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Biography, books, childhood, His Red Journal, history, Kate Riley, memoir, publishing, relationships, Sandra Drake Scott, self publishing, suicide, Word Catcher, World War I, writing
At last, the book is born! Available now at Amazon.
There is no stopping a woman who has entered into the mystery. Sandra lived her life without much thought, even denied intimate questions, surrounding her father’s suicide until she began to write this memoir. In researching his life and death, she encountered a tome of revelations and shocking truths that lead her deeper into the abyss, only to propel her to the surface with new-found understanding. Bit by painful bit, Sandra pieced loose ends together, solving the mysteries of so long ago and integrating the past into the present. This book unveils a young girl’s hopes and fears and a father’s broken dreams.
Tooting my own horn a wee bit, I experienced the thrill of helping Sandra to birth this book, to share a story within a story, about events that happened long before she was born. Her publishing team has climbed many thorny mountains together to bring this amazing book into the world. We hope you will enjoy it.
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Beautiful Cover on Amazon. I couldn’t find it using “His Red Journa”l – only when I added Finding My Father. I thought your write-up excellent.
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He he, I just made the book image a link, too. I should have done that in the first place. Thanks, Bob.
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Intriguing … but then again most of what you write is.
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Thanks, Sybil, but just so you know, I didn’t write the book, I just helped with a bit of editing and book design. 😉
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It seems like you’ve helped at least a few people with their book projects. How cool must that be for you? I wonder how you’ve established a reputation that brings these people to you. Your talent is undeniable, but are these mostly people who have followed your work here, or are they friends who have learned to rely on your wisdom with these writing matters?
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You are too kind. It is cool. I can’t tell you how cool it is. There is an enormous trust and intimacy that goes into these collaborations and I’m always humbled by the experience.
To be honest, my first few attempts at this procedure grew very organically out of my writer’s group. It was a matter of economics. These awesome writers all had something intriguing to say, but they lacked the funds to pay some big publishing house to get into print. As a group we began investigating the possibilities of self-publishing. Weird as it seems, considering my erhum…age, I recently graduated with a degree in English, with a technical communications emphasis. The skills I learned meshed with the skills needed for self-publishing authors. We’ve all been learning as we go.I never saw this coming, ever. But I love doing it. And, it appears that word-of-mouth is taking me beyond my initial group of friend/clients.
Thanks, as always for your wonderful encouragement and support. It means a lot to receive praise from writers like you whom I so respect.
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Oh that sounds like a fantastic story! At first I thought it was about you. You really need to write a book yourself!
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As you may have guessed, this is tied up with your ridiculously belated Christmas gift, about which I could probably write a mini-book! The cat is out of the hat. As soon as I have an autographed copy in hand, you present will be on the way.
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Yea!!! It sounds wonderful. Can’t wait!
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Congrats, Sandra! And, thanks, Linda!
Sandra, I loved the description of the meal in the woods you read at the Writers’ Conference last year. And I discovered that I LOVE brown bread.
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Thanks for dropping by and leaving a calling card. I forwarded your comment to Sandra to make sure she’d see it. 😉
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Congratulations to both author and editor! I will download this to my kindle.
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Woops, we don’t quite have it ready for kindle yet. Working out a few technical issues. But plan to have it asap! Thanks for your kind support!
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This looks like it’s going to be good. I’ll have to get it when it’s Kindle downloadable! 😀
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Thanks! I’ll shout out on my blog when the Kindle is ready! I really appreciate your feedback.
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Definitely! 😀
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This intrigues and makes me wish I had the book – here. Today. The writing is on the wall, I need to treat myself to a Kindle. Your comment about how Sandra’s research created seemingly life changing insights hooks me. I have a suspicion that anyone with serious issues about a situation would find great benefit in doing research. Whether the result be validation or transformation.
I’m pleased to read the explanation re your involvement in helping writers. I wondered what intriguing missing piece was in the puzzle. Your group is most fortunate to have you on board. And the fact that you love helping in this way.
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You are always so kind, Amy. 😉 Unfortunately, it may be a while before we get the Kindle version up and going. We plan to do it, but are awaiting resolution to some technical issues.
Sandra’s research so inspired her that she’s already deeply involved in the follow up…”Finding Myself.” I suspect it will be very interesting.
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Any author would be fortunate to have you in their corner, Linda. I’m sure the book is amazing, and plan to order it the next time I begin filling my Amazon cart.
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You are so kind, Charles. I hope you will enjoy it. This one is a challenging read. But well worth the effort.
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What a feat! Bravo, my friend.
I noticed the swimming metaphor you used here; “…that lead her deeper into the abyss, only to propel her to the surface with new-found understanding.” That’s a visceral one for me! Love it.
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Actually, I can’t take credit for that great line. That’s from the book jacket, credit for which should go to Kate Riley. Poor citation on my part…..
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