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Book Description:
A stunning 68-year-old Ford Model inspires you how to age--beautifully, healthfully, gracefully.
This world-famous beauty reveals the best-kept secrets behind her timeless face, toned body, and unstoppable spirit. With an upbeat, inspiring tone, she shows you how to enhance your natural beauty, increase your energy and live life to the fullest--at any age. You will learn her professional tips on skin care, make-up, exercise and nutrition, as well as her secrets for nourishing the soul and stimulating the mind. It’s a complete home regime filled with invigorating ideas and empowering exercises to beautify the body, strengthen the mind, and cherish the spirit . . . gracefully.
“Gracefully is simply wonderful. Valerie Ramsey is living proof that being older than 50 can be exciting, healthy, and sexy.”
-Christiane Northrup, MD
Author of Mother-Daughter Wisdom, The Wisdom of Menopause, and Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
“I like the snappy way this gal thinks. She sends out a powerful message!”
-Rue McClanahan, Actress
“Valerie Ramsey is the new face, style and attitude of aging. In Gracefully, she inspires us to bring out the best in ourselves - physically, mentally, and spiritually - in order to make the 50+ years the best years of our lives. A terrific, uplifting and informative book.”
-Ken Dychtwald Ph.D.
President and CEO of Age Wave
Author of Bodymind, Healthy Aging, Age Wave, The Power Years: A User's Guide to the Rest of Your Life
About the Authors:
Valerie Ramsey is a highly sought-after Ford Model, who has graced runways, print ads, and television. She has appeared on “Today” and “Extra,” among others, and has modeled for Lexus and St. John’s Knits. She is the Media and Public Relations Manager for Pebble Beach Resorts, the mother of six and the grandmother of eight.
Heather Hummel, Valerie’s daughter, is a writer whose work has appeared in Blue Ridge Anthology (along with David Baldacci and Rita Dove) and Messages of Hope and Healing. Heather is a graduate of the University of Virginia (Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies) and an active member of the International Women’s Writing Guild.
Product Details:
• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (April 6, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071546235
• ISBN-13: 978-0071546232
Book Tour and Media Events:
Leadership Conference
Key Speaker - conference on Sudden Cardiac Arrest
April 15, 2008 Capitol Hill, Washington, DC.
LA Times Festival of Books
Guest Authors at the Borders Books’ table
Saturday, April 26th, 2008, 4:00pm
Los Angeles, UCLA Campus
www.latimes.com/extras/festivalofbooks/
The Today Show
April 30, 2008, 10:00am
Third appearance
FOX NEWS with Neil Cavuto
Fox News - NYC
3:00 PM EST May 1, 2008
Books & Greetings
Talk and reading led by Valerie Ramsey
Wednesday, April 30, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
271 Livingston Street
Northvale, NJ 07647
Book Signing at Borders
Talk and reading led by Valerie Ramsey
Saturday, May 3, 2008, 2:00pm
365 Santana Row, San Jose, CA Suite 1030
www.santanarow.com
Voice of the Valley cable TV
San Francisco Bay Area
Week of April 20th
Barnes & Noble
Talk and signing led by Heather Hummel
Saturday, May 3, 2008, 2:00 p.m
1035 Emmel Street
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Canada Media Tour
May 7, 2008
CBC Television: The Steven & Chris Show
www.cbc.ca
Book Signing at Borders
Talk and reading led by Valerie Ramsey
Thursday, May 15, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
The Pavilions, 2339 Fair Oaks Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 2008
(916) 564-0168
Borders Stores Sacramento
KRON4 News
Saturday, May 17, 2008
www.kron4.com
Macy's West
Talk and signing led by Valerie Ramsey
San Francisco - Union Square
Saturday, May 17, 12-2:00pm
170 O’Farrell Street, 11th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94102
Book Signing at Book Passage
Wine & Cheese book signing with Valerie Ramsey
Saturday, May 17, 2008 6:30pm
Corte Madera, CA
www.bookpassage.com
Age Defy
Book signing; special guest
Tuesday, May 20, 2008, 3:00-4:30pm
3803 South Bascom Ave, Campbell, CA
(408) 369-4203
R.J. Julia Booksellers
Talk and signing with Valerie Ramsey and Heather Humel
Tuesday, May 30, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
768 Boston Post Road
Madison, CT 06443
(203) 245-3959
Borders Books & Music
Talk and signing with Valerie Ramsey and Heather Humel
Saturday, May 31, 2008, 4:00 p.m.
100 Main Street North
Southbury, CT 06488
Tattered Cover
Talk and signing with Valerie Ramsey and Heather Humel
Monday, June 2, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
2526 East Colfax Avenue
Denver, CO 80206
Rockaway Literary Festival
Rockaway, Queens, NY
Jun 8, 2008
Heather Hummel, Guest Author/Panelist
Book Signing
Quogue Library
Aug 3, 2008
90 Quogue ST, Quogue, Long Island, NY
(631) 653-4224
KRML Radio,
Regular segment on Gracefully
Thursdays 6:40pm
Carmel, CA
Publications:
Read more about Gracefully in these publications:
Body + Soul Magazine April
Health Magazine April
First for Women Magazine Late April or Early May
Real Simple May
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