I’m thrilled and honored to announce that I recently signed a contract to write my first book! I began writing online in 2009; but I was writing, of course, long before then. Writing has been part of my life since I was a child. I’ve always wanted to write a book, but I didn’t know when or what the subject matter would be. I’ve written short stories and poetry–but as it turns out, this is going to be a nonfiction book, and the topic is ethnic loneliness. The photo above is me signing the contract.
I didn’t know I’d write about this topic, especially publicly, but you you know what–that’s sometimes how writing is. Joan Didion wrote, “I write to know what I think,” and this is part of the mystery of writing. We don’t always know what will result from our scribblings. We may have an idea, and that idea may lead to something else, and so on. It is a formative process, and we learn as we go. So this topic, although in a sense I’ve been writing and preparing for this topic all of my life, I didn’t actually name it and have this particular idea take shape as a potential writing project until the past 2-3 years.
I’m deeply grateful to InterVarsity Press for believing in me and this project. I’m working hard and excited to see this project take shape. It’s a dream come true.
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