{"id":604,"date":"2006-11-07T21:12:54","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T21:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/redletters\/2006\/11\/the-story-of-pu.html"},"modified":"2006-11-07T21:12:54","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T21:12:54","slug":"the-story-of-pu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2006\/11\/the-story-of-pu.html","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those of you who have hung in there with me and believed in this book project, here’s the conclusion. The publisher has offered a 3-book contract, with options on 3 more books. Here’s what the contract looks like: I will release a non-fiction book (Title yet to be determined) on Africa, the HIV\/AIDS crisis and orphans. This will be followed by a fiction novel based on an orphan living in Swaziland or Rwanda that describes her life, watching her mother die of AIDS, having to sell her body for a loaf of bread, trying to survive at 9 and being the head of her household and taking care of her 3 brothers and sisters, with an incredible twist of hope and redemption. Then, there will be 2 other novels with orphans as the central characters based in China and Russia. If you’re interested in more details of the plot, please email me and I will send you the proposal. I would also love to hear about your ideas as the plot moves forward. Here are the due dates and the release schedule:<\/p>\n

Book one (nonfiction) <\/span><\/span>Due Date: January 1, 2007; <\/span><\/span>Release Date: September, 2007<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Book two (Fiction: Africa) <\/span><\/span>Due Date: June 1, 2007; <\/span><\/span>Release Date: May, 2008<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Book three (Fiction: Russia) <\/span><\/span>Due Date: December 1, 2007; <\/span><\/span>Release Date: September, 2008<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks for all your support on this. I couldn’t do it without you!!!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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