As you may have heard, after selling more than 500,000 copies, Chicken Soup for the Chiropractic Soul is now out of print. In response to popular demand for a practice-building follow-up, Parker Seminars has retained the services of Don Dible to serve as editor of Back to Health and Wellness, a volume intended for the public as testimony of the benefits of chiropractic. Mr. Dible is the author/editor/publisher of more than 60 non-fiction books including fourteen compilations – one of which is in the Chicken Soup series.

The primary objectives of Back to Health and Wellness will be to enhance the professional image of chiropractic and the contributing chiropractor while encouraging people to recognize the wisdom of having regular chiropractic care and pursuing a complete wellness lifestyle.

Where appropriate – and to provide incentives to readers to keep turning the pages – stories that include a touch of humor, or tear duct stimulation, will be most welcome. (Note that the book will also feature a full dozen, professionally-prepared, chiropractic cartoons.)

After an initial review of all story contest submissions, a group of 200 semi-finalists will be assembled from which a panel of chiropractor Story Contest Judges will choose the winners. Parker Seminars will award all prizes in exchange for non-exclusive publication rights to the winning stories! No financial commitment or minimum book purchase whatsoever is required to participate in this contest.

Writers’ Guidelines

Each contestant is invited to prepare a single, true, chiropractic-related, testimonial-type, short story (1,000 words max), written for an audience of chiropractic patients and prospective patients.

Stories should be submitted to Don Dible, Series Editor, DMD House, 29925 Rose Blossom Drive, Murrieta, CA 92563 or emailed as an attachment to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Story preparation can be in Microsoft Word or Corel Wordperfect – electronic submissions would be preferred. 

At the beginning of your story, please provide complete contact information

including daytime and evening phone numbers along with your email address.

Receipt of all submissions will be acknowledged; no stories will be returned to authors.

Story submission deadline is May 1, 2010!

Prize List

First prize will be 200 copies of Back to Health and Wellness: Feel-Good Stories from the Heart of Chiropractic to be published later this year, pending decisions from the new Parker Seminars story contest!

Second Prize will 80 copies (worth $1,200) and third prize is 40

copies (worth $600).

All remaining contest winners will receive five copies of Back to Health and

Wellness (worth $75).

For further details, or if you have any questions, please contact Dr. Gilles LaMarche at 214.902.3483 (CST) or by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it