Mercury's Riddles
Book 2 is here, and a conversation with Ronda about Discernment
The last thing most people do when writing a book is write the author’s note for the ending pages. The trend has become that these notes are ever more personal, more of a snapshot of the writer’s life at that moment in time, as well as a long list of thank you notes.
Everyone says it in the author’s note, but I didn’t realize it until actually sitting down to publish books. The support of others is really essential. There is a gulf—an ocean—between writing a complete first draft and publishing a book, even if you ‘self-publish,’ as I am (which in this modern age really means, setting up a publishing company and then using print-on-demand technologies.)
Crossing that gulf means crossing the psychological boundary of sharing something so deeply connected with your own soul and letting it go into the world. And for me, it has been 2 or 3 years each time between a finished first draft and a final published version. I worked on the first two books simultaneously, just as I am working on Book 3 now.
One of the dear friends who has helped me cross that gulf is Ronda, who makes the Practical Steiner podcast and has been a constant encouragement. She has published three episodes where we talk about this book series, and here is the latest one:
The first two episodes are cross posted as video, and they are:
Twelve People Can Change the World
The Many Doppelgängers
Some other notes:
I have not yet released the digital or kindle version, and I removed the Book One digital version from the marketplace because I wasn’t happy with the layout. Possibly later this summer if a week of hours becomes available. I like to use a fair bit of text and image formatting within the pages of the printed book, and this requires effort to translate to digital versions.
The listing on Amazon has a bizarre little quirk where it says I have released 3 books in this series. I have not: it’s only two. Apophenia Gold and Mercury’s Riddles.
Just ordered mine! Can’t wait. After reading The Fifth Sacred Thing years ago, I have been looking for other people writing the new story, but haven’t found many. Your books have an honored place on my shelf!
Book Two is out, yay for the world!