Hi all!
To everyone who has already purchased a copy (or five!) of my book, The Stories You Told & Other Poems: A Practice in Empathy, THANK YOU! What a wonderful surprise it was to see all your enthusiasm upon its announcement. Did my heart good!
Preorders are open for one more week.* These books are printed to order and will be released as a limited run, so only those who preorder will be guaranteed a copy. I will have a very small quantity of books on hand for purchase after its release, but I’m not sure if I’ll do another run after that. So certainly, if you’re hoping to get a copy, do preorder!
You can place your order at my website. Books will begin shipping in early May. I’ve just ordered all my eco-friendly shipping supplies—working to make this as sustainable an effort as I can :)
There are also some preorder perks, including:
All of these limited edition books will be numbered, signed, and wrapped beautifully for you.
Special preorder price.
3 free months of my Daylily newsletter membership, where we have conversation, share our art, and where I release a very cool monthly audio collaboration with my songwriter wife, Alex Blue.**
This little collection is made up almost entirely of poems I’ve written for y’all on commission, and it’s been such a special thing to get to revisit each and every one of those poems as I put The Stories You Told together. It’s vulnerable to finally put this out, and I am having lots of nerves about it, but I am quite proud of what we made together. I really, really hope y’all like it.
Thanks to you all for your support. Means the world to me!
torri
*I originally intended to close preorders April 22, but I realized I won’t be able to place the order ‘til Monday morning anyway, so preorders will now be open until end of the day Sunday, April 24 :)
**We’ll have two episodes of the Daybird Audio Sessions coming up back-to-back here VERY soon. Thanks to you Daylily members for your patience while our family has recovered from an illness and lost voices!