Best-Selling Author Scores Again With Entertaining Book for Aging Boomers

While the nation debates how best to provide a living for seniors through Social Security, author Stanley Baldwin wants them also to have a life.

Portland, OR (PRWEB) March 22, 2005 -- Eight challenges face people as they age, and best-selling author Stanley Baldwin addresses each in his new book, "A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to Old Age." Subtitled, Life Changes After 50," the book begins by dealing with the denial phase: old age is a state of mind." Not quite! It then addresses grouchiness, fear of death, coping with change, and threats to ones independence. One chapter explores the sense of loss that comes as more and more friends and loved ones die. Baldwin keeps the approach humorous and entertaining. For example, his chapter on overcoming retirement depression" is entitled, What I Want To Be When I Grow Old." The final chapter is, I Want To Finish Well."

Write what you know," is an adage Baldwin has pressed on other authors he has mentored over the years. Now, after recently ending a long denial about his own aging, Baldwin has put this advice into practice. The result is a deeply personal and highly entertaining book.

Baldwin expects this, his 21st book, to join his four other best-selling titles, which have sold some 300,000 copies each. Its just a natural," he says. Theres a huge demographic out there with droves of baby boomers now becoming senior citizens."

With the book yet to be released (April 1), more than 300 of the largest senior citizen ministries in the country have already requested review copies.

One of the surprises encountered in pre-publication sales was how often older people bought copies for their middle-aged children. It seems they want the 'kids to better understand what their folks experience. And what lies ahead for them in just a few years.

Baldwin writes as a committed Christian, but his low-key style has gained this book pre-publication acceptance not only in churches but in service clubs, retirement communities, and the society in general. The book has won endorsements from a variety of leaders both in the United States and abroad.

Recent block-buster best-seller author Jerry Jenkins (Left Behind) says, Stan Baldwin was my boss and pastor when I was a pup, and he taught me many lessons about work and writing and life. Still at the top of his game in A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to Old Age, hes now mentoring me to finish well. Youll laugh, youll identify, youll 'aha, and youll read it from cover to cover."

Author Marion Stroud of Bedford, England says, Most of us dont think about being over the hill until were rolling briskly down the other side. Having read Stanley Baldwins new book, Im now better prepared to make the latter years of my life the crowning years."

"A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to Old Age" becomes available April 1 through Barnes and Noble, Borders and other better bookstores nationwide, as well as online from Amazon, CBD, ivpress.com, and stanleybaldwin.com.

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