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Fiction AND Reality

I will shortly be mixing the two when I begin releasing 18 of the 52 books that appear in "Crossing Paths: the BookCrossing Novel"
http://marycelestepress.com/books_Pro...
at the Sydney BookCrossing Unconvention next weekend on Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd October.
Generally when I release a BookCrossing book,I either write a short review or type up the blurb on the back. This time I will be mentioning in the (real life) journal entry that this is one of 52 books in "Crossing Paths" and below I will copy the (fictional) journal entry for that book from the novel.
It should be fun and I love this sort of a challenge. My next? To possibly release five copies of "Where Angels Fear to Tread" in the courtyard near Juliet's Balcony in Verona. Life imitating Art.

The books in the book

Crossing Paths has eight main characters who, obviously, cross paths with each other but there are also 52 books that are journalled and do a lot of travelling too. For those who are interested, here are the 52 books. I have put a star against the three starring books that really clock up some miles.
In order of appearance:

Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain Fournier
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
One Writer’s Beginnings by Eudora Welty
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino *
A Closer Look at Ariel by Nancy Hunter Steiner
The Loving Spirit by Daphne du Maurier *
The Door in the Wall & Other Stories by H. G. Wells
Belonging by Isobel Huggan
Tell Me the Truth About Love by W.H. Auden *
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
Socrates Café by Christopher Phillips
1979: A Big Year in a Small Town by Rhona Cameron
Anne’s House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery
Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe
Dreams of Elsewhere by June Skinner Sawyers
The Truth About My Fathers by Gaby Naher
A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor
I’ll Never Be Young Again by Daphne du Maurier
Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The 100 Best Love Poems of All Time edited by Leslie Pockell
The Forgetting Room by Nick Bantock
The Long Sigh the Wind Makes by William Stafford
E.E. Cummings Complete Poems 1913-1935
Essays on Love by Alain de Botton
Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Walk to the Paradise Gardens by Charmian Clift
Sunlight on Cold Water by Francoise Sagan
Lost Profile by Francoise Sagan
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
There Are No Accidents by Robert Hopcke
The Day We Cut the Lavender by Jill Neville
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier
Being Enough by Leigh Sanders
A Book of Answers by A.D. Hope
To the Islands by Randolph Stow
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
First You Have to Row a Little Boat by Richard Bode
My Michelene by Patrick Drevet
The Light in the Piazza by Elizabeth Spencer
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
The Missing Reel by Christopher Rawlence
Jigsaw by Sybil Bedford
With Fondest Regards by Francoise Sagan
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
Disappearances by William Wiser
The World My Wilderness by Rose Macaulay
If With a Beating Heart by Jean Bedford
A New Path to the Waterfall by Raymond Carver
A Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield edited by C.K. Stead

How to buy the book cheaply.

For all my goodreads people, BookCrossers in the book and Aussie BookCrossers (because of postage from the US) here is the link to buy the book from Createspace. The discount code is E77GWHPV. The publisher is currently working on a Kindle addition and I'm hoping it won't be too long before it goes up on Amazon UK.

Debbie Robson

Where all my BookCrossers are within the book

Just for fun here is the list of my 40 real life BookCrossers who appear in Crossing Paths (along with my fictional BookCrossers) and the page numbers their journal entries are on.

TexasWren, page 18, first mention/deenbat, page 61, first mention/Lady-B, page 73/omly, page 86, first mention/minerswifebb, page 98/octoberskye, page 111, first mention/bookfrog, page 134, first mention/bookczuk, page 138/folia, page 159, first mention/thebiblioholic, page 175, first mention/lmn60, page 175, first mention/ottawabill, page 198, first mention/nobodysperfect, page 223/YvetteDownunder, page 226/dawni, page 234/geishabird, page 237/time-traveler, page 291, first mention/Azyade, page 315/bestfriends, page 322/Netstation, page 342/apapsa, page 352/ffc-fan, page 378/Humour108, page 384/asterw, page 395/Skyring, page 400/SwanOfKennet, page 410/flambard, page 416/mississippimom, page 426, first mention/lizzyblack, page 426, first mention/jessibud, page 437/liberliber, page 441/angelbird72, page 475, first mention/gypsyrose02, page 477/lesTomates, page 485/peachy93722, page 492/over-the-moon, page 500/Navig8r, page 529/amberjane, page 539/MissMarkey, page 557/talkland, page 562.
Where I have put "first mention" that means the BookCrosser is journalling a frequently travelled book or they perhaps send another pm. The three most travelled books in the novel are If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, The Loving Spirit and Tell Me the Truth About Love.
Virtual and real world meet!

The Book is up for sale!

And the publisher just made the deadline of September 2010. I'm so proud of Crossing Paths and it looks great! It's 600
pages of 52 journalled books, a young woman travelling across three continents, poems and excerpts and three sets of lovers. Something for everyone! And here is the code for the discount - E77GWHPV for all my goodreads friends.

https://www.createspace.com/3482229

a very very happy
Debbie Robson

The Book Has Arrived!

Of course I knew it was 600 pages but when you actually see it and hold it and feel the weight, well that's something else. I can't wait for bookcrossers, particuarly the ones featured, to see the book.
The journal entries look amazing and I hope my readers like the way 52 books are reviewed and journalled in the pages of Crossing Paths.
I'm like a kid at Christmas. I can't stop looking at the book!
a very excited
Debbie Robson

Mailing List

Well the mailing list is up. This is so the publisher can offer a discount to early birds and my BookCrossers!
http://www.marycelestepress.com/books...
Won't be long now!

Debbie

It's All Getting So Much Closer

The final proofs are done and I can't wait to hold the book in my hands. What a month it has been! My asthma has given me heaps of trouble but that is mainly the time of year and I know fellow sufferers are up against it too.
I have a book about to come out! Yay! A new fella in my life. My family is well. My dogs too! And I have another book waiting quietly and very patiently in the wings. What more could I ask?
Here are the details of my brand new book.
http://marycelestepress.com/books_Pro...

And Another Synchronicity

Ten days ago I picked up from Cardiff Station, New South Wales BookCrosser Casseopaeia from Cardiff, Wales. As a present she gave me Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold, registered by one of my special BookCrossers that feature in Crossing Paths. The label is a very nice one too so it will be the perfect book to explain to potential buyers not just the concept of BookCrossing but of the novel itself. I can show them a book registered by flambard who also appears within the pages of my book!
Serendipitous!

Synchronicities

It's all happening on the final run towards publication. Just today I received a postcard from the BookCrosser Angelbird72 who releases the book The Missing Reel in France. She is now IN FRANCE just as I am now tonight reading over the journal entry releasing the book in France.
I have these last few weeks also just sold all but the last four books of Tomaree clearing the decks for Crossing Paths and hoping to also catch a spot at the Sydney BookCrossing Convention in October.
Just approached Alain de Botton for a kind word about the novel (as two of his books are journalled in his pages). He said no but gave me warm wishes and the very best for publication which was nice.
And now back to the grindstone...