It's a Go!
German academic publisher VDM Verlag has agreed to pick up my 2003 masters thesis project Depending on the Light: Writing My Change in Sexual Orientation. I am excited about this news, as I mentioned earlier. For one, I believe there's a significant audience for it, and two, I am hoping it will lead to a U.S. release. The climate in Europe, so far as I can tell, has been increasingly secular over the last 50 years, even moreso than here in the States, so VDM Verlag's decision to acquire this project still strikes me as odd, but fortuitous. I will update a few sources before I submit the manuscript to them late next week.I make no bones that God was the primary agent in my drift out of lesbianism, and in fact dared Him to change me, since I had no desire (or resources) to do so. That's the crux of the project: the documenting of my process through journal entries, poetry, fiction, and essays, along with a somewhat fictionalized narrative that spans adolescence through my college years. I also add the voices of other women who have experienced this same drift, either with or without God, writer Jan Clausen among them. I do not know what the future holds for this work, but it has languished since its completion in 2003 despite my efforts to place it with numerous houses. Good news comes from the strangest places.
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American University in Cairo
University of Northern Colorado
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Spring’s Edge: A Ranch Wife’s Chronicles
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2 comments:
Congratulatons! How wonderful to know of this work from days back at Margie's. Way to hang in there!
AL
Thanks! It's been a long haul, and sometimes, I think it's best just to let writing "fester" in the desk drawer for a while. Who knows?
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