by Andi | Nov 27, 2013 | Andi's Book, Written and Wrought
So The Slaves Have Names is done, almost. The electronic version is up and selling, and I should get the proof for the print version in the next day or so, and print sales can then begin. When it was happening, getting it to print felt like the hardest part. Before... by Andi | Nov 26, 2013 | Andi's Book, Written and Wrought
When I started writing The Slave Have Names I knew just a very few things about slavery in the antebellum South (and the word antebellum was not one of them.) I knew where the Mason-Dixon line was because I drove across it often and read the sign. I knew that black... by Andi | Nov 25, 2013 | Andi's Book, Written and Wrought
It’s amazing to me how quickly things happen. . . I send a file, and within hours, people can buy my book. Then, friends share the link, and people start buying it. Also, people start reading, and the kindness in them – the love they have for me –... by Andi | Nov 21, 2013 | Andi's Book, Written and Wrought
The book isn’t quite out yet, but I’m excited to see people already have questions about the people and the place from its pages. I cannot tell you how excited these questions make me as I finish up the final stages of going to press. Here are the most... by Andi | Nov 20, 2013 | Andi's Book, Written and Wrought
On Monday evening about 8:30pm, I almost gave up. I almost decided I couldn’t do this – I couldn’t get this book into the world. It wasn’t the writing or the revising or even the proofreading. It wasn’t the marketing or the publicity....