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I have made myself a promise to stay out of my editor’s hair (a ridiculous, if not hilarious image!).  I have my mother’s 1957 letters to transcribe yet, about 50 of them.  They cover the end of my 5th year right before we moved to Alaska.  Then there are a few letters from the 1960s I have to do.

SO – I was just out picking rocks from the edge of a dirt road near here to use in my backyard adobe patio project – when the title for the upcoming book on my mother’s letters HIT ME square between the eyes – I swear.

Now, don’t tell anybody until I nail down the rest of the title for sure, but this is IT!

I am so excited!  There’s not one single book that comes up over on Amazon.com related to this – as if the universe has waited specifically for my mother’s letters for this title to be born:

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An Unspeakable Madness

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What I will add after that is only tweaking.  ‘The writings of a severely abusive (undiagnosed) Borderline mother’  should be in the title as far as I am concerned.  I will divide them into two volumes:

Pre-Alaskan Homesteading Saga and Post-Alaskan Homesteading Saga.

I will have to decide if I am going to remove my comments that I have inserted into her text – I probably will for these volumes.

I will be publishing these two books on Kindle – probably way too cheaply, but check out the selling stats  on this blog for this literary medium:

Kindle Numbers: Traditional Publishing Vs. Self Publishing

I want to have The Devil’s Child title firm so I can clearly market its upcoming publication with my mother’s writings.  I can include the ‘360 Degrees of Change’, also – plus……  I need the $3300 to have 500 copies printed of Devil’s Child when that goes live on Kindle – plus a pdf self-print version – need cash – am broke – so go nutty (deceased) mother, go!

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I also arrived at another book title last week:

360 Degrees of Change For Survivors of Difficult Childhoods

This book, based loosely on the 12-step style daily reminder books, is not going to be set up as such.  Rather the basis for my thinking about this book is more closely aligned with the concept of the Native American Medicine Wheel.

This book will have 360 points (which I have already identified) related to attachment, physiological developmental changes from early trauma, how we survive while we have no clue what really happened to us, and what the process of discovery and disclosure can be like once we recognize the facts.

I am taking on the challenging task of simplifying extremely complicated neuroscientific research on infant-child development and the consequences of trauma into approximately two light-reading paragraphs per point (or degree).  Readers can browse, scan, skip around, read head on and straight through – but whatever the process, once a reader begins and ends their reading of this book – if they haven’t previously been over here on this blog – they will be changed forever.  I believe that.

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I also suspect that I need to write at least two separate books of essays, but I have enough to do right now without worrying too much about this – unless I really do decide to get my ten ISBNs for the price of one – which would mean I need to get very clear and nail down titles.

Gotta run.  Sunset and a fresh cup of decaf are calling!  Along with 50 1957 letters…..

I would not be doing this stage of work now without all this blog’s readers’ encouragement – thank you!

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