Invitation
Garden Book Launch
September 14, 020
This Monday
Garden Book Launch
September 14, 020
This Monday
All day - Open House - Come and Go.
- First Reading 10:00 am
- Second Reading 3:00 pm
- Third Reading 7:00 pm
Garden Art Gallery by sculptor: Cliff Derksen
Price of book $10.00
Masks are highly recommended and we will be practicing social distancing! Masks will be provided.
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Why have a book launch?
It’s a question I’m asking myself.
Most would think it's to sell books. It’s certainly not to make money – at $10.00 I’m practically giving the books away. And why go through with it now – when COVID has made launches socially unacceptable - at least according to the local bookstores?
So why am I doing this?
I think it is because I need a deadline. Most writers need deadlines – especially with books that take years to write. This one took me about four years which can feel like an eternity at times. Not only to me, but those around me who want to remain supportive.
I have a few dedicated supporters in my life who follow the process carefully. I will tell them with great satisfaction, “I’m finished. It’s out of my head and I’m taking a break.”
“Oh good, can I read it?” they ask politely.
At which point, I recoil in horror. “Oh no, I've only finished the first draft.”
By the time I’m into the 15th draft, they become skeptical it will ever be finished.
A book launch signals the “final finish!” They can now read it! So mainly this book launch is to prove that there truly was a book in the making,
It’s also a time to thank everyone who was part of the writing process. It actually takes a community to write a book. There are many unseen listeners, editors, and encouragers. Oh those dear encouragers who say the right thing. They are invaluable!
Oh yes – we also need the critics, the editors, and those who are part of the process and don’t even know it. When writing a book everyone is a potential source of a new angle, a new insight, a new tension, a new thought, or a memory - all of which are so important.
Finally, It also serves as a beginning – of the next book. I once heard a writer describe this transition from the end of one book to the next. He said, “When I want to talk about the book I’m writing, no one is interested. When it comes out – everyone else wants to talk about it, and I’m on to my next book.”
A book launch – can serve as a convergence of these two conversations.
Actually - It's all in search of the conversation!
And I'm hoping this book will lead us into yet another - much needed - conversation.
“In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt like we were in some place your body can't visit, some place with no ceiling and no walls and no floor and no instruments” - John Green
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