I have been unintentionally AWOL for a month and this has left me feeling at a loss for words today. This is not to say I have nothing to say – I’m just finding the wherewithal to say it lacking. I’m rusty.
I’ve been getting my place ready for a renovation that has been in the works for months. Of course the project snuck up on me – I procrastinate better than anyone I know – I’d had oodles of time to get organized until suddenly I didn’t. I’ve been furiously emptying cupboards, loading boxes and generally making a mess of things for the past few weeks.
While doing all this emptying and packing I unearthed a project I’ve been successfully avoiding for longer than I’d care to admit. In the middle of my mess I have tackled my biggest procrastination. The collection of blogs written under the heading ‘Writing from the Wound’ is now safely tucked between the covers of a book titled ‘The Secrets Widows Keep’.
This book has gone through several incantations on its road to realization – it’s been a bit of a slog, it was easy to stuff its potential in a drawer. Out of sight out of mind right? Wrong. Although hidden from view it’s been pestering me since I closed that drawer.
It occurred to me as I prepared to move the roughly crafted first and second drafts of my story into a new drawer that I hadn’t written all those heartfelt, desperate words just to keep them hidden – I had written them to be read. They weren’t perfect but they were honest. It was never my intent to make money with the words – the intent was to set them free with the hope they could help someone in a similar situation feel less alone.
I’ve been editing and reworking those words over the past month and I’ve come to the conclusion they are never going to be perfect, my punctuation will always suck but the story those words tell is real and as ready as it will ever be to test its wings. The book is the best I can make it and it’s time to set the story free So here goes….
I am excited and nervous to announce The Secrets Widows Keep is available on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca and will soon be featured on my website to read for free (as soon as I can figure out how to add a new page and attach the PDF).
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Congratulations for getting published. You go, Girl.
Thanks Penny – it’s self-published but it’s out there and that was my goal.