Chipmunka has been awarded Arts Council funding to publish five books between April 2015 and January 2016. Every author that follows the standard submission process was considered for the Chipmunka Classics imprint and we now have our five incredible titles ready to be published.

The second Chipmunka Classics title comes from poet Peter Vealey.

Here’s what Peter had to say about his new title….

This is my third book of poetry titled, “Poetry and Assorted Pieces of Clothing”
Written throughout my life, hopes, sojourn and failures.
A mix of variety of places and people.
The Political, the social, the animal in me.
Dedicated to Poetry Kind and Human Kind.
Sixty Years of Dreaming of a better world.
The most general and true to my spirit
Of loving humanity,
Yet without a clue where to find it.

Peter’s Chipmunka Classics title ‘Poetry and Assorted Pieces of Clothing’ is available now from the chipmunka shop ….

https://chipmunkapublishing.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2642

You can find some amazing videos of Peter’s poetry on the Chipmunka Classics YouTube channel here..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOs9bVcmVV8&list=PLUQubpjUZcwOi2_QWSnJMrFEVTRHzS2In

We have now launched our social media channels to promote the Classics authors and their work.  You can find Chipmunka Classics on…

Twitter
YouTube
Facebook
& Google+

So make sure you ‘like’, ‘subscribe’, ‘follow’ and ‘friend’ us to stay up to date with the Chipmunka Classics releases.

Best wishes always,

Jason Pegler

CEO Chipmunka Publishing

You can find more info on my website http://www.jasonpegler.com

or contact me on Twitter: @jasonpegler   or   Google+: +JasonPegler 

Chipmunka has been awarded Arts Council funding to publish five books between April 2015 and January 2016. Every author that follows the standard submission process was considered for the Chipmunka Classics imprint and we now have our five incredible titles ready to be published.

The first title comes from Chipmunka author Erica Loberg.  Erica was born in 1977 and raised in Los Angeles, California. She received her Bachelor’s in English from Columbia University. Erica was diagnosed with chronic hypomania, Bipolar II, in 2005 and continues down the road of psychiatric treatment. Currently, she lives in downtown LA and works with the mentally ill.

Erica’s Chipmunka Classics title ‘What Men Should Know About Women’ is available now from the chipmunka shop ….

https://chipmunkapublishing.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2639

You can find some amazing videos of Erica’s poetry on the Chipmunka Classics YouTube channel here..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyRhvJ-Zfzo&list=PLUQubpjUZcwOrEBGYsSr7mPwwxjNy__sX

We have now launched our social media channels to promote the Classics authors and their work.  You can find Chipmunka Classics on…

Twitter
YouTube
Facebook
& Google+

So make sure you ‘like’, ‘subscribe’, ‘follow’ and ‘friend’ us to stay up to date with the Chipmunka Classics releases.

Best wishes always,

Jason Pegler

CEO Chipmunka Publishing

You can find more info on my website http://www.jasonpegler.com

or contact me on Twitter: @jasonpegler   or   Google+: +JasonPegler 

Chipmunka has been awarded Arts Council funding to publish five books between April 2015 and January 2016. Every author that follows the standard submission process was considered for the Chipmunka Classics imprint and we now have our five incredible titles ready to be published.

We have now launched our social media channels to promote the Classics authors and their work.  You can find Chipmunka Classics on…

Twitter
YouTube
Facebook
& Google+

So make sure you ‘like’, ‘subscribe’, ‘follow’ and ‘friend’ us to stay up to date with the Chipmunka Classics releases.

Best wishes always,

Jason Pegler

CEO Chipmunka Publishing

You can find more info on my website http://www.jasonpegler.com

or contact me on Twitter: @jasonpegler   or   Google+: +JasonPegler 

I thought that this week I’d give you a bit more of my personal background and explain how writing and publishing has benefited me and my mental health.

In 2001 I found a way out. I discovered that writing down my innermost thoughts and feelings was cathartic and hugely therapeutic process. A process that allowed me to explain and examine my chaotic mind when I thought no-one else was listening. I let it all hang out, and when I wrote my autobiography, A Can of Madness, I poured my heart out on to each and every page. It was extremely intense but, overall, an extremely rewarding experience. Writing saved my life and enabled me to put my manic depression behind me once and for all.

I urge you to trust the writing process and just let the things in your head just pour out onto the page like I did.

I got published, and as a published author I rediscovered the confidence in myself that had long been stolen, and when I said published author, instead of manic depressive, it gave me credibility. In fact it made me interesting to talk to and not just a curiosity to have around. My humiliation left me and it was replaced by a rediscovered sense of purpose.

I hadn’t foreseen this added benefit, and I used the drive it gave me to found Chipmunka Publishing, a publishing company dedicated to helping sufferers of mental illness to find their voice and free themselves from their illness and the emotions it carries.

In the past 12 years I have helped hundreds of people just like you to write, publish and sell their own books. During that time I have learned the rules to making this both a successful process for catharsis and healing, but also how to take the embryo of an idea and turn it into a successful career.

In addition to my story with Chipmunka, I have helped dozens of mental illness sufferers re-join society as business owners, the founders of charities, social entrepreneurs and in many other ways that person defined as success.

If you would like to get in touch or are thinking about writing/publishing your own book then don’t hesitate. I’m here to help.

Wishing you all a healthy and happy week,

Jason Pegler

You can find more info on my website http://www.jasonpegler.com

or contact me on Twitter: @jasonpegler   or   Google+: +JasonPegler 

Zekria donates many of his titles to Chipmunka as free eBooks in order to help our social goals and spread the word about mental health.

To find out more about Zekria and his eBook ‘Dissecting Devon’ read on or visit his page on our shop.

If you would like to join Zekria in becoming a published chipmunka author and an advocate for mental health empowerment then take a look at our submission guidelines here

Description

‘Dissecting Devon’…
Is about the clash involving me as a city person, and the countryside…

Shyly implies the tension between what is English and what is ethnic…

Is deliberately strange, intentionally macabre…

For poetry cannot succeed…

If it chooses to be merely ordinary and conventional, bourgeois and unforgivably tame…

About the Author

Zekria Ibrahimi (born in 1959) is defined by his schizophrenia. It first hit him long ago, in his late teens. He is fifty four years old now, grey and frail, almost a pensioner, with all the aches and injuries of age, incontinent and impotent, lame and with constant tinnitus, and he does not always want to remember how, as an adolescent in the late 1970’s, he suddenly became afraid of everything surrounding him, and, worst of all, of himself. He would run around the countryside and knock at the doors of strangers because he feared the apocalypse was pursuing him … He would pick up rubbish outside in alleys and streets and hoard it in his not very palatial lodgings … He was always wandering away from home, searching for … what would never be found again … the straight route, the level way … He was a tramp, freezing during the nights in public toilets where he had various unsavoury insects as company on the cold concrete …

There were years of pain when his schizophrenia became almost his only companion- albeit a sadistic one, punishing him even as he hugged it. Perhaps, to echo both R. D. Laing and Emily Dickinson, it is the entire globe, it is general society, that is truly insane. Schizophrenics simply burrow all too deeply under the surface. They reach the very core of the savage reality in us all. Most varnish over the anarchic truth within through the superficial sham paraded as ‘civilization’. Schizophrenics prefer to be uncomfortably honest barbarians.

Eventually, after much psychotic shouting on Hammersmith Broadway, the hapless Zekria was confined at the Charing Cross unit in the West London Mental Health Trust. Following the unsafe unstable freedom of his schizophrenia, came the restrictions of Section 3. He would not have survived without the multi- racial compassion of the individual doctors and nurses in Charing Cross. Yet the overall SYSTEM remains an ogre of rules and restraints, and the INSTITUTION of psychiatry can be as cold and vicious as in the days of lobotomy and insulin shock.

He is an extreme liberal socialist, despairing of the tendencies towards cruel inequality and vicious intolerance across this planet.

Zekria is all too elderly, but still he muses about being locked up, drugged up, about how, with schizophrenia, the treatment can be worse than the disease…

Wishing you all a healthy and happy week,

Jason Pegler

You can find more info on my website http://www.jasonpegler.com

or contact me on Twitter: @jasonpegler   or   Google+: +JasonPegler