As several of you know, a couple of years ago I wrote an essay for a traditionally published book about living with disability and then, as usual in my life, things went amiss. The publishing company had an office fire (or maybe the whole building burned? Reports vary.) and timelines went askew. Time went by. I got a few emails asking for patience. Then one that said they were rethinking the whole way the book was going to be presented.
A manuscript arrived in my inbox last week and I was asked to check if the parts of my essay used were used in ways that did not negate the message I was trying to give with my entire essay. In fact, we were all asked to read the whole book, if possible. But there was a four day deadline and I didn’t have time last week to do so. In any case, my parts sounded fine. The parts of the book I read seemed mostly on target for what I was expecting (as long as they proofread it before sending it on to the printers).
So yesterday I got another email, with the title of the book. It’s supposed to come out mid-late summer, so watch out for it: Beloved As We Are: Building a Congregational Culture of Disability Inclusion. (I will, of course, post more about it when I get cover art and links and such.)
Lisa Holcomb 