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Um...maybe a bad idea...
This is probably a kind of shitty idea.
A perpetual stranger comes along again,
and what does he do? --He posts a plug. Oh, not for one of his books...
It's his mother's.
Oh, it's not that new. At the end of earning her PhD,
she switched her dissertation topic to how people often spend their final years,
and then wrote a book around it. I told her how hard it can be to sell self-published work online without advertising, but she ended up doing that anyway.
She was very passionate about it. Every time I sent back a draft with corrections and suggestions, she went back in and changed things everywhere, and I reread it a second time, third time, 10th time. We spent so long, back and forth with it, and finally, she published it, a few months after Covid started seriously going to work on the landscape of life and death.
I just feel
it is time
to do a shitty thing,
and mention it:
Dying Lessons: A Love Story by Patricia Amborn. On Amazon.com.
A perpetual stranger comes along again,
and what does he do? --He posts a plug. Oh, not for one of his books...
It's his mother's.
Oh, it's not that new. At the end of earning her PhD,
she switched her dissertation topic to how people often spend their final years,
and then wrote a book around it. I told her how hard it can be to sell self-published work online without advertising, but she ended up doing that anyway.
She was very passionate about it. Every time I sent back a draft with corrections and suggestions, she went back in and changed things everywhere, and I reread it a second time, third time, 10th time. We spent so long, back and forth with it, and finally, she published it, a few months after Covid started seriously going to work on the landscape of life and death.
I just feel
it is time
to do a shitty thing,
and mention it:
Dying Lessons: A Love Story by Patricia Amborn. On Amazon.com.
Published 12th Apr 2022
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12th Apr 2022 5:42am
Dear P,
I think it’s a very thoughtful thing you’re doing for your mother. I enjoyed the inter personal relationship of your editing exercises- her re-doing your re-doing. Congratulations and all the best. H🌷
I think it’s a very thoughtful thing you’re doing for your mother. I enjoyed the inter personal relationship of your editing exercises- her re-doing your re-doing. Congratulations and all the best. H🌷
Anonymous
13th Apr 2022 3:36am
Yes, to what Honoria said. It shows a deep Love that you would write a poem about this. It doesn't feel like a plug at all, or read a crass in any way. Ot feels simply that you are honoring your mother's work.
I doubt anyone gets even remotely offended, and if they do they are curmudgeons.
And some of us love passionately written books about emotive subjects!
I say well done.
I doubt anyone gets even remotely offended, and if they do they are curmudgeons.
And some of us love passionately written books about emotive subjects!
I say well done.
