For anyone pondering ancestors and their significance for us, I wanted to mention the giveaways I’ve started doing on my newsletter every month, in thanks for Ancestor Trouble pre-orders. I’m giving away two or three books that, in one way or another, fed into or inspired mine. Last month’s mini-library was: Ancestors: The Story of China Told Through the Lives . . .
Hello, old friends and readers! If you’ve been waiting to put down your hard-earned money for my first book, you’re in luck. Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation (Random House, March 2022) can be pre-ordered from your local independent bookstore or your online bookshop of choice. The wonderful Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn is offering signed or personalized copies (be . . .
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 . . .