Blogger Bethany Eicher has recently posted a review of Anything But Simple. “To grow up Mennonite,” she writes, “is to be set apart from the world at large for life. The best way I can think of to describe this odd phenomenon is to imagine being born Russian and living in America.” Go to her […]
Anything But Simple: Reviews, Interview, and the 2nd and 3rd Giveaway Read More »
One month ago, I wrote about buying 988 copies of Anything But Simple to resell. “Ask me a year from now how that’s going for me,” I said. Four weeks later, I have a report. So far, I have sold or given away 428 of those books, which leaves me a remainder of 560. I
Everything You Didn’t Want to Know about Writing and Selling Books Read More »
I don’t know what it is in me that drives me to want to be heard. Once upon a time, a friend told me that she had detected a repressed desire of mine—repressed because I am a woman, and a Mennonite. You practically shout in your public and private writings, ‘I want to preach!’ she
I am pretty sure I stole that title from somewhere: maybe a school reader. It has that annoying, alliterative ring to it. Ah, well. After an enjoyable launch day in my home community, I set out for Berne, Indiana, to kick off a two-week book tour and to sell books. From Berne I traveled to
New Faces, New Friends Read More »
My good friend/adopted little sister and I set out for Nashville, Tennessee, last week to pick up books. Lots of books. 988, to be exact, because Lucinda J. Miller, who always overdoes everything, got the brilliant idea not only to be an author but to sell her own books. Lots of them. Ask her in
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