I just learned today that one of my first things that I ever published, a book of my sisters poems, is still in print after a decade. A church member brought it to my attention. They found it after a Google search of my name turned it up on Amazon.com.
I'm amazed and confused, I've published half a dozen books. yet this one, my first, is still in print!
I have to admit, this is not my finest work, I am, however, more proud of this publication than I am of all my work as a whole.
This particular work, is a collection of my late sisters poems. The poems were found in a shoe box under her bed after her passing.
My father had them transcribed and typed onto individual pages. This was in the early 1980's, they were actually typed on a typewriter, on a standard typing paper. My mother had possession of them until the death of my father, some 20 years after he passing of my sister.
She gave them to me in the early 2000's. Yellowing and fragile, but continuing to survive.
I had to go through and retype each poem, my sister's thoughts, and place them on a transferable electronic media. One of the most difficult task, emotionally, that I have ever performed.
This was my first attempt at self publishing, it was simple and sophomoric. Yet I am (again) more proud of it than I am of "The Tail of the Wolf" my largest novel. Or any of my publications.
To any that are interested, I am very pleased that it survived and is still in publication.
photo of Kelly Lynn Wolf 10-28-1964 to 4-24-1982
Here is the link to her poems on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Kelly%20Wolf&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3AKelly%20Wolf&page=1
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