When I looked at the date a few weeks ago and did some quick counting on my fingers, I realised that my book would be published in exactly 10 months.
Ten Months…
I’ve created entire human beings in less time than that!
The book certainly exists. There’s an already rather battered copy sitting here beside me as I write. Another 50 copies sit in a large box on my living room table. I’m apparently allowed to sell them at fairs and talks and so forth. Not in shops, though. That must wait until after June 26th 2024.
“It’s normal,” more experienced authors tell me. “Often it can take a year or more.”
My impatient inner child stamps her foot and yells, “But I want it NOW!!”
Once the tantrum has subsided, I give myself a good talking to.
It’s a spiritual memoir, for pity’s sake. It deals with the metaverse. You know time is simply a mental construct enabling a small part of yourself to be fairly comfortably embodied on this small blue planet.
Your book shares messages from other dimensions. It tells of creation, of non-physical communication, of energies and the spiral of life and death. According to your reviewers, it’s “…an uplifting guide for anyone who is interested in exploring the truth about life, spirit and the nature of consciousness”, “…a profound story of our intuitive capacity”, “…a timely contribution to our collective and evolutionary potential”. It has “…captivating insights and surprising revelations.”
Surely that’s worth a few months’ wait.
Chastened, I agree. I distract myself with preparing the ‘merch’ for all those fairs I’ll be attending.
Then, just out of idle curiosity — nothing more — I google my book title.
And there it is!
Barnes & Noble and Thrift Books in the US, Bookshop.org in the UK and William Dam in Denmark, to name but a few, all showing shiny pictures of my book and offering it for pre-order. Click on any of them to find my page.
Time is passing and, looking at the calendar again, I notice that it’s a mere 9 months and 2 days now. An acceptable gestation period, I suppose, for a book that’s been 25 years in the making!