mind that lead to recurring adverse outcomes.
In this groundbreaking book, psychologists Tony Iezzi and Melanie Duckworth introduce a compelling new framework for breaking reenactments.
You’ll learn how to recognize these patterns and replace them with healthier, more empowering choices. Using the Reenactment Decision Matrix and a unique 5-step analytic tool, this guidebook will help you:
Identify your reenactments
Understand their origins and make conscious choices that improve you in the present
Deepen your empathy for others and contribute to a more compassionate world.

If you’re ready to transform your life, then Reenactments is your next step.

Saturday Spotlight ~ The Write Reads Blog Tour: Good Trouble by Forest Issac Jones

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TWR Blog Tour Spotlight: Good Trouble by Forest Issac Jones

Good Trouble will show the strong connection between the Black Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the Catholic Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland – specifically the influence of the Montgomery to Selma march on the 1969 Belfast to Derry march through oral history, based on numerous interviews of events leading up to both marches and afterwards. This is close to the author’s heart as both of his parents marched to integrate lunch counters and movie theatres in Salisbury, North Carolina, in 1963 as college students. His mother was at the 1963 March to Washington where Martin Luther King gave his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech.

Award winning author Julieann Campbell (On Bloody Sunday) wrote the introduction for Good Trouble, looking back at her times growing up in Derry, in the heart of the Catholic Civil Rights Movement. Jones travelled to Dublin, Belfast and Derry to conduct interviews for the book. In all, he did fifteen interviews with people who were involved in the movement in Northern Ireland (including Billy McVeigh – featured in the BAFTA winning documentary, Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland) and in the United States (including Richard Smiley and Dr. Sheyann Webb-Christburg – both were at Bloody Sunday in Alabama and on the Selma to Montgomery march among others). Jones was also able to talk with Eamonn McCann (he took part in the Belfast to Derry march in 1969; he was the John Lewis of Northern Ireland).

Unlike most books on Northern Ireland, this goes into detail about the connection and the influence between the two movements. Also, most focus on Bloody Sunday and not the pivotal incidents at Burntollet Bridge and the Battle of the Bogside. Building off of unprecedented access and interviews with participants in both movements, Jones crafts a gripping and moving account of these pivotal years for both countries.

Life Interrupted: Dr. Dua's Survival Guide ~ Book Review

This is the story of my younger brother, Dr. Manu Dua, who battled oral cancer for almost two years.

These are a series of blogs that he penned when faced with his own mortality at the young age of 34. He had accepted and made peace with his fate. These blogs are filled with much depth and wisdom. It chronicles his realization of life and what and who truly matters.

May these blogs serve as a gentle reminder to not take life for granted. That no matter what we plan, things are out of our control, call it our fate or destiny. That through the darkest of times, there is still hope, and the power of the human spirit through adversities prevails.

May you find comfort in his words should you or your loved ones walk this difficult road.

-Dr. Parul Dua Makkar

And She Was Never the Same Again ~ Book Review

And She Was Never the Same Again is about you. It is about your family and your friends, everyone you've ever met, and all the strangers you have yet to meet. It takes you on a journey of gains and losses that stretch generations, cultures, identities, and decades of time.It awakens you to the inevitable and makes you look at things most people want to avoid seeing. It explores near-death experiences; medical, individual, and intergenerational trauma; the stigmatized death of a partner; perfectionism; athletics; first loves; and the gaping holes that become permanent fixtures within us when those we love the most die. You will feel, you will learn, you will grown, and you will never be the same again.

Friday Featured Spotlight ~ TWR Ultimate Blog Tour: Belly Woman

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Belly Woman

May, 2014. Sierra Leone is ranked the country with the highest death rate of pregnant women in the world. The same month, Ebola crosses in from neighbouring Guinea. Arriving a few weeks later, Dr. Benjamin Black finds himself at the centre of an exponential Ebola outbreak. From impossible decisions on the maternity ward to moral dilemmas at the Ebola Treatment Centres: one mistake, one error of judgment, could spell disaster.

An eye-opening work of reportage and advocacy, Belly Woman chronicles the inside journey through an unfolding global health crisis and the struggle to save the lives of young mothers. As Black reckons with the demons of the past, he must try to learn the lessons for a different, more resilient, future.

Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie

At a remote little inn not far from the Kansas homestead of Laura Ingalls Wilder lived the Bender family. These pioneers welcomed unwary visitors with jackrabbit stew and a sledgehammer to the skull.

In time, their apple orchard gave up its secrets—a burial ground for their mutilated victims, each stripped of their possessions. The devilish enterprise on “Hell’s Half-Acre” would earn the Bloody Benders an undying place in the annals of American infamy. But it was the mysterious fate of eldest daughter, Kate, that would make them the stuff of mythic campfire prairie tales.

Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie is part of Bloodlands, a chilling collection of short page-turning historical narratives from bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter. Spanning a century in our nation’s murderous past, Schechter resurrects nearly forgotten tales of madmen and thrill-killers that dominated the most sensational headlines of their day.