December 2, 2023
Hello, Friends, As you will have seen on the opening page, GETTING A LIFE has a new cover by the fantastic Kelly Carter who also created the print and ebook editions of the book. Getting to this point has not been easy. Last March my daughter received a diagnosis of breast cancer, so I have been supporting her whenever she needed me. As well, my pain-riddled, depressive brother ended his life in September. He was seventy-nine and very ill, but still, he was the last remaining person in my family besides me to be alive. So I have had a lot of distractions both physically and emotionally over 2024. Fortunately, Ursula has been declared cancer-free now. She has radiotherapy and more immunotherapy to go, while hopefully the chemo is at an end. At any rate, our family is celebrating her renewed health and I anticipate more time to work on my writing. Hopefully, both versions of GETTING A LIFE will be out in December--not the best time to put it out, but here I am with a completed book. I'm thinking Kobo for ebook and IngramSparks for the printed version. Yes, in print! Using the publish-on-demand (POD) system makes it possible for me to make the book available in print. I hope you're as thrilled as I am that GETTING A LIFE is getting a new life, and will be offered to young adults around the world. To read more about this book, go to Getting a Life above. So, what happened to MAGNIFICAT: SONG OF JUSTICE? Inanna Publications went into a restructuring this past summer, so the book was postponed to hopefully the spring of 2024. This is the third time books from Inanna have had to be rescheduled since powerhouse-now-deceased editor Luciana died. So I've moved GETTING A LIFE into the spotlight for the moment. By the way, if you're interested in reading MAGNIFICAT, just let me know in the contact form on the last page of this site. I will put you on my email list for updates on what's happening with this adult book so much a labour of love that grew out of my deep interest in Mexico and Central America. Meanwhile, I'm looking for an editor for the sequel to GETTING A LIFE. I have called it FINDING JAGUAR WOMAN, the code name for Hildie's mom when she was in the liberation army fighting against the tyranny of El Salvador's oligarchy in the 1980s. In this installment, Hildie goes to live with her father's Salvadoran family. She needs to know them and have their love and support again like she did as a small child before she was whisked off to Canada. Most of all, she wants to find out what happened to her parents in the war. Both died, but where and why--and maybe even how? And what made them choose the war over their love for Hildie, their only child? Hildie has lots of questions and she intends to find the answers. During this time, I will be working on promoting GETTING A LIFE, re-writing whatever needs change in FINDING JAGUAR WOMAN, and doing my own preliminary editing on the recently completed third book of the trilogy, ISSUES OF TRUST. I hope that your life is full of interesting things to do, as well, to distract you from this darkest time of year in which our creativity at least symbolically goes dormant and works its magic to return in the spring. Kathleen
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