How to Win
1. Preorder The Bipolar Addict on Amazon
2, Forward your receipt to thebipolaraddict@gmail.com by June 2.
I will choose winners at random on June 2. Winners will be contacted via email and asked to provide a mailing address so I can send the prizes.
Today is officially Star Wars Day! #MayThe4thBeWithYou In honor of today, I am giving away limited-edition Carrie Fisher #BipolarStrong coffee mugs as well as stickers to lucky select readers who preorder my book from now until May 31. The Bipolar Addict: Drinks, Drugs, Delirium & Why Sober Is the New Cool is due out next month.
Carrie Fisher is an everlasting symbol of strength and hope, a powerful woman who expired too soon, but left a lasting legacy on pop culture with her role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars films.
Fisher was one of the first celebrities to put a human face on bipolar disorder, and to this day, she is especially beloved by those of us who struggle with manic depression.
Although she died three years ago, Fisher will appear in the final film in the series, Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (due December 20), and director J.J. Abrams has said he is taking advantage of some unused footage from Episode VII: The Force Awakens so that Leia’s storyline can continue.
“We all talked about how to move on,” Abrams recently told People. “She was the best, she was glorious, she was amazing. We all just loved her. It was impossible, there was no way. You don’t recast that part, and you don’t have her disappear. Using CGI was out of the question.”
“There was actually a way to use those scenes to continue her story. And the crazy thing is, every day it hits me that she’s not here, but it’s so surreal because we’re working with her in scenes,” Abrams continued. “She is alive in these scenes, and in some with Billie [Lourd], her daughter. Princess Leia lives in this film in a way that is mind-blowing to me.”
Fisher’s brother Todd confirmed to Good Morning America that the additional footage of Fisher as Leia is entirely new content that hasn’t been seen before.
“This is unused, new content that could be woven into the storyline,” Todd Fisher said. “That’s what’s going to give everybody such a great kick. It’s going to look like it was meant to be. Like it was shot yesterday.”
“We’re not allowed to talk about the details of anythin’,” he continued. “But we’re thrilled at what’s been done.”
Heartbroken Star Wars fans also mourned the death this week of Peter Mayhew, 74, who played Chewbacca in the original Star Wars trilogy. Mayhew stood 7 feet, 2 inches tall.
Preorder The Bipolar Addict here. It officially drops the first day of summer: June 21. #MayThe4thBeWithYou
May the 4th be with you