PARTY TIME!! THE BOOK IS DONE!

Plans are exploding like Roman candles for book launches and parties celebrating the release by Oxford University Press of my new book. It is scheduled to be in bookstores and on Amazon.com by March 1. All of my usual scheduling (retreats, workshops, other events) is on hold until after the first of the year to give first place to book events.  Early in April there will be a big shebang in Amherst to launch the book, and a book party in Berkeley near the end of April, co-sponsored by Pacific School of Religion and Amherst Writers West.  Plans are also underway for an event in New York City co-sponsored by The New York Writer’s Coalition and another organization that for now remains a (very nice) secret.  Still only gleams in the eyes of certain friends (and myself!) are book events in Sacramento, Winston-Salem, and maybe even Ireland.

After seven years of writing the book, another year of hoping for acceptance by Oxford, then a ninth year of working with editors, proof readers and indexer, I am convinced that this is the best work I have ever done.  And I did not do it alone. I am deeply grateful to all of you who have supported me in the writing and in these past two years of near solitude as the final i’s were dotted and t’s crossed.

Sometime before the first of January I will begin to post upcoming events on my website calendar.  I do hope to see you in the new year.