Christian Speaker Services :: Letting Go Blog Tour

Sandy Hancock will be conducting a Blog Tour during August 5-19, 2009 for her book, Letting Go: Pathway to an Amazing Life (iUniverse).

1. What is a blog tour any way? Please click here.

2.) If you have a blog, podcast, web site, internet radio show or e-zine and would like to host Sandy Hancock as a special guest during the tour, please click here.

3.) For more information about Letting Go by Sandy Hancock, please click here.

4.) To contact the blog tour coordinator, please click here.

5.) For a Blog Tour Itinerary, please click here.

1.) What is a Blog Tour any way?

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. Many are associated with online newsletters or e-zines. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. As of September 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 106 million blogs. That means on any given day there are millions of blog owners who must post fresh and original content on their blog or in their online newsletter.

A Blog Tour is an opportunity for blog owners to host special guests on their blog. This hosting can be carried out in various ways from posting personalized Q&A, to allowing the guest to write a journal entry for the appointed day. Some special guests are asked to respond to reader comments, and others appear in live chat rooms associated with the particular blog. An organized Blog Tour also allows readers to travel from one blog to another with the special guest. When combined with the release of a new book or product, a Blog Tour can introduce an author to countless readers around the world.

2.) We invite you to host Sandy Hancock as a special guest on your blog, podcast, web site, internet radio show or e-zine during August 5-19, 2009.

Please note that a limited number of blog tour appearances will be available, so schedule your date now.

3.) What is the book about?

Letting Go: Pathway to an Amazing Life by Sandy Hancock (iUniverse)

Balloons and streamers! Having joy in our hearts. Finding satisfaction in life. Discovering the picture of happiness we have in our minds. These are things we all pursue. But what path does this pursuit take us on?

There are many choices in life. Travel with Sandy as she leads us on her journey to find hope and what she discovered to be the pathway to an amazing life.

Excerpts . . .

"You may have heard it said that “life is a bowl of cherries.” So you wonder why you were left with the pits. Life can be hard and often is not fair. Sometimes the pain can be as overwhelming as standing on the sand at a beach and being hit by a huge wave. Your heart cries out in agony, yet no one hears."

"Choices--some I had made were good but too many led to a kind of disorienting pain. I believed I was walking down the path I should have been on. Yet life did not seem to go as I expected, or at least not what I had hoped. My dreams were not coming true. Why was life so hard?"

"This pattern of feeling lonely and finding relief with a new relationship followed me much of my life. I had a desire to have the type of family once again that I had known as a child. I wanted to be loved and to give love. I desired to belong somewhere and to feel safe. These are all good desires--desires that God created us to have.

However, I did not realize these desires had become more important to me than my relationship with God. Instead of first seeking His desires for me, I selfishly sought what I wanted, relegating God to the fringes of my life. I wanted God on my own terms and was convinced that in order to be loved I had to do things my own way, not God’s way. I had become trapped in a faulty way of thinking."

Sandy Hancock

About the Author

Sandy Hancock has been a student of God’s word since childhood. From first grade into college, with the exception of two years, she attended a Christian school in which she had daily Bible study. Throughout life she has studied the Bible in her personal reading, Bible study groups as well as regularly attending church. She has also been a student in the School of Hardknocks. Life has offered many lessons. Some have been more painful than others. These lessons brought her a greater understanding of who God is and His love. As she walks with the Lord He brings her wisdom and knowledge.

She decided to become a writer after a “wilderness experience” occurred in her life. A “wilderness experience” is a time of hardship in which there is nothing we can do to help ourselves; a time in which there is no other choice but to let go and trust God. At this point she completely surrendered her life to the Lord. She let go of making decisions based on what she wanted and started making decisions based on what she believes glorifies the Lord. The Lord changed her life and set her on a path that has led to joy and contentment. Now she wants to share what she has discovered on this path.

She was born in Anaheim, California on September 1, 1961. As a child, she lived in Fullerton, California until her ninth grade year at which time she moved to Durant, Oklahoma. She currently lives in Southern California and has two sons named David and Jeremiah. She attended Fresno State University and received her Bachelor’s degree in Business in 1998. Also in 1998 she earned a Toastmaster Competent Communicator award. She has worked in sales in the real estate, advertising and insurance industries. She has also taught at Mount San Jacinto Community College, Menifee, CA.