Corners: Voices on Change is scheduled for ebook release on May 3oth. Why the divided launch?
We want you to be able to read these amazing personal stories as soon as possible. And we need your help obtain recommendations and book reviews. We’d like to have some posted reviews and emailed recommendations before we publish the print edition. To make it easy for your book-loving friends, we are going to make the ebook free on June 2 and 3. And then again about a week later. We will announce the promotions here and on/or our Jack Walker Press Facebook page. Be sure to like and follow us there.
Please copy the url of the book page on Amazon into your favorite social media account and ask your friends to read and review. Some of you have told me that you know writers or subject experts who would read the book and email a recommendation (blurb) to ALatJackWalkerPress.com. Replace the at with a @. Please personally ask people to read and review or recommend. Advance uncorrected proofs are available in softcover if a potential reviewer needs a physical copy. Please email me the name and address, and I’ll send them out. Ask reviewers and blurbers post or email within two weeks. Do follow up and ask them again. Subject experts and authors who would like some informational support can be referred to our article on blurb writing.
Your participation and support is likely the difference between us having the opportunity to make charitable contributions or just working to cover costs. We’ll be in much better shape if we can launch our paperback and hardcover with some solid reviews and blubs. If you are a contributor, you shouldn’t post a review on Amazon, but you may read the book and write about it on your blog, social media or other book site. Good books sell when people talk about them.
Every life journey traverses curves and corners. In Corners: Voices on Change, writers find a way. Their literary essays offer honesty, comfort and humor. Tracing their stories helps us to process our own changing lives. Be inspired by thoughtful lives as the writers—
- Deal with grief and loss
- Reject antiquated patterns of prejudice and selfishness
- Get fired
- Engage in War
- Experience disappointment in God
- Find their voice
- Say “no”
- Navigate the ubiquitous anxiety of loving a recovering addict
- Save themselves from disappearing into marriage or parenthood
- Discover lynchpins in family and culture
- Choose a new religion and choose to love within the backlash
- Learn to love a Trump-voting spouse when it seems a betrayal
- Recreate a great life when the body, brain, or life circumstance won’t return to the old normal
- Accept responsibilities, truths, and realities
- Celebrate differences
These voices don’t prescribe a singular path to self-actualization. That would be a lie. We all face corners. We have to turn. We must make accommodations, or we get stuck clinging to beliefs and ways of life that can no longer sustain us. The beauty in these very human stories is laden with honesty, triumph, humor, resignation, comfort and insight. The cumulative effect of these personal stories is even greater than the sum of the parts. Readers experience the gallant pursuit of managing responses to change. Writers celebrate and lament the past, but don’t cling to it. They find a new normal. They strive. They accept. Read today—for everyone navigating change.