“Everything happens for a reason” greetings card, one of five different designs

‘Tis the season of giving, and at last the Endangered Alphabets offers gifts that are not only (a) unlike any gifts anyone is going to get from anyone else, and (b) a wonderful way to support the continuing research and education goals of the Endangered Alphabets Project, but actually (c) affordable. And they are here.

Cham E iPhone case

Seriously. Framed prints of the carvings, greeting cards of the carvings, tote bags and iPhone cases and laptop skins and wall clocks of the carvings–I think you can even get an Endangered Alphabets shower curtain. Check out http://society6.com/endangeredalphabets and see!

The latest Endangered Alphabets mug

Cover designed by the amazing Martin Simpson

My new book, First Time Author, came out on Saturday night at a launch party hosted by Champlain Books in Burlington. I think of it as a minefield map. It’s not a how-to-write-a-book template, but a guide to many of the ways in which someone setting out to write a book for the first time may go wrong, and how to survive those moments of confusion and self-doubt, how to avoid self-sabotage. I’ve now written 14 books myself, and I’ve helped dozens of others write their first book, so I know where the mines are buried. Anyone you know who is thinking of writing a book should have a copy.

To order it, visit champlainbooks.com.

To see an interview on RETN about the book and Shelagh Shapiro’s novel The Shape of the Sky, click here.

Thanks!