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Lonie McMichael has wanted to be a writer since age 3.

For many years she practiced her trade as a technical writer in the high tech industry. After going to graduate school, she found her calling in fat studies, exploring the fat individual’s experience. Graduating with a Ph.D. in technical communication and rhetoric, she wrote her dissertation on the medical rhetoric surrounding the “obesity epidemic” and how such rhetoric legitimizes fat prejudice—topics which have become two separate books, Talking Fat and Acceptable Prejudice? (the latter to be published by Pearlsong Press in 2013).

She is currently teaching professional and technical writing at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and working on her third book about things fat.

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Countless years ago, measured in thousands, the Gods came first. Monstrous creations were born of their frivolity. Like the Gods, some of the creations were peaceful, others not. Their duty to preserve the earth completed once more, however, the day came that the Gods had to leave earth. Unleashed and with loose regulation, the abominable creations left behind multiplied. In their midst, another conception came to be, and his kind would exist absolutely outside of the God’s purview. Unmated, alone, and untrusting of others, Chatran was charged to go to a place and protect the father of a great child, yet unborn. This duty, however, was unknown to the most cognizant part of Chatran. Only the Beast, who resided within him, knew. As a result, the Beast led Chatran to Walhalla, North Dakota. Although his initial charge was to protect the father he found there, Chatran also gained a mate and Pack. With them, Chatran also found a new way forward, and started on a course that would lead to – New Alpha Rising: Ascension.

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"McMichael provides a thorough and compelling expose of the prejudice that underlies obesity rhetoric and a compassionate, tenable solution. This book may make you angry, but it will also give you hope." Linda Bacon, Ph.D. author of Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight"Prejudice based on weight can act like a Gordian knot: loosen one part of the mess and other strands of belief pull tighter. Lonie McMichael's brilliant analysis cuts through the conundrum. This book's big-picture view of weight-centrism as both a rhetorical success and a real-world failure will be endlessly useful to me as a fat activist and a person who wants to live healthily and happily in my very own body." Marilyn Wann author of Fat!So?"Words are the building blocks of our lives. The war on fat people that has been waged for the past two decades has been a war of words. Dr. McMichael writes eloquently and critically about those fighting words, helping the reader understand what power structures lie behind our most commonly accepted concepts. If we do not understand the how and the why behind speech, we may never know truth. But when we trace the history of discourses, we open up possibilities of making a better place through better conversations. Talking Fat is just that conversation starter." Pattie Thomas, Ph.D. author of Taking Up Space"Dr. McMichael does a wonderful job of explaining the difference between the way fat is talked about and the reality of fat's effect on health. This is a must read for fat folks, health practitioners and anyone concerned with fair and equal treatment for all people." Golda Poretsky, HHC author of Stop Dieting Now: 25 Reasons To Stop, 25 Ways To Heal

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