Day 12: From Another Time
There was a boy sitting on my lap when the email came in. We were co-learning long division, which takes all of me.
Then I had virtual office hours. No, my course wasn’t switching to credit/no-credit. Yes, I still need you type your work instead of upload pics of your handwriting.
Two hours had passed, and I was finally ready for the email. Then the boys started running the living room and kitchen like a circuit. I told them to go outside. Then the dogs started barking at pedestrians. I told them to keep quiet. Then I caught a boy eating hot fudge from the jar, one finger lick at a time. I told him to go outside, too.
I needed 5 minutes and a hiding place. I snuck up to my bedroom with my phone.
The email was worth the wait, in one sense the wait of an afternoon, and in another sense, the wait of three years.
There’s a group of people who have turned their reading hobby into a reviewing platform, creating pockets of online reading sub-cultures. In exchange for a copy of your book, they’ll review it for their audience. It’s a relatively affordable and effective way for a local author to reach new communities.
I’d asked Carrie Schmidt of Reading is My SuperPower to review Lu when I published in Summer 2017, and that would have been great, but how much more grateful am I that it worked out now?
It’s a good review, but I’m sharing it here because it’s a sweet reminder of something other than microbes today.
