Author Appearances (Readings, Signings,and Virtual Tour)

Last night someone approached me to ask if I would be willing to give a reading and talk about Love is the Thread.  (Guess what?  The answer was Yes!)  Tonight at a business dinner, someone else began to hammer out the details of an appearance I'll be giving as part of the virtual, online tour for the memoir.  

I've spoken with the staff of a local bookstore about readings.  Several people have asked me to give talks to their clubs.  As specific dates get booked, they will appear on this site's calendar.  But as I prepare to dive into the ocean of author appearances and promotion for Love is the Thread, the book I never planned to write, a story that is as close to my heart as the friendship that inspired it, I have to tell you:  the water's fine!

I'm also reminded of how much Kristine loved "her sister the ocean."

Life happens

I prefer to look at unexpected events as life happening, rather than "shit happens."  So lots of life has happened over the last five days.  Judith has been in limbo, or at least halfway up the long slave road between her home and the center of the Assyrian encamment. 

Living people I love have needed my help more than my character, her friends and enemies. 

Today (I'm whispering this in case the universe decides to laugh)  I'm tiptoeing up to Judith, holding out my hand and saying, "Let's get back to work, shall we?" 

Though in truth, I've been at work.  There is an Emily Dickinson fantasy/nightmare that a writer's life as a life of isolation. Solitude, where I've retreated at least for this moment is not the same thing.  Like Judith my life touches many others.  Sometimes that means an uphill climb to give them a helping hand.  That helping hand gets extended to me at other times, too.