A writer who won’t give up! (final)
The fun stuff (cover design, interior images, page layout, etc.) is now complete.
Editing is also now complete. Our book has been through three rounds of editing (me), one peer review (Hillary’s friends), and one round from a professional editor.
We also agreed on a final title. We chose the title “Pink Tea Leaves” for a specific reason. When she was a little girl, Hillary read tea leaves with her great aunt and remembers being fascinated by the random stories that could be told from studying sediments at the bottom of a tea cup. As her cancer odyssey progressed, we settled on tea leaf reading as an appropriate metaphor for the unpredictability of the path that she was traveling.
I submitted the cover and interior files to a publisher for placement on Amazon.
“Pink Tea Leaves” now happily sits here: http://amzn.com/0985328843
I’m happy. Hillary’s happy. Reviewers seem happy. All good.
I’m really glad I went through the book writing/editing/publishing process with Hillary. We both learned A LOT.
Next book I think I’ll write about a happier subject. Maybe the “ADHD” Labrador Retriever I raised while parenting my son on my own. He did get himself into some unforgettable predicaments. (the labrador, not my son. Although…)
More soon!
