This will be a quick blahg with exciting news. 
My novel, “Pippa’s Passing” is finally ready to order from Amazon. I started writing the book in February 2022 and now, two years on, it’s been edited and fine tuned and ready for readers to take it on.
When I first started writing it, I published a blahg, PIPPA’S PASSING about two months into the writing process. And in mid-June of 2022 in the blahg, SOME THINGS TO CELEBRATE…TEN YEARS ON I commented how I had finished writing my book. Here’s what I said:
I have been meaning to write this novel for ten years and finally started it in February of this year. It’s a hard process to describe. Once I had started, the characters began to speak to me and told me what to write. I had no conceived notions where the book was going at times but when I sat down each day, the words were there and formed the story. I’ve always had the beginning and ending over the last decade but I had not idea what direction it would take. I’m happy with it. Now I have to send it out to see if I can get it published.
I did send it out to a few publishers over the past couple of years but with no success. The publishing market is probably flood every year with submissions and I guess I didn’t do a good enough job of promoting it to them. So, I decided to go the Amazon route and have spent the last couple of months working on the format for both the Kindle electronic version and the paperback version.
The cover design for my book has always been based on my daughter Abbie’s artwork. This is how the Kindle cover version will be displayed:
When it came to the paperback version, Abbie and I consulted and thought a wrap around cover might look better. We had to consider the spine and what text would be on the back. The initial layout, as designed by Abbie, looked like this:
You can’t really read the back cover text but below are the front and back covers broken out and you can click on them to view a larger version.
The proof copy of my book arrived last weekend. Here’s what it looked like:
It took me all week to read through it at 385 pages. I had to check every word and line. Some of the software I used caused some formatting issues and of course I may have missed a quotation mark or odd comma or period. I made no major changes but managed to tweak a little to make it even stronger. Here’s a photo of me that Jeanette took when I first received the proof:
I also made the bold decision to update my Facebook page with my real name and posted about my book being available through Amazon. I’ve never had a public Facebook page before but if I want to promote my book then I have to get on with it.
What’s left to say? Oh, I know, PLEASE BUY MY BOOK! Here’s the link:
Update: Five author copies arrived on a snowy day in Canada:
I have also uploaded some videos of me promoting the book on YouTube and TikTok. Here’s one of the YouTube videos:
They wanted to issue a two CD set of Linda Keene’s recordings and include my acetate. I was also contracted by Jordi to write the liner notes. Here are some pictures below of the set and some pages from the liner notes: 
