Busy, Busy Weeks Ahead

"Ask and ye shall receive."

Boy howdy!

My next several months are going to be crammed full. I'm going to be working waaaaaaaayyyyyyy more than 40 hours a week on numerous projects and commitments. Networking is helping; word of mouth is helping; referrals are helping; my marketing materials are helping.
I pray for the strength to get through the next weeks with full energy, resilience and a sound mind! 

Right now I'm working on a project for a local gentleman who wants to release his book about growing up in the Ozarks many years ago.  He has written a real keeper. I'm also finishing up another local lady's book about growing up in the deep South before and during the civil rights movement. She was smack dab in the middle of it, on the receiving end of the animosity.  If you've seen or read THE HELP, you have some idea. This women's story, too, is riveting.

Both of these folks have photos to accompany their words, which makes their manuscripts all that much more riveting: readers get to see the privations with their own eyes. I hope both books help explain and describe what growing up "dirt poor" really means. I hope it shows, too, the nobility of these folks to keep putting one foot in front of the other, day after weary day, to keep a roof over their heads, heat in the stove, and food in their stomachs.  Both books make me want to stand up and salute!

I have a feeling my publisher may want both of them...