I'm so excited! A few days ago, I received my first shipment of books from Tate Publishing. It's one thing to write a story in my mind and then type and fume and fuss at the computer to get it in a tangible form. It's disconcerting to listen to comments by fellow writers on how the book can be improved. It's tingly-exciting (for me) to find just the right word to say exactly what I want a sentence to convey as I revise, revise, revise. And it takes chutzpah to send that manuscript out to agents and publishers and get it back. Again. Again. Again.
My manuscript didn't appeal to denominational publishers. "We don't publish biographies," said one. I hadn't thought my book was a biography. I thought it was an accounting of what God had done through the years in the tribes of northern Thailand.
"We won't have enough sales," said another. "You talk about miracles. Methodists won't buy the book if it's about miracles. And speaking in tongues. That rules out the Baptists."
Hmm.
So I tucked it away in a drawer for eight years.
Then, last year, I decided to venture into internet publishing. As I searched the internet, I found Tate Publishing, a kind of joint-effort, joint-financing company. I carefully read their prospectus and weighed my options, comparing them with previous books I'd had published. I decided to go for it.
We're still discussing one unresolved issue, Tate and me, but it looks like it's a win-win. Yay!
If you want an autographed copy, it's $18.99 + tax, or $19.84 if you pick it up or $5.15 additional if I mail it. Or if you're a Kindle/Nook advocate, I can let you have a download card for $8.
Everybody who read the manuscript in its almost-final-form loved it. I think you will, too.
A bonus: I'll donate $1 for each sale to Esther Sudaporn, a young college student in Chiang Mai studying to be an English teacher. She's a delightful person. You'd love her.
Questions? Comments? Let me know.
