Writing News: 

We’re in the countdown—just one month until the release of Every Given Day!

You can read the back cover copy here: https://authorcathygohlke.com/books/every-given-day/

Every Given Day is available for pre-order now from your favorite bookstore or online vendor. Pre-orders support authors by encouraging bookstores and libraries to stock their shelves in preparation for the book’s release day. Thank you so much for all you do to help spread the word of this new book!

As promised last month, here is more about the discovery of life-changing, lifesaving insulin:

Until the discovery and purification of insulin, diabetes, known as the wasting disease, was a death sentence. Dr. Frederick Banting, a Canadian surgeon working long and diligently with medical student Charles Best at the University of Toronto under Dr. Macleod, first isolated the hormone insulin in 1921. But there were problems: the insulin wasn’t pure, it wasn’t stable, they had no idea of the correct dosage or how that differed from person to person, and they had no way to make it in quantity or commercially available. Children continued to die. James Collip joined the team and helped to purify the pancreatic extract.

In 1922, Dr. Banting and others at the Toronto General Hospital rushed the purified extract to a ward of mostly comatose children—children dying from diabetic ketoacidosis. Daring to hope, they rapidly injected the children with the new and purified extract of insulin. By the time they injected the last child the first child to be injected opened their eyes. One by one the children woke from their comas.

Each time I read of that scene I think, It must have been like watching a resurrection! Death hovered menacingly at the door, but insulin threw it wide open, and life walked in.

Dr. Frederick Banting, Dr. James Collip, and Charles Best sold the patent for insulin to the University of Toronto for $1.00. Dr. Banting declared, “Insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world.”

The selfless act of these men for the good of others inspired me. Writing this story, so close to my family’s heart after my granddaughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, was an act of love.

More Writing News: 

I’ve just turned in my newest manuscript to Tyndale House Publishers—on time!!! Thank you so much for your prayers and encouragement for this work, which will probably be released in the Fall of 2027. I can’t wait to share this story with you!

What I’m Reading:

The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis,

by Maria Smilios

The true story of Black nurses from the south during the Great Depression and WWII, recruited with false promises of good pay and career opportunities to work at Sea View Hospital on Staten Island. Isolated and battling racism amid appalling conditions, they valiantly cared for the poorest of the poor, who lovingly claimed them as their Black Angels. Though they helped to discover the cure for tuberculosis, their contributions were effectively erased from history—until now. A deeply researched account, this nonfiction was hard to put down.

Enjoy the remaining days of July. Take time to breathe, relax, and enjoy the beauties and wonders of God’s creation.