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Leila Summers

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in South Africa
May 29

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Leila Summers is an author, editor, and book coach with a love for all things creative and human. She specializes in the writing, editing, publishing, and promotion of books and currently runs her own publishing company. Leila is also a trained Heal Your Life® teacher. She has always had a passion for storytelling. It Rains in February: A Wife's Memoir of Love and Loss is her first book. She is busy writing and publishing a series of children’s picture books and hopes to one day finish her second memoir. ...more

Average rating: 3.67 · 567 ratings · 153 reviews · 3 distinct worksSimilar authors
It Rains in February: A Wif...

3.63 avg rating — 515 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
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“Sometimes the only reason for us to be somewhere else is to see things from a different perspective.”
Leila Summers

“Speak your truth with grace and integrity, even though it might upset some people. You never know who else, besides yourself, it might help.”
Leila Summers

“Sometimes in life, the happy ending unfolds, not through circumstances, but from what we learn from those circumstances.”
Leila Summers, It Rains in February: A Wife's Memoir of Love and Loss

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
Marcel Proust

“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
Wayne W. Dyer

“Sometimes the only reason for us to be somewhere else is to see things from a different perspective.”
Leila Summers

“An intelligent person can rationalize anything; a wise person doesn't try.”
Jen Knox, Chaos Magic

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
Rumi

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message 11: by Leila

Leila Summers If you enjoyed my book, please vote for it on Listmania!
http://www.goodreads.com/list/book/12...

Thanks!


message 10: by Leila

Leila Summers Ah, thanks Vince, hope you had a wonderful day!


Vincent Chough Hi Leila - Just trying to spread some good cheer and fun around. Happy Valentine's Day!
Vince


Christine Hatfield thanks for being my friend


message 7: by Leila

Leila Summers Woohoo!! My book is now available on Kindle --
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0062EIRAI


message 6: by Leila

Leila Summers THANKS so much Stuart!

Stuart wrote: "Hello Leila,

Thank you, for the request and congratulations on the publication of, It Rains In February.

Best, Stuart"



Stuart Hello Leila,

Thank you, for the request and congratulations on the publication of, It Rains In February.

Best, Stuart


message 4: by Jesse

Jesse Hanson Thanks much for including me among your goodreads friends, Leila. Best of luck with your work and in all other things as well.
A Wife's Memoir of Love and Loss will be interesting, I'm sure. Meanwhile, I'd like to ask you to consider my spiritual allegory, Song of George: Portrait of an Unlikely Holy Man for your reading list. Namaste, jesse


message 3: by Leila (last edited Jun 01, 2011 06:14PM)

Leila Summers Hi David
Yes, the surfing is brilliant and the sea is warm all year round! Great book trailer and your website is awesome too. Congratulations.


message 2: by David

David Housholder Durban rocks. Hope to surf there some day.

http://youtu.be/-txvZGnRKlU


Carolyn Crane Thanks for inviting me to be Goodreads friends, and for the awesome Proust quote!


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