A-Fib.com Publisher, Steve S. Ryan, Wins Gold for his book, 'Beat Your A-Fib'

May 22, 2014 - PRLog -- The 2014 eLit Book Awards has recognized 'Beat Your A-Fib: The Essential Guide to Finding Your Cure by Steve S. Ryan, PhD, with the Gold Award in the Health/Medicine/Nutrition category.

Available as an eBook and softcover book, Beat Your A-Fib  is written for patients with Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib), the most common cardiac arrhythmia (abnormal heart rhythm) seen by physicians. Intended for patients who wants to understand their illness but don’t want to wade through medical books and research journals, Beat Your A-Fib helps patients research their best treatment options, steps through how to find the right doctor for their type of A-Fib and treatment goals, gives patients hope and empowers them to develop a plan for finding their A-Fib cure or best outcome.

Amazon.com Top 100 Best Seller: Since its debut in 2012, Beat Your A-Fib has been continually on Amazon's Top 100 Best Sellers lists in two categories Disorders & Diseases Reference, and Heart Disease.

Other recent awards: Steve S. Ryan is a recent winner of the 2014 New Horizon Award for debut authors, a 2014 Eric Hoffer Book Award in the E-Book-Nonfiction category and is a Gold winner in the 2014 International Book Awards.

About the eLit Awards
The eLit Awards is an industry-wide, unaffiliated awards program open to all members of the electronic publishing industry, and is committed to illuminating and honoring the very best of English language digital publishing entertainment. The eLit Awards celebrate the ever growing market of electronic publishing in the wide variety of reader formats.

The eLit Awards contest is presented by Jenkins Group Inc., a Michigan-based book publishing and marketing services company that has operated the popular Independent Publisher Book Awards contest since 1996.

About the Author
Steve Ryan, PhD, is a former A-Fib patient, a noted healthcare educator and advocate for patients suffering from the heart condition Atrial Fibrillation. In 2002, Dr. Ryan started Atrial Fibrillation: Resources for Patients (www.A-Fib.com) a source of independent, well-researched information on current and emerging treatments, resources and medical research, written in plain language for patients and their families.

His first book, Beat Your A-Fib: The Essential Guide to Finding Your Cure, is available at Amazon.com, BeatYourA-Fib.com and other online booksellers. The e-book version is available from the author's book site, www.BeatYourA-Fib.com.

Dr. Ryan earned his Ph.D. in Educational Communications from The Ohio State University and for many years taught film and television courses at the college level. He and his wife, Patti, live in Malibu, California. For a more detailed background, see Steve S. Ryan, PhD on LinkedIn.

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