Things i have not been doing: Running this blog. Keeping track of what day it is. Things i have been doing: Running Story Camp, a film series, a book sale, and a network book tour at the church library. Planning an eighth grade language arts course for my best girl. …
As of yesterday, all outstanding Weem Adrift Publishing orders have gone out and all are expected to arrive by Christmas. This makes me happy. i love that so many of you placed orders. i love that i got to bind you books with my very own hands and then send …
Dear readers, Jubilations-purchasers, sojourners with me into words herein, i wanted your books to be perfect. One thing after another has me feeling like something is preventing me from finishing the preorders. Tight hinges, slipping ruler, torn paper, printing errors. i don’t know why and i want it to stop. …
Jubilations released ten days ago. Preorders opened six and a half weeks ago. i started binding in advance—hardcovers, especially when the paper has to be hand-cut, take awhile—but i hit a production hitch right after release and everything ground to a halt. Now, instead of having everything shipped by the …
Since announcing the upcoming release of In the Year of Jubilation i’ve been caught up in a flurry of learning, coordinating, stitching, binding. Now the first orders have been shipped and i can gratefully say that Jubilations is officially back in print. 🙂 Thanks to a thrilling number of preorders …
Two years ago during Lent i discovered a poem cycle that has carved itself into my bones. It appeared in the Rabbit Room’s first installation of their annual literary journal, the Molehill. i had been reading along, a piece here and a piece there—fiction, essay, recipe, poetry—and when i came …