My pace is quickening.
I have just posted my pre-publication draft of The Working with Stories Miscellany: Essays and Other Writings on Participatory Narrative Inquiry. It's on the "More" page of workingwithstories.org.
The new miscellany book (formerly called "In Depth") comes to about 420 pages. It brings together 38 pieces of writing that didn't make it into the third edition of Working with Stories, were removed from its fourth edition, or floated up from a blog post. I organized and updated all of the pieces of writing, leaving out another 25 or so pieces that didn't make the cut.
Next I will turn my attention to the last book in the series: The Working with Stories Sourcebook: Questions and Cases for Participatory Narrative Inquiry. For that I just have to write some more question sets and clean up some case studies. After that, I will begin to prepare all four books for publication: proofreading, adding indexes, finishing the book covers, and setting up the print and Kindle versions.
I need blurbs!
On the back of the third edition of Working with Stories I put some blurbs written by anonymous readers of the book. All of them came to me unsolicited in emails. I did that because I'm not a fan of reciprocal blurb networks. I like blurbs to be about books, not about how famous blurbers are.
I would love to put more anonymous reader blurbs on my new book covers. If you have read Working with Stories and would like to say something about it to its future readers, please send me a blurb (cfkurtz at cfkurtz dot com).
If I get ten blurbs, they will all go on the book covers. If I get 50 blurbs, I'll put some on the book covers and some inside the books. Either way, I'd like to ask for your help describing the value of these books to potential readers. Saying "I wrote these books because they wouldn't leave me alone until I did" doesn't sell books. Maybe you can help me say something better.
