I am driving toward home. The road is rutted, and wet spring snow is falling in a blur against the windshield. There is the froth from a cappuccino from my favorite coffee place in a paper cup beside me, and good tunes on the stereo and I’m returning from two more interviews, my mind is brimming with the way these stories that I’m gathering all circle back to this:
Do what you love. Say yes. Risk everything. Practice, and practice some more. Then do it all again.
And then I’m at my mail box and all week I’ve been opening it looking, waiting to find the fat envelope I’m expecting. The promise, the whole thing spelled out in ink and official forms, and today it was there, and I signed and slipped the papers into a new envelope and stuck them on the wide bay window sill by the door so I won’t forget to bring them to the post office to send out by certified mail first thing in the morning.
And just like that: I’ve signed a book deal.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Life In The Present Tense: A Field Guide To Now will be published by Globe Pequot Press and available in book stores in September of 2012!
I’ve been waiting because it feels so good, so almost too good to be true good, that I wanted everything singed and sealed before I shared here.
Because this is it. This is the beginning of the rest of my life. The beginning of what I want more than any other thing, and it’s happening.
It’s happening because of your backing, and encouragement and trust in my process and my heart is wide ocean of gratitude.
My editor,* Mary Norris, found the book via Kickstarter and has been pushing me the past several months to hone my proposal and dig into my vision of what I picture for this book and it’s oh so good.
An I can’t wait to finally start sending out the long promised backer rewards. Cannot wait to make prints, and pull together postcards, and chapter snippets and a podcasts and sneak peaks and just pure goodness. Stay tuned.
* Yes! I finally get to say that. It feels amazing.
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A week or two ago I found is the scrap of paper on which I scribbled this dream, before I could even imagine how it might be possible.
It's proof: ask, and the universe answers.
Do what you love. Say yes. Risk everything. Practice, and practice some more. Then do it all again.
All the love in the world,
Christina