You know, I started out writing something much longer and more complicated, but the truth is that those of you reading here, by and large, have been here for the long haul. You were around to read about the start of Blue Riley, and about what happened when her story sold. You may very well have been one of folks who responded to my request for help with details around Wyoming in winter or the wonders of I-90. You’re the people who know about Wren, and about how I vanish into my head every spring, and how much I like turtles.
So I don’t need to tell you all those things again. It’s simpler to say this: once upon a time there was a girl who loved words more than anything, and she made a deal with sadness once and gave up all her words to try to stave off change and loss, and then she realized that didn’t work, and she took her words back again. If there is a piece of me in Blue, it is that piece that puzzles over how the words fit together, and what it means to write something, and to say it out loud, in front of people.
But the thing about books is that once they are out in the world, they become about the readers far more than the writers. If the world of a book being read could be seen from afar, I suspect it would look much like a jigsaw puzzle being fit together. Every individual reader a piece; their own lives, their own stories, shaping the part they create. It becomes so much more than a book, so much more than words on a page made by one person alone somewhere. In reading we are alone, but we are also together in a truly incredible way.
All of which is a long way to get to the point: DEVIL AND THE BLUEBIRD is out in the world today. Thank you for being part of the journey.
May 17, 2016 at 10:51 am
MINE CAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am SO excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 17, 2016 at 11:11 am
I have zero copies right now! You have more than me!
May 17, 2016 at 11:42 am
Congratulations! I can’t wait to read it. ^–^
May 17, 2016 at 11:43 am
Thanks, M.E.!
May 17, 2016 at 1:15 pm
Congrats!! I hope today is wonderful for you!
May 17, 2016 at 4:58 pm
Thanks so much!
May 17, 2016 at 1:21 pm
Congratulations! 🙂
May 17, 2016 at 4:59 pm
Thank you!