Tuesday Morning Book Talk

I have attended the Tuesday Morning Book Talk, led by Dr. Emily Auerbach for years.  So many years I’m not sure how many but I’m guessing more than ten years.  When I launched my book I sent her a copy and asked if she would consider including it as a book for our Tuesday Moring Book Talk.  Months went by and I never received a response.  I didn’t understand because we’ve communicated by e-mail many times.  I finally mustered the courage to ask her about it after one of our Tuesday morning sessions.  I learned that the university e-mail system had changed and she was having a problem that her e-mails were getting filtered and deleted as scam.

At our last two classes in April she invited our group members to submit books to read in our fall 2014 group.  I didn’t say anything in class because I felt I had already been bold to suggest my own book.  She did send me an e-mail to ask if Marshall Cook would be willing to lead the discussion if she included my book.  Of course, he agreed.

Several weeks ago I received an e-mail from Marshall telling me my book had been selected but no details on the date.  Then he sent me a follow-up e-mail telling me it would be discussed on October 28th.  I was both overwhelmed and exhilarated, Marshall even published the date and time in his e-zine Extra Innings and invited readers to attend.

I was confused that I never head directly from Emily.  Yesterday, I received the notice for the Fall 2014 Booktalks and there I am, listed on October 28th and 9:30 a.m.  I’ve never received the notice in the mail previously, so my guess is that is Emily’s very subtle message that she’s selected my book.

It is a great honor to have Emily read my book and decide it is worthy of discussion by our book club.  As an independent author/publisher it just doesn’t get any better. 

Here is some information to follow-up:

October 28, 2014 9:30 a.m.                                                Registration:  608-262-2451 or
Madison Public Library – 3rd Floor                    http://www.dcs.wisc.edu/classes/literature.htm     201 W. Mifflin St.
Madison, WI