Ancestor Trouble: The Book Takes Shape
Ancestor Trouble has a cover designed by Rachel Ake! It incorporates family photos, witchcraft testimony, and more from my ancestors.
Ancestor Trouble has a cover designed by Rachel Ake! It incorporates family photos, witchcraft testimony, and more from my ancestors.
My book has a title! It will be called Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation. And I’m putting together a class in Acknowledgement Genealogy.
I’m finishing up endnotes, bibliography, and so forth, and my book will be headed into copyediting before long. Right now it’s slated to be out in March 2022, but the date could shift a little before it’s finalized on the Random House schedule. I hope to share the title with you before long. Maybe even a cover, too. While I . . .
At Medium I wrote about the strangeness of writers being congratulated for the “great material” of a difficult childhood.
I’ve started occasionally posting at Medium for fun. Three times is occasionally, right? Turning People Into Demons: Like QAnon believers, my preacher mom projected Satan onto people she didn’t like Don’t Write the Tedious Thing: At times I thought I had to include this or that thing in my book, then remembered I could do whatever I wanted Ancestor-Focused Spiritual . . .