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My father has passed.

My father passed away peacefully in his sleep last week. We had the service yesterday. I'm away from everything, spending time with my mother for the next few days but I will slowly come out of this place. I'm sorry this has happened while I'm supposed to be sending out signed books and other things but I'm just sorry it happened at all. Everything that was supposed to happen, will happen, please grant me a little patience. He was a truly great man and if you like anything in me, it probably comes from him. 
I'll tell you more about him when I can. Until then, thanks for waiting just a little bit longer. 

The Space Between The Lamps

You drive too slowly down the streets where you once lived but you roll up your windows when you stop at the lights (just in case any of the ghosts try to get in).

A Chance For Something Amazing

Dear You,

Barnes & Noble will begin stocking copies of I Wrote This For You at select stores this week.

It's only on a trial basis at this point but I'm going to allow myself to get excited about it. I hope you are too.



To celebrate this and the launch of I Wrote This For You: Just The Words, I'll be giving away some signed copies of all my books*, including Intentional Dissonance and both I Wrote This For You books, Jon will be donating at least one signed photograph from I Wrote This For You, I'll be doing an AMA on reddit towards the end of the week and I'll also be doing some long distance readings via Skype*.

If you can, go to a Barnes & Noble and take a picture of the I Wrote This For You book on the shelf or your receipt if you buy it and tweet at me:

"I found I Wrote This For You at Barnes & Noble @BNBuzz #iwtfybn"

Or write whatever you feel like as long as myself and @BNBuzz see it and it includes #iwtfybn so I can track it and send you your prize.

If, like me, you don't live in a part of the world that has a Barnes & Noble, you can enter one of two ways.

Firstly, take one of the entries from I Wrote This For You and recreate it, like these examples below from tumblr and tag it with #iwtfybn, then tweet it at me.






Secondly, just write www.iwrotethisforyou.me on a napkin in a restaurant, or in a book in a library, or on a street sign, wherever someone can see it and tweet me a picture with the hashtag #iwtfybn.

I'll announce the winners on Monday next week, a week from today, and the Grand Prize** winners a month from now, on February 20th.

Thank you for your time, it is so valuable and I am forever grateful for it,

Me

*Depending on what's available.

**The Grand Prize will include signed copies of all three of my books and a signed photograph from I Wrote This For You.

The Sand Remembers Where We Stood

Say good and true things to the water because it will carry us when we become the dust and the dirt of the world.

Because if the oceans and currents are good to us, we will wash up on the same beach again.

Because it would be good to be with you again.

The Stones Make Sand Slowly

If you are lucky, one day you'll get the chance to have your life defined by how much you loved and were loved by someone else.

I Wrote This For You: Just The Words. Now in print.

This is my horrible hand writing. This printed edition contains around 400 (I'm not sure, I haven't counted) entries from the I Wrote This For You project, including many from the first book, many entries that were written after the first book was published, and several things I wrote while I was away that only appear here in this book.

While it focuses on the words, it does feature some selected photography at the start of each chapter from my friend and traveling companion, Jon, the photographer.

I hope it means as much to you when you read it as it did to me when I wrote it.

My best,

Me.

PS. You can win a signed copy of the eBook, and make a donation to the Red Cross/MSF, here.

The Moments You Have

You are not what you think about doing tomorrow.

You are what you start to do, today.

I Wrote This For You: Just The Words - eBook

After a a traumatic year, it gives me no small sense of relief to know that as of today, the eBook for I Wrote This For You: Just The Words is available - here on amazon, here on Barnes & Noble, here on Kobo and it'll be available soon on iTunes. 
The print edition will also be out soon, if you'd prefer to hold it in your hands and draw on it with a pen.  
Here's what my publisher says about it (Thank you for all your hard work Michelle).

"The follow-up to the #1 bestseller, I Wrote This For You: Just The Words presents twice the number of entries with over 400 works from the internationally acclaimed poetry and photography project; including several new and never before seen poems. 

While focussing on the words from the project, new photography launches each section which portray everyone's journey through the world: Love Found, Being In Love, Love Lost, Hope, Despair, Living and Dying."
We made this to compliment the original book, not to replace it. 
The original book was published in 2011 and contains nearly 200 of what we considered to be the best photographs and entries from the project - and because of the nature of full colour printing, it costs around $25.00. 
This contains more than 400 entries (many from the original book, many never printed and quite a few that are completely new that were written while I was away) and only a few black and white photographs, at the start of each chapter - which will cost around $10.00 when it's printed. 
The book has also been divided up differently, as apposed to the story I tried to tell with the first book, this simply groups the entries into what they focus on; love, state of mind or living and dying. It's designed to be something that you find something in. 
The continued support of the amazing community that has sprung up around I Wrote This For You over all these years is what made the first book such a phenomenal success, please continue to spread the word about this book, repost this to your blogs and tell your friends about it too as the more successful it is, the more we can create. 
Thank you for everything you are. 
It's good to be back, 
Me    
PS. Here's the first page. 

The Shapes Left Behind

You should not look for me in the places I once was. Look for me in the places I am now. In soft rain.

On starlit oceans.

The Ripple In The Clouds

The hardest thing to do when you go back underwater, is talk about what the sky was like.