🎂 Birthday Reflections — And a Whole Lot More

Posted July 16th, 2025
By Frank M. Anderson

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Today is my birthday. A year ago, I wasn’t sure I’d be here for this one.

The plan was simple: write The Cancer Diet, tell the story, leave a record—and then maybe disappear.
But things changed.

I’m still here. And it turns out the writing wasn’t an ending. It was a beginning.

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📕 The Cancer Diet — Free This Week on Amazon

To mark the occasion, the eBook version of The Cancer Diet is free from July 16–20 on Amazon.

This isn’t just a promotion—it’s a gift. For anyone navigating identity, illness, grief, addiction, or loss, I want this story to be something you can reach for.

Download it here:
👉 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F5WXRFT7

Paperback and hardcover editions are also available, and the audiobook is in the works.

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🚨 Kickstarter: Help The Cancer Diet Reach More Readers

I’ve launched a small Kickstarter campaign—not to fund a new book, but to help The Cancer Diet reach the audience it was written for. The goal is to purchase a professional review from Kirkus, which could help the memoir land in front of libraries, bookstores, and media outlets that otherwise wouldn’t see it.

Even $1 helps. And if you can’t pledge, sharing the link is just as meaningful.

Visit the Kickstarter here:
👉 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1277273585/help-the-cancer-diet-reach-more-readers-with-a-kirkus-review

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✍️ Project Updates

🧠 Think Stoopid

A satirical novella-in-progress about a world where intelligence is illegal, and a gifted child named Elber is sent to a prison for smart kids. It’s absurd, heartfelt, and taking shape quickly. I’m about halfway through outlining and scene work.

It features:

• A prison secretly run by kids
• A warden swap after a surprise inspection
• An estranged brother’s return
• A plan to escape into free-thinking territory
• A quiet love story in the midst of chaos

🏡 The Lying Years

Memoir #2 is underway.
If The Cancer Diet was about surviving sickness and shame, The Lying Years is about the childhood that came before it—the lies I told, the truths I buried, and the silence that shaped everything.

It’s painful to write. But it’s also freeing.

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🌐 A New Home for All of This

Fulcrum & Axis isn’t just a rebrand. It’s a metaphor.

A fulcrum is where pressure turns into motion.
An axis is what everything spins around—silent, steady, invisible.
To write, I’ve learned, is to balance both.

This site—https://fulcrumandaxis.com—is the new home for everything I make: the books, the essays, the fiction, the reflections, and even the coffee.

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💬 Why I’m Still Here

Because something kept pulling me forward.
Because the silence wasn’t working anymore.
Because some of you read The Cancer Diet and said it helped.
Because the voice that once wanted to vanish still had something to say.

If you’ve made it this far, thank you. Truly.

And if something here speaks to you—stay a while.

—Frank