Thursday, March 2, 2023

Unboxing


It just never gets old, opening the box and holding that first bound copy in your hands, the matte feel of the cover, the grassy smell of the paper, the inked words looking all official, the way you dreamed it as a little girl, but never thought such a thing could ever be possible. Dreams, I now understand, are so powerful as to leap hurdles of doubt, geography, implausibility. "All you have to do is envision it," my cousin Helen used to tell me. "The  spirit universe will take care of the rest." You have to know Helen. When she says things like this, people simply believe her.

Oh, and I forgot to mention, this book that I wrote from hours and hours of interviews and conversations with CBS Saturday Morning co-host Michelle Miller and others in her circle through most of last year has been made an Amazon Editor's Pick! This makes me so happy, because despite the foundational wound of her White mother abandoning her Black daughter at birth, Michelle is a beautiful human, her heart as wide as a continent, her whole being irrepressible and generous and brave. 

The pub date is March 14, 2023, but you can pre-order here.


29 comments:

  1. Congratulations, you work so hard and with such amazing results!!!

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    1. Thank you, Sabine. The book was hard to figure out at certain points (as all books are) but we think it turned out okay!

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  2. Bravo! I cannot imagine how this feels.

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    1. Thank you, Sandra. It feels like wonder, as if you can't quite believe you did this thing.

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  3. Mary G is admiring, and having a vicarious sniff of new book scent. So glad you made the cover. It should always be this way, ut sometimes isn't.

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    1. Mary G, I so appreciate your support, from a fellow writer and editor like yourself. You definitely understand these trenches!

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  4. Congratulations! I am so happy for you and Michelle Miller for such accomplishment and acknowledgment of your work together.

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    1. Robin, my subject is a lovely person, and she is so generous in acknowledging our work together, even in news stories about the book, which isn't that usual for a collaboration. In truth, I have loved every single subject whose book I have co-written, so I'm a lucky one.

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  5. Yaaayyyy! So true about the spirit universe. Looking forward to reading Belonging.

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    1. am, thank you so much for your support always. It humbles me really. I appreciate you so much.

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  6. Unboxing your new books is unlike anything ever ever. Congratulations darling.
    Rebecca

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    1. Rebecca, I know you know! The smell of the pages. Intoxicating!

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  7. "With Rosemarie Robotham." Oh my love! Oh my heart. Huge congratulations!

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    1. Dear Mary, thank you. You know more than most what it takes, so those projects that have your name on the cover are a bonus for sure! One cannot have too flaming an ego in the business of collaborative writing, but I'm proud of the work Michelle and I did together!

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  8. Congratulations! How amazing it must feel to see your hard work published and acknowledged! Well done!

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    1. Ellen, thank you! it is a bit of a rush to see words you remember writing now inked and bound on pages that smell like parchment. As I said, never gets old!

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  9. Congratulations Rosemarie! It must feel like the birth of a baby in some ways, so much work and then you finally get to see what you made. I'm looking forward to reading it.

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  10. Oh, how exciting! to see the project finished and hold it in your hand.

    and your cousin Helen is right. we make our own reality through what we envision for ourselves, we put it out there, we call it to us, and the universe complies. thought is energy and the more thought the more the energy materializes. also hard work and keeping your eye on the prize.

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    1. ellen, I love how you think, and you know, I agree with you, that what we think on multiplies the energy around that thing and helps it manifest. but yes, of course none of this happens without our also working toward that goal! thank you for your artist's sense of how it is when we endeavor to create something, and then see it whole and made. Yes, exciting!

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  11. Congratulations!!! This is very cool.

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  12. I love that your name is on the cover. It should always be there.

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    1. Allison, it's indeed lovely when my name is there, but in this business, that's not always the case, or even preferable, and I've come to accept that. I learn so much on every book, I meet and get to know extraordinary people, and I take that as the ultimate reward. But I appreciate your support!

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  13. What a wonderful project! Congratulations.

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  14. Oh my gosh Angella!!! I was looking through my blog which I haven't posted on in years and a beautiful comment from you popped up! And you are still here! I miss you! Congratulations on the book! I just ordered it!!!

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