Finally able to get back to my computer after some illness and traveling and able to reveal . . . the cover for Hurricane Baby: Stories, due out in August 2024!
I want to thank Jacqui Davis for her design work here in realizing exactly what I’ve always had in mind for the cover of this work. Appreciate the whole team at Madville Publishing for taking on this project and awaiting the next proof copy with bated breath! Much love to all!
Hurricane Baby has a cover, ISBN number, and price. Keep watching this space, and you will see the cover after the New Year when the situation is totally finalized. YAY! Becoming more real by the day!
Kicking along with the new story as well. I’ve done a lot of thinking about what I want to write down, but eventually I need to start actually writing it down. Right now I’m keeping notes in my phone as they come to me.
I don’t know what this syndrome is where I can’t take myself seriously when I’m first starting out on a new project, but it needs a name. It’s not quite imposter syndrome–I know I’m fully capable of writing a good story. But I can’t look ahead to the future while I’m drafting, or I freeze up. I’ve spoken about this before–I have to keep my goals limited and my ego turned off. I’ve gone so far as to label a document Trash (before I knew about Dorothy Allison’s book) so I wouldn’t take what I was doing too seriously and just think about it as a throwaway project so my ego wouldn’t get involved. Anyone else out there ever feel this?
(I’m sure my ego will be kept in check when I actually start selling Hurricane Baby. I’m trying to keep my expectations reasonable there, as well.) 🙂
Anyway. I am going to take my time with this new project. I will have Hurricane Baby line edits coming my way soon, so that will a welcome development. Then it will go to print, and the book will be one more step closer to reality! Pre-order links will be available by March, so you will be able to order it then. Pre-orders are SO important–that helps the publisher know exactly how many books to print depending on what the demand is according to pre-orders. So you will hear me emphasizing that again once that time comes as well.
Thanks so much for all your support, and please wish me well as I begin to flesh out this new project as well. Thanks to all who read! Happy reading!
Julie Liddell Whitehead 