Ah, Too Much of Nothing turns out to be a lot of SOMETHING!!

It is exciting to see the response to my book release. I am humbled by the encouragement, the delight, the validation I am receiving from friends and acquaintances. At the same time, it is difficult to feel like I am constantly seeking the limelight. . . . But so much has gone into this book. Like child rearing, book writing takes a village. The people I shared the MFA experience with at Columbia — my cohorts Livia Lakomy, Elizabeth Walters, Sukriti, Lacy Warner, Mahad Zara, Andrew Lewis, Sean Quinn and a few others — took me seriously, convinced me that I had something to say worth reading. My friends Mari Alkus Bonomi, Bea Schwarz, Maryanne Aubin, Gail Gallagher, Peter MacIntyre and a few others stood patiently on the sidelines with streamers and megaphones yelling, “Go girl!” My first editor E.B. Bartles made mammoth suggestions and intelligent edits. Then Caroline Topperman, at Ash Mountain Press, did the next deep and deeply insightful edit, after which Andi Cumbo added her own kind of brilliance. . . . You get the picture. This is my first solo book, but I don’t plan to allow it to be the last, and every moment of this process encourages me to press onward.