Tampa, FL -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/20/2011 -- Inspiring fiction of a girl's search for personal empowerment and authenticity, based on a true story!

Author Virginia (Ginny) Scales-Medeiros explores the eternal question, "What is Normal "What is Normal?" is a dramatic fictional novel based on the inspiring true story of Sue. Normal for Sue growing up was being a teenage high school dropout of teenage parents, being molested by a relative, backwoods living, strict Baptist upbringing, poorly made clothes, even living in a trailer that is now a chicken coop. Later, normal is discovering the power of lying, stealing, alcohol, and drugs. Normal is mastering the art of selling, making headline news, patenting a new invention and landing in a movie, reaching in the end not a "normal", but an authentic life.

Author Virginia (Ginny) Scales-Medeiros is a entrepreneur, inventor and marketing consultant. She said current events helped inspire her to write "What is Normal?" She wanted to write a story that would motivate people to overcome their blocks and find their true callings. Experience the emotional roller coaster as you go through the book and explore the trials & tribulations of Sue's journey. The book has received none other than raving & 5 star reviews nationwide. This comes at a time in our society where child molestation is topping the news such as the Penn State scandel and many more. Many will relate to her book.

"When I see things like the Occupy Wall Street movement, Occupy Together," said Scales-Medeiros, "millions of people must be asking themselves, "What is Normal?" What they need to do is work on their own dreams; get away from what society and the media are trying to feed us, and find what is real for them, like Sue in the book."

Scales-Medeiros was born and raised in rural upstate New York and now resides in the San Francisco North Bay Area. Finishing only the ninth grade and getting her GED, she went on to become an entrepreneur, a real-estate investor, an inventor with multiple patents, and an advocate for animal rights. Ginny proves no matter what hardship you face in life, with determination, preserverance & faith nothing is impossible. With her first invention, she won first place in the New Woman Magazine Contest For New Ideas. A successful marketing consultant in the auto industry, she applied her experience and created over a million dollars of free publicity for her sunless tanning invention, including on-air guest appearance's on QVC. As a consultant for ZAP, an electric car company, she started driving electric cars and let go of her gas auto completely, earning a role in the 2011 documentary, "What is the Electric Car?" As you can clearly see Scales-Medeiros is on her way to becoming a household name and an inspiration to many taking her place as a literary icon!

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Look for Force M.D's in Jet Magazine December 12th, 2011 and performing with Brian McKnight in San Diego December 15th.

Tampa, FL -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/06/2011 -- The Force M.D.'s originally called themselves the L.D.s, then the Force MCs, but ultimately preferred MD, which is short for Musical Diversity. Though the group was not quite always as recognizable as other New York R&B acts when it first started, the Force M.D.'s were among the first R&B vocal groups to intermix doo-wop-affected consonances with hip-hop beats.

When the group began performing as the L.D.s on Times Square street corners and the Staten Island ferry, the group was composed of brothers Stevie D., Antoine "T.C.D." Lundy (February 3, 1964 – January 21, 1998), Rodney "Khalil" Lundy, their uncle Jessie Lee Daniels, and later friends Trisco Pearson and Charles "Mercury" Nelson (December 19, 1964 – March 9, 1995). After the L.D.s connected with DJ Dr. Rock (Roger Daniels) they also performed as Dr. Rock & the Force MCs. In collaboration with Dr. Rock, the group continued to perfect their unique sound- a fusion of doo-wop harmonies and hip-hop that involved singing, rapping and group member's "human beatbox" melodies at underground hip hop shows. The Force M.D.'s gained even more credibility and respect from local fans after competing in an emcee lyrical battle against the well known Cold Crush Brothers from the Bronx.

By the time the Force M.D.s got a record deal, signing with Tommy Boy Records in 1984, the group had already developed into a pure quiet storm/contemporary R&B group, with its top-ten R&B hit "Tears" from the Love Letters album. With the exception of their first album, the group was the first act on Tommy Boy to have major-label distribution through its then-parent Warner Bros. Records. The group produced a collection of R&B hits throughout the 1980s, and received overwhelming commercial success from the Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis-penned love song "Tender Love" from their second album, Chillin' (1985). "Tender Love" was featured in the 1985 feature film and soundtrack Krush Groove. The single proved to be a huge success, peaking at #10 in the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming an instant R&B classic after it stayed on the chart for 19 weeks.[1] "Tender Love" was also one of the tracks that helped Jam & Lewis garner a Grammy Award for Producer of the Year. The song was sampled in the 1996 Bone Thugs N Harmony hit "Dayz Of Our Lives" and a number of current musicians that include Alicia Keys, the Backstreet Boys, Kelly Rowland, Marques Houston and Marsha Ambrosius have also included "Tender Love" in their stage shows in some way.

The Force M.D.'s finally scored its first R&B #1 hit in 1987, "Love is a House," from the group's third album, Touch & Go. However, the group's popularity began to wane the following year. A fourth album, Step to Me, was released in 1990, which featured production was by Full Force, Marley Marl, Monte Moir (of the Time), and others. Mercury and Trisco then left, and were replaced by original member Rodney "Khalil" Lundy and new member Shawn Waters. The group then released the album Moments in Time in 1994.

Tragedy struck the group three times with the passing of three of its members: Charles "Mercury" Nelson suffered a fatal heart attack in 1995; Antoine "T.C.D." Lundy died of Lou Gehrig's disease in 1998; and DJ Dr. Rock died under unknown circumstances. The Remaining MDs returned with a comeback album titled The Reunion in 2000. In an interview in 2009 President Obama highlighted the Force M.D.s among other artists included in his Air Force One iPod playlist. On April 8, 2010, the Force M.D.'s made its first national television appearance in over a decade on B.E.T.'s Monique Show.

A documentary film on the group titled The Force M.D.s Relived was made recently as well as a single "Valentines Day' released in early 2011 and "Sent For You." The guys from Staten Island are emerging back on the scene and making big noise! Rest assured they won't be going away anytime soon!

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