From my desk,
to yours.
On a Slow Boat…
My publisher recently made the decision to move the release date of A TIDE from August 5 to October 1, in the middle of the 2022 football season, and also the 61st Anniversary of Alabama's team of 1961–the first of three Alabama National Championships won under the Bryant/Laslie partnership.
Not long after receiving the news, a dear friend, who happens to be a children’s librarian, sent me the picture book How This Book Was Made. I laughed out loud reading about the journey of the writer in the narrative whose travails one reviewer describes as “a quirky exercise in self-reflexiveness." The surreal digressions and visual humor author Barnett and illustrator Rex use to portray the path to publication do hold some nuggets of truth. I hope, though, that A TIDE OF DREAMS print journey to a bookstore/library shelf near you does not include a slow boat across pirate infested seas, one of the many mishaps that befall the writer’s book in How This Book Was Made!
P.S. - Not to worry for those of you who might be wondering. TIDE's print travel will only be from a US distributor to retailers via the U.S. Postal Service.)
About Carey
Carey Henry Keefe grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., and attended the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia, graduating with a B.S. in Business Management. She speaks regularly to groups about the remarkable group of men known as the "90-Day Wonders" and the history of the Navy's WWII Pre-flight Training program profiled in A TIDE OF DREAMS.