Pre-order BONE WEAVING, my fifth poetry collection, which will be available at midnight on June 11th, 2023.
The release date is no ordinary, insignificant, random date. June 11th would have been my Gramma Edith's 89th birthday, and it is wholly dedicated to her.
For a while, I was struggling with how to string this little masterpiece together because I couldn't figure out how she was supposed to end or what she was supposed to be. A lot of the poems you'll read in the first chapter were Carnage rejects. I deemed them too intense for it, or felt they'd deviated too far from its core themes.
So, fast-forward to months later: all I had was a title, a sloppy manuscript I wasn't happy with, and I was wrestling with it too much. I knew from the beginning I wanted Bone Weaving to be a chapbook, but suddenly, I was looking at almost 100 pages. I had bitten off more than I could chew. It was unbalanced, chaotic, and had an extremely weak conclusion. I knew it wasn't anywhere close to what it needed to be, even though I didn't know what that was. Overwhelmed by the sheer volume of poems and all the self-inflicted pressure self-publishing comes with, I'd completely lost my vision for it.
Then January came, and Gramma Edith was gone. She was a truly inspirational, godly woman, and one of my biggest fans. I knew that this book would be dedicated to her, even in the midst of that heavy heartache. So, once I was able to drag myself back to the manuscript, I completely gutted it. Broke it down to its foundations. I wanted to write a book she would be proud of. And she was always telling us that, if we weren't being treated right, to leave and go find better because we deserved to be loved unconditionally.
Bone Weaving was written for anyone who has ever loved or trusted someone with their whole heart and had your vulnerability taken advantage of. To the betrayed, to the broken, to the traumatized, to the grieving... There is no greater pain than having to find beauty and healing within yourself after a lifetime of believing you were not enough; believing that you can only find validation and your worth in the arms of someone else.
This book is all about grieving the person you used to be, all the love that turned sour, and all the friends that turned their backs on you. If you are questioning whether or not your trauma is valid, if everything was your fault, if it'll ever get easier, this book has the answers.
Pre-order the eBook today.**
**Unfortunately, thanks to the way KDP does things, only the eBook is available for preorder, and with the way the last two book releases went, I can't guarantee that the paperback will be available right away. They've been changing their quality check times so it's been taking hours, even days longer for the manuscript to get approved for distribution. (I say this mostly as a reminder to myself, because it was an incredibly frustrating situation lol)
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