Founder approves of new book
The proofs for "A Book is Born" are on the corner of my desk. They arrived yesterday. I think my heart is starting to return to normal pace and my knees have stopped shaking but every time I look at the pile of cream pages and the untrimmed jacket I can feel my stomach dance. I've published over 50 books for women, over 100 products in total, yet this is the first with MY name on the spine. About 6:15 this morning, Wyatt, who is now 10, came into my office to say good morning and saw the proofs.
"Wow Mom, what is this?"
"It's my book honey, look that's our name on the spine."
"It's cool. What's it about?"
I opened to the foreword and read Jennifer Basye Sander's quote, "What is it really like to be published?" and flipped through the chapters showing him the illustrations and explaining, "All my authors answered questions about each step of making their book, and I put it together to teach others how to do it."
He stopped me on the author branding examples and his eyes got big, "I remember you doing that, and that, ooh and that," pointing to the images he saw flash on my computer screen over the last three years.
"Mom, this is really, really great."
I let him read the acknowledgements and he giggled. Just what I wanted.
It was better than any book review in Publishers Weekly or the New York Times. It's hard to compete with a dad that races trucks and rock-crawls in his Jeep, but I do believe my son was proud of me this morning.
~ Nancy, the brand new mom to "A Book is Born"
