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Lonie McMichael

Lonie McMichael

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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.

The Maker of Worlds

The Maker of Worlds

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<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 14px;color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="font-weight:700;font-style:italic;">If you had the chance to remake the world, what kind of world would you choose?</span></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:-4px 0px 14px;color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><span>When tragedy strikes Lucas Mack's young life, he desperately yearns to escape its sorrow, and takes an improbable leap through the mythical maelstrom. Rather than splashing down on the far side like his neighbors, he's transported to a magical realm where he has the power to redefine not only who he is, but the world in which he resides.</span></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:-4px 0px 14px;color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><span>As he stumbles about trying to find his way, he meets Mia, an equally troubled fellow pilgrim. With the help of a mystical guide and an aging wizard, they navigate the enchanted land while learning to control their newfound powers. Yet this realm is more complex than they expected, with seasoned sorcerers who've been corrupted by the sinister side of magic.</span></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:-4px 0px 14px;color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><span>Limited by natural law and seduced by magic's power, they are tested as never before. Will the gift of magic bring renewed hope or drive them to the edge of the void?</span></p>

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<p align="center"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">&quot;...a useful introduction to a burgeoning movement...will make readers question their attitudes about overweight people.&quot;</span><br /><span style="font-size:10pt;"><strong>Publishers Weekly</strong></span></span></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><strong><em>&quot;Acceptable Prejudice? Fat, Rhetoric and Social Justice</em></strong> is an ideal book for people new to the concept of fat acceptance. McMichael writes a book that will answer all questions about this movement; she describes and explains the aesthetic and psychological issues surrounding the movement as well as its political, academic and health manifestations. Thus, this book is a veritable encyclopedia that explains the what, when, why and how of fat acceptance in ways palatable to both the serious scholar and the curious layperson. If you have anything to do with fat acceptance, <strong><em>Acceptable Prejudice</em></strong> should have a place on your bookshelf.&quot;<br /><strong>Erec Smith, Ph.D.</strong><br /> Professor of Rhetoric, Fat acceptance blogger</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center">&quot;Prejudices can only appear acceptable so long as we fail to see them (and their connnections to each other) for their true impact in our lives. Lonie McMichael clearly exposes how weight prejudice interacts with racism, sexism, classism, ageism, and healthism—and how a wholehearted challenge to the former also necessarily addresses all of the ways we're excluded.&quot;</p> <p align="center"><strong>Marilyn Wann</strong><br /> author of <strong><em>Fat!So?</em></strong></p>