I was interviewed by John Kremer. He is the author of 1001 ways to market your book
and he speaks at conferences all across the globe. This interview is about some
of my successful book marketing ideas that John has seen me implement.

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David A. Koop (COPE) is a bestselling author, keynote speaker, and a Certified World Class Speaking Coach. His life has been anything but typical. He ran away from home when he was fifteen, yet became a successful serial entrepreneur by his early twenties. He never graduated from high school or college, yet taught law as an adjunct professor of law at the Denver University College of Law.

He was given a cancer diagnosis and told to get his affairs in order, and he once again proved his resolve and beat the odds. Today, David shares his life stories and the keys he has discovered to unlocking the life that we all truly desire.

His bestselling book, Cancer It’s a Good Thing I Got It!, is full of humor and occasional grief. In his book and his speeches, David shares adventures from his life and the experiences that formed a man able to battle and defeat terminal cancer with an unwavering positive attitude. David shares ideas and tools that inspire and enable audiences to make changes in their lives in order to live the life they dream of.

Together with his wife, Carrie, David founded The Someday Group, dedicated to helping men and women recognize that TODAY is the someday they have been waiting for! Their workshops teach people how to have meaningful and lasting partnerships at home and in the workplace.

Check out their website at http://www.somedaygroup.com.

But Koop was not giving in. He had waited a long time to be a dad, and a cancerous mass at the base of his spine was just an obstacle, not a life sentence. Cancer: It’s a Good Thing I Got It! is not only Koop’s story of his cancer, but also the introspection which healed emotional wounds that were as real as cancer. Koop started to see the positive aspects of his illness, rather than the panic that sought to steal what moments he had left.

Koop instructs friends and family of cancer victims how to treat those who have cancer, what cancer victims need to hear, and how to give them support. He writes about dealing with pain – chronic, unbearable physical pain – and depression. This book is honest and inspiring, and the author doesn’t sugarcoat the realities of chemotherapy or his surgeries…

Sheli Ellsworth, Portland Book Review

USA Book News is featuring Cancer It’s a Good Thing I Got It!  Among its Hot & Newsworthy in the world of Books. Author David A. Koop is very excited to receive this honor, “I hope that this recognition for my book will help expand the reader base.”

There are messages in the book that can benefit everyone weather they have a serious illness in their life or not. The fact that the story involves cancer could lead some readers to steer away from the book, but the book offers so much more for readers who take the time to explore this man’s journey and his lessons learned along the way.

You can find out more about Mr. Koop and his book at www.somedaygroup.com

I have to tell you… I really do enjoy getting to meet readers. In this case soon to be readers of my book. It was a fun evening with good food, great wine along with a reading from my book. Many of the audience members were very engaged so much so that the question and answer session lasted much longer than expected. It’s easy to lose track of time when you are having so much fun. The location was instrumental in creating that dynamic audience experience.

As you know I have been trying to do a little out of the box thinking when it comes to sharing my message. This night’s location was a very cool wine bar, Santiam Wine Company. Located in Salem Oregon they have a very committed group of regular customers who now benefit from their newer bigger location. No longer just the premier wine shop in the mid-Willamette valley, you can now wine and dine as the larger location allows for top notch bistro fare and special events like a bestselling author stopping by for a reading.

We got to meet and chat with a lot of people and have been able to stay in touch with a few including Ken and Candy. He is a skipper; yes I am a sucker for any boat with canvass (maybe even a modern equivalent). Candy is the CEO of a pharmaceutical company still putting her shoulder to the grindstone and keeping those jobs in the USA.

One very special member of the audience has retained me to provide the Keynote address for their annual conferences.

 Debbie thanks for making it such a great time and we look forward to seeing you again soon.

Book Reviews and Award Contest

RE: #5378 –  Four out of Five Stars

Reviewed by Lori M for Readers Favorite

Naturally, the title was the first thing to jump out at me. Why would anyone be glad that they had cancer? Then as I read David Koop’s story, I understood completely what he meant by the title. The reason I picked this book up is because I had melanoma last year and was seeing an oncologist this year expecting a diagnosis of some sort of cancer. Several months and dozens of tests later, I’m happy to say that I did not have cancer, but like David Koop, I had started to prioritize things in my life and get ready just in case.

I can picture the author when he talks about thinking he had won the lottery only to discover that his number was 14 and not the winning number 41, then later to find out that getting 5 out of 6 numbers only netted him 631 dollars instead of 12,500,000 dollars. He laughs about being mad over winning 631 dollars. He finally had put things into perspective.

While reading the book, I could definitely relate to the author. A Type A business professional who is told that he might not live much longer certainly has to humble himself and get a new purpose. I’m glad that Koop was able to undergo that type of self-assessment that makes him a fighter instead of a victim. It was good, too, that he found someone to share his life with, because that’s certainly an incentive to keep living.

            David Koop, by his own admission, is a very lucky man. Despite a difficult childhood, a painful divorce, and any number of personal setbacks, Koop was always able to rebound, pick himself up, and move on to even greater successes over the course of his career.

            In his personal life, Koop also reached what was, for him, the pinnacle of  success, with the birth of his son. But that achievement looked short-lived, as Koop was diagnosed with an often fatal form of cancer. Determined to see his son grow up, Koop underwent surgery and treatments that left him weakened, sick, and unrecognizable even to himself. But he didn’t die, and today he and his new wife Carrie (also a cancer survivor) are motivational speakers who want the world to know that where there’s life and love, there’s always hope.

            Cancer: It’s a Good Thing I Got It is written in a conversational style that most readers will enjoy; it’s as if they were sitting down in the author’s kitchen and sharing a cold beverage (or two) with him. It’s more than just the story of Koop’s battle with cancer, however. It offers Koop’s personal philosophy of life and how to live it, and is filled with entertaining anecdotes from his life and the many career paths he has followed, from working in the timber industry to becoming the nation’s “guru” of the prepaid legal services business, as well as many others.

            Cancer: It’s a Good Thing I Got It provides those facing any kind of physical or other adversity a vision of hopefulness and restoration. And it offers a deeply moving portrait of a father’s love for his son, and one man’s unfailing ability to believe in the power of something greater than himself. 

Joe Meirzwa,  Colorado