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The Waiting For Spring Book Klub doesn't begin until November, but I thought I'd jump in now to say hi. (Hi!)
I originally self-published Waiting For Spring in early 2008. It was subsequently picked up by AmazonEncore and re-released in May of this year. (You can read about that here, if you're interested in how that came about.) Those of you who have read the self-published edition may be wondering what differences there are between it and the Encore edition, and if those differences are significant enough to warrant a repurchase or to affect the discussion. The answer: Encore made very few changes. The manuscript was given a very thorough copy editing, there are a couple of passages that I cut out of the edition I published that were added back in, and a minor change in a decision Tess makes regarding her employment. In my opinion, none of the minor changes affect the story significantly enough for a repurchase, but I'll leave that up to you. When the Klub gets to the chapters with the changes I'll point them out, with direct excerpts from both editions, and we can talk about the differences and why changes were made.
In the meantime, I'm working on some specific questions and points of discussion for November. If any of you have read the book and have anything in particular you'd like to discuss then, feel free to let me know in this thread. I'm looking forward to talking with you, both now and in November!
- Waiting For Spring (Official synopsis): "The pain in Tess Dyer's heart stems from a lifetime of rejection: by her distant mother, by a string of one-night stands, and by her husband, Jason. He promised to love her forever, yet here she is, divorced and shunned in her own town. She tries everything to dull the pain: sex, work, and endlessly cleaning the house. Finally, in a fit of despair, she abandons the small town of Brookfield, Maine, for an even smaller town, determined to start over with a clean slate. But she can't run from the demons in her head, and she soon falls back on her old habits, this time with the help of her sexy new neighbor Brian. Though she tells herself he is just a warm body to dull the pain, his kindness has a soothing effect on her bruised heart. But the fear of losing his love is always there, and before long, Tess's past threatens to destroy her fragile new happiness. Ultimately, she must make a choice: continue drifting through life, or confront the cruel realities of her past and start living. A dramatic departure from contemporary chick-lit, Waiting for Spring is a moving novel about a real woman struggling to find her place in the world."
I originally self-published Waiting For Spring in early 2008. It was subsequently picked up by AmazonEncore and re-released in May of this year. (You can read about that here, if you're interested in how that came about.) Those of you who have read the self-published edition may be wondering what differences there are between it and the Encore edition, and if those differences are significant enough to warrant a repurchase or to affect the discussion. The answer: Encore made very few changes. The manuscript was given a very thorough copy editing, there are a couple of passages that I cut out of the edition I published that were added back in, and a minor change in a decision Tess makes regarding her employment. In my opinion, none of the minor changes affect the story significantly enough for a repurchase, but I'll leave that up to you. When the Klub gets to the chapters with the changes I'll point them out, with direct excerpts from both editions, and we can talk about the differences and why changes were made.
In the meantime, I'm working on some specific questions and points of discussion for November. If any of you have read the book and have anything in particular you'd like to discuss then, feel free to let me know in this thread. I'm looking forward to talking with you, both now and in November!
