Guys: My book, “The Elephant In the Room” — which I think I’ve been telling you about for 45 years or so — is one step closer to publication. The good folks at Simon & Schuster have put up a page for it on their website. It’s also now available for preorder through Amazon and Barnes & Noble:
Or you can order a copy through an independent bookstore — my favorite is Park Road Books here in Charlotte.
The book doesn’t come out until January, which is a long wait, but if you go ahead and buy it now, by the time it comes out you’ll have forgotten that you spent the money and it’ll feel like a free book. And if you buy two now, it’ll feel like TWO free books!
(Yes, I am going to be shilling the hell out of this thing.)
There’s been a lot going on with the book behind the scenes. We’ve been talking about covers, doing final edits, figuring out the size and the font and the million other little things that go into making a book. This is all new to me and there’s a lot about the process that’s fascinating, at least to a book nerd like me. Which leads to a question.
I’ve been thinking about starting up a weekly newsletter that would give you a glimpse at what it’s like to take this book from start to finish — as well as pulling together the podcasts I’ve been doing at WFAE, any writing I’ve done that week, and other interesting stuff I ran across.
Is that something y’all might be interested in?
If so, do me a favor: If you’d like to subscribe (I guess I should mention here that it’ll be free), send me an email with the subject line SIGN ME UP at tomlinsonwrites@gmail.com. I’ll put you on the list for when I get this thing started — I hope in a couple of weeks.
In the meantime, I hear preordered books make great gifts!
— TT