The Story of Lu
I almost tripped over my own sequel on Sunday.
Delirium has something to do with it. Summer Sun + Concrete makes a heady mix, and I feel baked like bread every time I walk the dogs. It’s possible Cody & JB sniffed out the envelope from Amazon before I spotted it.
But really, it’s life! I spend most of my daylight trying to keep Troy Boys occupied and off screens. I’m pacing the fall school speculation and planning as best I can, both as a mom and professor. Stomachs want food three times a day, and housework regenerates upon completion. As I type, I’m wondering whether I should thaw beef roasts from the freezer for our July 4 Family Fun, but I’m still typing, so I’ll probably forget until Saturday morning.
Life! There’s a lot I forget, like how last Monday I ordered 3 proofs of the sequel to Lu – for just one more proofread. I bent down to pick up the package.
“I think this is the sequel,” I told Matt.
I opened it, he inserted the ooh and aah at the right moment and in the right tone, declaring he might like this cover better than the first (Is this possible? This can’t be possible. Maybe it’s possible?) And then it was time to go to my mom’s for dinner. I put the sequel back in the envelope – TBC on whatever day I will get to proofing.
Second books are like second babies. They’re no less precious, but there’s a life that can’t halt like it had to for the first because you had no idea what you were doing. It took all of you to figure it out.
It’s a little more comfortable with the second. You know what you’re doing, where you are in the process, and who you are in it all.
And so ..
It’s from a place of both after-thought and intense excitement that I share with you …
Louisa – the sequel to Lu – will be released on August 10!
Yes! Yes!! YES!!!
I’ll be flooding the blog with the details over the next month, but before all of that, I need to ask the question women avoid asking.
Will you help me?
I’m looking for a group of people who are jazzed – yes, about Lu, Dunlap’s Creek … Jackson (ahem) – but really about what happens when we encounter stories of how God is real and deals with real people. Stories that tell this story, in words real people use, carry a limitless potential to reach people where they are and open their minds to who they are in God. At its core, Lu, Louisa, and every other story I will go on to write are about this.
If you’re feeling a YES! building as you read those words, then I’d love your help over the next month. Just send me your name and the best email to reach you and you’ll get …
An e-copy of Lu to read/shareAn advance e-copy of Louisa the week before releaseWeekly videos from me with inside bits about this story + encouragement for sharing our stories as part of the larger story of salvation Spotlights on other Lu readers. It’s such a cool group.
In return, I’ll be asking for your help in small ways – ways many of you have helped already. Letting people know Lu exists and how it affected you makes a difference and will continue to make a difference as we prepare for the Louisa launch.
If you’re feeling that YES! contact me with your name and email.
If it’s not your jam, cool. The blog will offer a pretty good view of what I’ve been up to with writing and will be up to with publishing over the next month, and it all starts next week!
