I have been adapting to a new phone for the last week or so, at thirty-three I am about as technologically savvy as my grandparents were with the VCR in 1992. I am two more frustrated attempts at getting my professional e-mail linked to my phone away from handing it to my three year old and acquiescing that both age and ineptitude will have me at the tender mercies of my children. I have no problem admitting publicly that my three-year-old is much sharper and smarter than I could ever hope to be. To make a short story long, I finally checked in to my other e-mail tonight to find that I did in fact get a response from a library that has accepted my book!
The news comes three days after having what I am told was a successful first public reading and Q&A for Nothing to Get Nostalgic About. I cannot even begin to articulate what that experience was like. My childhood best friend Allison said it best last night “just seeing the people there made me smile,” yeah…that is probably the most accurate account of Friday evening’s reading. My son’s teacher was there, she brought all her book club friends, my poetry thesis professor and my poetry mama attended, Mrs. Burnham showed up to support me, and so many friends of twenty years or more all came and had brilliant questions about the book. My friend put so much emphasis on how special that was and asked what it felt like. Honestly? You can’t really anticipate this sort of thing, and when the book came closer to publication, I made an effort not to build up expectations in my head for it. I wanted to just let things manifest organically for better and for worse. I am fortunate that people (even those who have known me since I was a kid) genuinely wanted to know about the process, what inspired the characters, and inquire about a lot of the lore that exists within the story. As for now? I would love to do another reading if the interest is there to do one. As for tonight? I’d love to just sit and hopefully come up with some new poetry. There are ideas for a new manuscript, but I don’t want to force anything while I’m trying to promote this current novel. An audiobook is currently in the works, and hopefully I will hear from more local libraries about the fate of the book. I feel good, still cautiously optimistic but good. Hopefully this story will find more readers and people will let me know if another reading is something they’d love to be part of.
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