Month # 9 IT'S A BOOK!
Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
Weight: 1.2 pounds
Hardcover: 376 pages
Publisher: Yucca Publishing (February 17, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1631580140
ISBN-13: 978-1631580147
Average Customer Review: (Here’s where you come in,friends.)
Your ongoing interest and encouragement have meant the world to me and helped me get this baby off the ground. Now, when you find the time, I’m hoping I can count on you to sustain the life of the book by reading it and writing a (favorable)
review on the book page at Amazon, and/or Goodreads. I’ve even kept this month’s blog post extra short so that
you’ll have plenty of time to get to that other reading: A Tale of Two Citizens!!!
Before I wrap up this 9-month
blog of mine, “Birth of a Book” aka birthofabook, I want to tell you about the
actual delivery. In keeping with
the parallel between baby and book delivery, sure enough I found out just days
before the due date that the date had been changed! Moved back! That’s right,
February 3 was no longer the expected publication date; early last week, with
no warning whatsoever, the pub date on Amazon was now listed as February 17th. What?! Huh?! And various other exclamations… Exclamations but no explanation.
On the bright side, however, the publisher assured me that while there had been
a delay in the official pub date (and I still have no idea why), my books (as part of the contract, I am
entitled to a few books, which is only fair, don’t you think?) would arrive as
planned. I would definitely have
the book in my hands by February 3rd. And they sent me a tracking
number so that I could follow the progress of the package from warehouse to my
front door.
Tracking number in hand, I
checked the UPS website last Friday and to my utter delight, saw that the
package was “on the truck for delivery.”
It wasn’t even February yet, but the package would be delivered that
very day! Just like with babies – they’re early, they’re late, they’re early,
they’re late – anyway…I spent Friday pacing and gazing out the dining room
windows, from which I can see the front driveway, at the end of which would
pull up the UPS truck.
Pacing, waiting, gazing,
pacing…
At about 4 p.m., no truck came
into view, but a young man in a tan uniform was wheeling a box on a dolly
up the brick path to our front porch. I threw open the door, thanked him,
hoisted the heavier-than-I-should-hoist package into the house, tore through the
intractably sticky wide swath of tape – and there they were: BOOKS.
The book itself swaddled in its beautiful cover, with pages and front and
back flap copy and everything in its place.
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Thanks for coming on this 9-month trip with me. I’m thinking I’ll be starting another blog pretty soon to document the Life of The Book. Maybe I’ll call it something like that, keep you informed of various developments like reviews, reading and signing events, new ways of reading the book, etc. Stay tuned…Oh, this just in!
