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it’s a book!

Posted: August 21st, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: books, cats, life | 6 Comments »

catsIt’s real! It actually happened!

Wednesday the FedEx man suprised me and brought me the advance copy of my book nearly two months earlier than I was expecting to receive it. I’ve been walking around with a really stupid grin on my face ever since.

I say “my” book, but it was a huge team effort, and I was most definitely the junior author on this one. Kristen and Iris both have loads of book-writing experience; I have loads of book-making experience, but not a lot of writing-for-publication experience. It was a really weird exercise to put on a completely different hat and sit in the writer’s chair, but it was also energizing. I hope to do it again someday.

And I have to say that everyone I’ve dealt with at Quarry has been a joy to work with, and they’re putting out some really beautiful books (I had to go peek at some of the others in the series at the bookstore yesterday).

6 Comments on “it’s a book!”

  1. 1 alexandra keller said at 12:01 am on August 22nd, 2009:

    i have it in my amazon wishlist :)

  2. 2 christina lee said at 8:50 am on August 27th, 2009:

    WOO HOO Lori I am just seeing this- so dang exciting!! can I have an autographed copy please????

  3. 3 Lori said at 10:45 am on August 27th, 2009:

    Thank you, Christina! Let’s reschedule that coffee soon…

  4. 4 Pam Achter said at 3:35 pm on August 31st, 2009:

    YAY! I’m so glad to see it’s out–I’ll have to look for it for Christmas gift-giving. Of course, I just found the website catswhothrowupgrass.com. where I found there’s a 78% chance my dear kitty is planning to kill me…

  5. 5 Lori said at 3:52 pm on August 31st, 2009:

    Thanks, Pam! It’s not in stores yet, but you can preorder on Amazon. Kristen & I talked about doing a signing or two, too. :-)

  6. 6 Shannon said at 10:37 am on October 3rd, 2009:

    Yay! Congrats on this!

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