Monday, December 20, 2010

Why You Are Here - Briefly

"Why You Are Here - Briefly" has recently been published by O Books. 100+ bite-sized dialogues to prompt you on your journey through passion and purpose, meaning and mission, life and death.
This feels like a good place to say something about the book. People have asked how long it took to write? One answer is no time at all, because most of the dialogues came to me out of the blue. Walking idly through a park I would notice a dialogue pop into my awareness and scurry off to my PC. I got quite excited - probably overexcited - at the form, the short snappy dialogues, which was new to me.
But the title took ages to emerge. I struggled with bizarre titles like "Rimi and Klep" and later the more workmanlike - if prosaic - "Signposts for Searchers" and during this period, several years ago, approached a handful of publishers without a flicker of interest, so I left it to gather dust, so another answer to the how long did it take question is about seven years.
Once the title "Why You Are Here - Briefly" came to me I presented it to O Books who snapped it up. You can view a sample at Amazon.
I remain interested in simple formats that may prompt understanding and hope more will emerge.

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