That has allowed for something I’ve never been able to do before.įirst, I have total control of what goes into print, including the great cover art done by my daughter. Instead of contracting as I have for my nonfiction books with a Doubleday or Penguin to publish many tens of thousands of copies and place them into bookstores nationwide, announcing them in big circulation newspapers and magazines, as well as on radio and television, I created my own imprint, found the right people to help in this endeavor of love, and have published them in the new format of print on demand for paperback and hardcover, with the two basic ebook formats also available. The stories are all quite particular, but the lessons are universal.Īnd I’m bringing these tales into the world very differently from the vast majority of my books. They’re about weakness and strength, wisdom and virtue, friendship and animosity, uncertainty and hope, life and death. They’re about my fears and joys and uncertainties and suspicions. But I just came to realize that they’re about my deepest hopes and dreams and values and aspirations. My job was just to write what I was seeing and hearing.Īnd yet, somehow, mysteriously, the books are all about me. As I’ve said here many times, the stories simply came to me as a mental movie, playing in my mind’s eye and ear for five years, with all the dialogue and details already there. I’m editing the final book in my series of philosophical fiction, set in Egypt in 19.
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