Monday, January 28th, 2008...11:29 pm
My first book
Last Friday afternoon, I got a call from the Library at St. Joe’s. They were calling to say that the bound copies of my thesis were in. This afternoon I drove over to pick them up. It was strange to be back on campus, mostly because I didn’t feel much in the way of missing the place, despite having spent the last year and a half there. It served its purpose and I appreciate having had the opportunity to go to school, but I’m also grateful to be done and free from classes.
I haven’t looked at the thesis since I finished it a month ago and as I flipped through it, I was struck by the memory of how much time and effort I had put into string those words and sentences together. It was also lovely to see my writing between two covers, it was a first for me. May this not be the last time.
17 Comments
January 29th, 2008 at 5:53 am
Congratulations! Happy word dancing …
January 29th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Wow. That must be an entirely cool feeling. I’ve only been published in anthological publications (and completely unknown ones, at that), but to have your own binding, your own distinct space in the real world must be something.
January 29th, 2008 at 9:44 am
congrats! I’d love to read it!
January 29th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Yea!!! My daughter is an author!
January 29th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Congratulations Marisa! What a huge accomplishment and to finally see it in print must be awesome.
January 29th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Awesome! Hope it feels good; you deserve it!
January 29th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
kudos to you!!!
January 29th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
I have copies of one of those with my name in the credits. Not nearly as awesome. But I bet it has a lot more math than yours!!
January 29th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
[...] Masters club has grown by 2: Marisa (with a masterful gig at slashfood to boot as well as a published tome) , and Katie (much less lazier than how I did it - she worked full time gig while getting the [...]
January 30th, 2008 at 1:42 am
A bound book is so much better than a diploma to mark your accomplishment. I would absolutely love a chance to read it! Congratulations and I am absolutely positive it is your first book with many more to come! (Your name looks good on that spine, doesn’t it?)
January 30th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
OMG! Congrats, that’s so awesome.
January 30th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Congratulations!! looking forward to the next one.
January 30th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
I’m adding my name to the queue of fans waiting to read it! That’s awesome.
January 31st, 2008 at 12:48 am
Hey folks, thanks for all your positive comments and appreciation. I felt all tingly inside while reading each and every one. Here’s hope that someday I’ll have something a little pretty and more official to be announcing.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:56 am
This is awesome, great work. If you published a book… I’d buy it. If you published two, I’d buy them both.
February 1st, 2008 at 4:29 am
Congrats! It looks so cool!
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:26 pm
We’d love to read it some time, curled up in front of the fireplace and sipping hot chocolate (now that we don’t have cable we are entering that wide world of enjoying the written word again)!
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