Michael Stephen Dow is married to Perla in Arizona and has 3 kids. Michael was on a path to attend medical school and then the events of September 11, 2001 occurred. Michael became angry at the terrorists and decided to join the US Air Force. He went through Officer Training School and then graduated specialized Navigator training to become an Electronic Warfare Officer. Michael deployed 6 times for the Global War on Terror between 2005 and 2009 with the EC-130H Compass Call mission. Michael medically retired in 2010 and then became an US Army contractor serving Wounded Warriors and ensuring they received all of their entitled benefits for 8 years. Michael always had a love for science and the human body so he then used his GI bill to go through nursing school and graduated in August 2020. Michael now works as a Registered Nurse at an inpatient psychiatric hospital. Michael’s education is as follows: B.A. in Psychology from Auburn University in 1999, B.S. in Biology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2001, M.S. in Management from Troy University in 2010, Masters in Health Administration from the University of Phoenix in 2017, and M.S. from the University of Arizona in 2020 through its 15 month accelerated Masters Entry to the Profession of Nursing program. Michael is the Founder and Manager of Dow Creative Enterprises, LLC. His books have garnered the Silver Nautilus Book award in 2020 (Nurse Florence, Help I’m Bleeding) and an Award-Winning Finalist in the Religion category for the 2021 International Book Awards (A Prayer to Our Father in the Heavens: Possibly the Greatest Jewish Prayer of All Time). Michael believes we will need the best of science and religion to successfully navigate ourselves, our civilization, through the future obstacles we will face. More information can be found at
www.DowCreativeEnterprises.com and
www.NurseFlorence.org. Nurse Florence® is a federally registered trademark by Dow Creative Enterprises. The Nurse Florence® series seeks to promote science and health among children and to help increase the health literacy levels of our society. With teamwork, inclusion, faith and perseverance, we can bravely face our problems and help each other reach our better selves as well as our best collective good.
Author Links
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📙 Thank
you for your time in answering our questions about getting published.
Let’s begin by having you explain to us why you decided to become an
author and pen this book?
My mom said many years ago, after she saw my love of writing, that if I
ever became successful, it would probably be due to a kids book. During
the beginning of COVID, I was very concerned about my
children’s online
education and thought, “What if I write a science book series and my
kids have to read it because dad wrote it.” The Nurse Florence series
was born and the first published in Sep 2020.
📙 Is this your first book?
No. I have written many books. Please go to
www.DowCreativeEnterprises.com for links to the multiple series.
📙With this particular book, how did you publish – traditional, small press, Indie, etc. – and why did you choose this method?
Indie. Dow Creative Enterprises® uses the Lulu self-publishing platform
to publish the Nurse Florence® series. We are exploring using other
platforms for future series.
📙Can you tell us a little about your publishing journey? The pros and cons?
Self-publishing can be fun because it can be easy after you figure out
how to efficiently operate the platform. It is very hard to market your
books by yourself. I was told by a traditional publisher they couldn’t
publish my books since I was not famous, did not have a massive social
media following, or was a recognized expert in my field. Self-publish
helped me still create things and help the world become a little better.
📙What lessons do you feel you learned about your particular publishing journey and about the publishing industry as a whole?
It’s all about marketing if you want to be successful in the realm of
high sales. Be a constant learner and find new ways to promote your
book. There are lots of great book marketing books out there.
📙Would you recommend this method of publishing to other authors?
Yes, but know that it is hard.
📙What’s the best advice you can give to aspiring authors?
Create, create, create.
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