A Handful of Seawater

Now at Amazon

2009-12-25T09:10:00.001-06:00

A Handful of Seawater is now available at Amazon.com, both in paperback and, by 12/31, for Kindle readers. It should also be available, through special order, at all booksellers.

I'd appreciate your going to Amazon and Lulu.com and adding a brief review of the book. It means a lot to prospective buyers if they can see some response from people who've read the book.

Lulu.com now has free shipping for single book orders; just enter FREEMAIL305 when you check out for a credit that should cover the shipping.

Thanks for reading,

Ron

A Handful of Seawater is Published

2009-10-18T09:10:00.005-05:00

The book is available now for purchase. Just click on the [Buy it now] button at the right to go to the purchase page. You can either buy the paperback or download the eBook.

I'm pleased with the book; it's been well-received by the early readers who were all mature women.

The story is primarily about an orphan trying to reconnect with something that he lost when his mother died. The story follows the boy from birth to early adulthood.

The book is written for mature women and is not salacious but there are three brief sex scenes. I think women with sons will appreciate the relationship between the boy and his mother, and between the boy and the other women in the story.

Anyone interested in other cultures will be entertained. The Grenadian culture is one of a former British colony, now inhabited by the descendants of the slaves who were abandoned on the island when slavery ended and sugar production in the West Indies was no longer profitable.

I hope you like it and tell your friends. I'm going to rely on word-of-mouth to sell the book.

Please post a review of the book on Lulu.com and feel free to comment on this blog.

Thanks for your help,

Ron

Why I wrote the book

2009-10-12T07:22:00.001-05:00

As I was reading the proof copy of the book, it dawned on me; this is about my mother. Mom died in 2002. I started the book in 2003 as a few short stories for creative writing courses at Northwest Florida State College. The main theme of the book is about a boy dealing with the loss of his mother when he was a small child. I lost my mother as an old man but that wouldn't have made much of a story.

I also realized that the book came from grieving for many of the things I've lost since 1988. Much of that grief is about leaving Grenada; I wanted to spend the rest of my life there. I still feel after 20 years that my heart is there and I'll never recover it fully. Some of the grief is about losing a daughter that meant the world to me. And there's grief about my own youth and how I misused the potential.

But the book isn't a sad book. It's a little sad at the beginning but it gets a lot better. The book is about spiritual growth--learning who we really are and how to recognize important things and not hold onto unimportant things.

As `Abdu'l Bahá said, "If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait?"

Keep reading,

Ron