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In this edition of my very sporadic newsletter:
Cover Reveal: The U.S. Edition of Distress Signals | Upcoming Events including The Business of Self-Publishing | The Epic Debrief: The Story of the Launch of Distress Signals | Not One, Not Two But THREE Embarrassing Old Photos of Me
The U.S. Cover of Distress Signals is Here!
I'm so excited to finally be able to share with you the U.S. cover of Distress Signals, which I absolutely adore.
It will be published by Blackstone in North America on November 8th 2016 (does that date ring a bell? It's the day of the U.S. presidential election!) in hardcover, e-book and audio download. What do you think? Tweet me your thoughts @cathryanhoward using the hashtag #DistressSignals.
If you want to be very organised, you can pre-order the hardcover edition on Amazon.com now. For those of you in Ireland, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, Distress Signals is out now in paperback, e-book and audio download. Find out more about it here.
I'm currently working with a (fabulous) editor to ready the book for a U.S. audience and even though I've lived there, live exclusively on a diet of American TV and consider myself well up on all my U.S. vs British/Irish English words - although it did take me an age to realise that arugula was rocket and zucchini was courgette - it has been an eye-opening experience. I'm learning all sorts of new words and phrases. Am I the last person in the world to hear "gut buster"? Perhaps!
Upcoming Events
For those of you in or near Cork, I'll be signing copies of Distress Signals at Eason Mahon Point on Saturday 18th June at 2pm.
The Epic Debrief: The Story of the Launch of Distress Signals
Thankfully life has returned to normal now, but the two weeks around the publication date of Distress Signals were both the most exciting and the most stressful ever! If you missed it on the blog last week, I wrote a long - even for me - blog post about all the fun, stress and industrial-strength shaping underwear of it. You can read it here.
Not One, Not Two But THREE Embarrassing Old Photos of Me
To help launch Distress Signals, I wrote a blog post for Mark Hill about the dark side of the holiday (vacation) industry which I witnessed firsthand when I was, first of all, a campsite courier on a resort on the Western Mediterranean coast of France and then a front desk agent in a 2,000+ room hotel in Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
The blog post is here but you might want to wait until after your summer vacation to read it. In the meantime, I thought I'd share these pictures of a much younger me at work in these places. (The navy T-shirt pic is from when I worked at the training venue for the campsite company - we wore them with chinos, which if you've read Distress Signals, might ring a bell. Butter wouldn't melt, right?) And surely my campsite courier uniform is what Santa's elves wear when they go on holiday...
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So that's all folks - for now. In an unexpected turn of events, I find myself updating my Facebook author page the most these days. (Yes, this from the girl who wrote a blog post not too long along called Closing the Facebook. Duh.) I think it's because (a) it reaches both my online connections and the family and friends I've forced to "like" my page, (b) updates have a greater shelf life than they do on Twitter where tweets can easily get lost in the maelstrom and (c) I can add all sorts: photos, videos, links and longer statuses which, if you've been reading my blog at all - or even just this paragraph - you'll know suits me down to the ground. If you haven't already, you can visit my author page at:
Bye for now!
Catherine x
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