Carol Gino RN, MA, has been a nurse, author and teacher for over 30 years. She has worked in all areas of nursing including Emergency Room, Intensive Care, the Burn Unit, Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics, Pediatric Intensive Care, and Hospice Care for the terminally ill.
Her first book, The Nurse's Story, was originally published by Simon and Schuster and sold to nine foreign countries. It was #2 on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list, on the Publisher Weekly list for six weeks and featured in several Book Clubs. Carol did two cross-country tours for The Nurse's Story, which included TV, radio and print.
Ms. Gino's second book Rusty's Story, the true story about her friend who had epilepsy but was misdiagnosed and lived out her childhood in mental institutions. This book sold 350,000 copies and again a 15 city media tour followed. That book received the Epilepsy Association's National Book Award and the Service Award and was on the New York Times Bestseller list for 5 weeks. In 1997, Kensington Books published Carol Gino's book about the SIDS death of her grandson, Greggy, called Then An Angel Came.
Carol Gino was the long time companion of The Godfather author, Mario Puzo for 20 years until his death in 1999 and in 2001 she completed his book The Family, published by Judith Regan of Harper Collins. It too became a best seller. The Nurse's Story screenplay was completed by Mario Puzo and submitted for a feature film or major TV series.
Her recent books include, Where Dreams Come True - a love story across parallel lives - and a series titled, Straight Talk from Spirit which includes, There’s an Angel in My Computer, The Yardsale of Life and several others. These whimsical, witty and often irreverent angel guided journeys are the writings Carol began right after she experienced a ruptured aneurysm in 1987. The EEG showed only Theta and Delta waves and for her, losing the left-brain logic functionality for a time, it was also a Spiritual Emergence.
“At the time, I was sure I was dying. I could no longer read, write or remember anything from even a moment before. I was more terrified than I've ever been in my life and had no logical brain to speak of. Time meant nothing, I had no way to process it. I did see and feel things I never had in my life before - but that only frightened me more. My head pounded, I sat in the dark because the light hurt my eyes, and when I was able to dress, I often found myself wearing a few sets of underwear. Finally, after about 3 weeks, the Angel Janith told me, "You have chosen to live." I said, "I did no such thing!" But there was someone else to consider. My higher self, who had plans of her own. I began to try to live again. But I couldn't manage very much. I couldn't even meditate... I just sat at my computer and wrote and cried, tears sloshing onto my keyboard. I couldn't comprehend much of what I typed until much later. Still, each day to try to hold onto a small bit of sanity, I talked to myself, or rather to my higher self, who calls herself Rashana. For the last fifteen years, I kept typing and talking to her and listening.”