Leaving Yourself Behind: An Inspirational Workbook for Your Gifts to the Future

by Dale Bailey

Overall To share very compelling and exciting true stories about people who, regardless of the size of their incomes or their estates, or even their state of health, have found ways to pass on the joy of giving to future generations by simply leaving lasting and measurable legacies of continuing support for their communities. There are also stories in this book that seem to confirm the theory that loving your neighbor as yourself is a principle that is cherished in most religions. However, being inspired by other people s actions is only a portion of the purpose of this book. The real intention is to inspire action on the part of the reader. Therefore, this book also contains step-by-step instructions to establish lasting legacies for families and for charities. Use the tested instructions, and you will be Leaving Yourself Behind. One of the great mysteries of life is finding a magic formula to make it truly meaningful for you and me and others. Some of us who have lived a long time are still looking to find ways to make a measurable and lasting difference to the communities where we live and, in some small way, help make the world a better place. With that intention the following chapters are presented to you.

140 pages, Spiral-bound

Published May 30, 2012

About the author

Dale was born in West Virginia in 1968, and grew up in a town called Princeton, just north of the Virginia line. His stories have appeared in lots of places—The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Amazing Stories, Sci-Fiction, Lightspeed Magazine, and various anthologies. Several of them have been nominated for awards, and “Death and Suffrage,” later filmed as part of Showtime’s television anthology series Masters of Horror, won the International Horror Guild Award.

In 2003, Golden Gryphon Press collected his stories as The Resurrection Man’s Legacy and Other Stories. Two novels, The Fallen and House of Bones, came out from Signet books around the same time. A third novel—Sleeping Policemen, written with with his friend Jack Slay, Jr.—came out in 2006. He has also written a study of haunted-house fiction called American Nightmares.

He lives in North Carolina with his wife and daughter.