The title of this post has been my “affirmation” for the last 21 days of the month of November 2024. the idea of writing affirmations for 21 days comes from my friend and mentor Ruth Fishel, who has published over 25 books and is presently publishing three books at the same time (with different publishers!). She’s 89. She inspires me to keep trying to find the right publisher for my book The Power of Love: How a Nun Became a Revolutionary.
I finished the first version of this book in 2011. It’s about my participation – as a nun – in the DC9 action against Dow Chemical’s production of napalm, nerve gas and defoliants in Vietnam, our subsequent trial and a difficult decision I had to make before our sentencing in 1970. Family members had good reason to ask me to delay publication when I had the book in the hands of an agent and potential publisher.
Since then, they have lifted their objections, and I have revised and re-edited the book as a narrative non-fiction story (254 pages/81,889 words), including photographs, trial transcripts, personal letters, poetry, and prison journals.
I’m ready to submit the book to the right publisher. In preparation, I hope to merge this original blog, began in 2010 to promote The Power of Love with a more recent version of the blog.
Please let me know if you have worked with WordPress to merge blog files! I hope to solve this puzzle today, so the next publisher I approach will see a fresh, current blog! Comments are welcome!
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