A First!
November 21 2009
- The e-mail came from Suzy Geers, marketing coordinator at Plaidswede Publishing in Concord, New Hampshire. She wrote that she and Sara Minette, Plaidswede editor, would love to bring me some books.
Mutual Aid was published!
It’s always an overwhelming event, the arrival of my advance copies of a new book, but this was a first, to have them hand-delivered.
Of course I began remembering other arrivals, starting with my first novel. That was a different kind of first, the very first time I saw the transformation of my work from manuscript and galleys to a bound book. I’d seen this before with my father’s books, but it didn’t prepare me. The Lilting House was published in America while Don and I were living in England, so the books were mailed to me across an ocean. Not hand-delivered!
The advance copies of all the following books were also shipped. The Cost of Living was the first to arrive at our apartment in Dover, The Cheerleader at our house in Farmington, and Aunt Pleasantine here in Sandwich.
And now, on a late autumn afternoon, Suzy and Sara drove up from Concord, pulled into our driveway, and out of their car came a box of books. In our kitchen Suzy opened the box and with a flourish handed Don and me each a copy.
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© 2009 by Ruth Doan MacDougall; all rights reserved
