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"A resource for writers to help reimagine the relationship between writer and completed writing"--
About the author
Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew is the author of
Writing the Sacred Journey: The Art and Practice of Spiritual Memoir and
Living Revision: A Writer’s Craft as Spiritual Practice, winner of a Nautilus Award. Her memoir,
Swinging on the Garden Gate: A Memoir of Bisexuality & Spirit, is now in its second edition.
Summary
The release is the stage when writers share the soul of their project—its gift. Here’s how to thrive and best serve your work once the writing is done.
In The Release, award-winning author and teacher Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew invites writers to lift their heads out of the product-oriented sandbox and find an alternative way to play. By returning writers to their original delight and guiding them in an ongoing creative practice, Andrew helps form habits of mind, heart, and body to support a project’s final flourishing, free from the burdens of seeking validation and measuring worth.
With the same skill and compassion she brought to her other resources for writers—Writing the Sacred Journey: The Art and Practice of Spiritual Memoir and Living Revision: A Writer's Craft as Spiritual Practice—Andrew writes with deep empathy for the emotional journey when a work is done, through celebration and grief, decisions around publication, the angst of receiving negative feedback or rejection, and the sometimes surprising challenges that come with success.
Anyone—amateurs and professionals alike, those who intend to publish and those who do not, those with book-length manuscripts and those with haiku written on paper scraps—can do this practice. This book is for anyone who wants to release their work with love.
Foreword
- Early reviewer promotion through advance copies to encourage reader reviews and generate buzz. Extensive outreach for blurbs in the writing community.
- National review outreach to trade and print publications (Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Booklist, Library Journal, Foreword, New York Times) and online (Book Riot, LitHub, Spirituality & Practice)
- Social media campaign featuring blurbs and reviews of the book as well as designed graphics of select excerpts on publisher’s Twitter feed (@skinnerhouse), Instagram page (@skinnerhouse), Facebook page (/skinnerhouse), Tumblr page (@skinnerhousebooks), and Pinterest (@skinnerhousebks)
- Advertising in print publications (ads in Poets & Writers, The Writer, Publishers Weekly, and featured in the Great Reads section in Sojourners) and online (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Sojo Mail, LitHub, Book Riot)
- Promotion during NaNoWriMo, writing conferences, and the holiday gifting season.
- Events a mixture of in-person and online.
