Anyone who has worked on a project designing something, like remodeling a house, knows that sometimes it is not the big decisions that faze you, but the little choices.\u00a0 The designer may ask something simple about doors or locksets, like \u201cKnobs or latches?\u201d and you\u2019re way-laid thinking about something you never gave much consideration to before.\u00a0 So it has been with me and front of the book stuff.<\/p>\n
One big stumbling block was deciding whether to have a separate page for thank-you\u2019s.\u00a0 If you have the book, you can see I didn\u2019t.\u00a0 There were many reasons for this, which I\u2019ll get to, but first I want to give a shout out to all the people who worked on Solace in So Many Words<\/em> in a professional capacity. I am grateful to Bob Feie <\/a> who designed the book and the Weighed Words logo.\u00a0 Also due for a big thank-you is Joanne Hurley <\/a> who helped me incorporate Weighed Words and come up with the various contracts I needed.\u00a0 Working behind the scenes is Kate Sloan Fiffer<\/a> who helped with proofreading and social networking. \u00a0\u00a0In California, Eileen Duhne has been guiding me in my efforts \u00a0to publicize the book. \u00a0\u00a0And if you are liking this site, you are admiring the work of Ilsa Brink<\/a>, an artist whose work is most impressive. \u00a0And I also want \u00a0you to check out the books by our publisher Hourglass Books.<\/p>\n I also want to thank the many people who gave advice or influenced me.\u00a0 But that\u2019s a lot of people to thank, and I want to take my time and do it right.\u00a0 So I will do that in the next blog entry and coincidentally introduce you to some terrific people.\u00a0 And of course, I have a lot of gratitude for my contributors, and I will use another entry to tell you what they are doing these days. Back to the thank you page\u2014was I right in not having one?<\/p>\n Here is my background on this issue.\u00a0 Way back in my twenties I worked for a professional organization and edited a journal, which in, as I see it now, youthful hubris, I undertook to redesign.\u00a0 When the new look was introduced, I, as editor, addressed the readers in a letter (not atypical) and spent a good deal of copy thanking those who worked on the design.\u00a0 The editor-in-chief of the organization, a man I sometimes admired for his reticence, commented that my letter sounded like an Oscar acceptance speech.\u00a0 Ouch. That hadn\u2019t been my intention.\u00a0 Apparently though, I had to admit, such praise in print could be seen as self-indulgent. Thirty years later I had this in mind as my book finally was going to print.\u00a0 Plus, I was afraid I\u2019d forget somebody, like Hillary Swank forgot her husband Chad Lowe and then they ended up divorced.\u00a0 Yikes.\u00a0\u00a0 Or, I would spell a name wrong\u2014it could happen.<\/p>\n I took an informal poll.\u00a0 My women writer friends had assumed I\u2019d write one.\u00a0 The men I asked thought a thank-you was unnecessary. Was it somehow less professional to include a page of thank-you? I looked at other books.\u00a0 Some did and some didn\u2019t. Finally, because it was easier, I went without.\u00a0 So, tell me, what would you do in your book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anyone who has worked on a project designing something, like remodeling a house, knows that sometimes it is not the big decisions that faze you, but the little choices.\u00a0 The designer may ask something simple about doors or locksets, like \u201cKnobs or latches?\u201d and you\u2019re way-laid thinking about something you never gave much consideration to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,27,33,24,26,12,23,30,25,29,31,34,13,7,22,32,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-bob-feie","8":"tag-book","9":"tag-design","10":"tag-details","11":"tag-editor","12":"tag-ellen-wade-beals","13":"tag-gratitude","14":"tag-ilsa-brink","15":"tag-indulgent","16":"tag-joanne-hurley","17":"tag-kate-sloan-fiffer","18":"tag-logo","19":"tag-poetry","20":"tag-solace","21":"tag-thanks","22":"tag-weighed-words","23":"tag-wistful","24":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}