Living with Scleroderma

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Line of Flight

And the Winner Is . . .

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And now, a detour from scleroderma and related complexities . . .

As I shared back in March, my World War I historical novel, Line of Flight, at long last has found a publisher, Köehler Books. Over the past couple of months, I’ve been working with their excellent team, preparing for publication on November 17. We went through two rounds of manuscript edits, which turned out to be a productive, painless process. In fact, the text remains largely as written. Kudos to my editor, Joe Cocarro, who caught some important issues with foreshadowing and other details that needed fixing. I was grateful for that and for the vote of confidence in my work (and for learning that when the word ‘then’ is used to denote order of actions, it is not preceded by a comma.)

Recently I have been reviewing text layout and cover designs by Catherine Herold. It’s wonderful to see my words shaping up into book format, and she has been very skilled at creating covers that realize my vision.

Now, here comes the fun part: You get to vote on your favorite cover design! We’ve narrowed it down to two. You’ll see a summary of the novel as well as the two choices in this link.

Your input matters! I really appreciate your participation.

Evelyn Herwitz blogs weekly about living fully with chronic disease, the inside of baseballs, turtles and frogs, J.S. Bach, the meaning of life and whatever else she happens to be thinking about at livingwithscleroderma.com. Please view Privacy Policy here.

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And Now for Something Completely Different

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When I am not writing about living with scleroderma or helping my clients with marketing and communications strategy, I pursue my own writing. Fiction, that is—historical fiction, in particular.

Back in 2014, I began working on a novel set in World War I about a mother whose estranged daughter runs off with her beau to drive ambulances for the French war effort, and the mother’s journey to bring her back home. It took seven years to research and write, and it’s taken another four-and-a-half years of searching for a literary agent and/or publisher. But persistence finally paid off, and I’m thrilled to share that my debut novel, Line of Flight, will be published by Köehler Books this December.

I write about the process of creating historical fiction on my Substack, History Making, and you can read a bit more about how this all came about here.

You’ll also find a bunch of essays there about how I researched the novel, as well as the novel I’m working on now regarding art and censorship in Weimar Germany.

As I’ve written here before, we are all much, much more than our diagnoses. In my heart of hearts, I’m an artist. Words are my medium. I’ll be sure to post here when the book is ready for pre-order, for anyone who’d like to read about something other than living with scleroderma. Thanks.

Evelyn Herwitz blogs weekly about living fully with chronic disease, the inside of baseballs, turtles and frogs, J.S. Bach, the meaning of life and whatever else she happens to be thinking about at livingwithscleroderma.com. Please view Privacy Policy here.

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