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Excerpt: 51 Days In Isolation

Many thanks to all of those people who have bought my first book, Reflections in a Paper Mirror, a collection of poetry.  As you know, I am working on a book for the start of 2008, From the Darkness.  While working on that, I also started another book, titled 51 Days in Isolation.  What follows below is an excerpt from that work-in-progress manuscript.

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The day I got the call, I was busy.  Of course I was busy. I was always busy.  I’d been busy for nearly five years since starting my new position as Marketing Manager for Leavy and Wilks.  I’d been so busy that I hadn’t been home to Sault Ste. Marie in that five year span. I’d called home diligently every Wednesday evening, inquiring how things were, hearing about what was new and things like that, but I hadn’t been home. 

The day I got the call, I had just completed a major presentation to a client.  It had gone well.  I was at the top of my game that day and felt great.  My cell phone rang, and when I answered my mother’s voice floated out to me in a disembodied kind of way.

“Can you come home Gulio?  You’re father is sick,” she said.

Reflections in a Paper Mirror Published

Well here is an update...my first book has been published!!!! You can find it currently at places like Amazon (click here to see it) and Target (click here). It will appear in other online places as well. I am planning a book launch party here in Toronto but haven't yet firmed up the date. It has been a tremendous experience pulling this book together, my many thanks to my family, my wife Sofia and my two children, who have encouraged me through this process.

With this project completed, I have begun work on my next book, a piece of fiction, five short stories that tell a single story. The book title for that piece of work is From the Darkness and I am hoping to complete it in late 2007 or early 2008.

If you would like to order Reflections in a Paper Mirror, you can do so online at locations I mentioned above or you can email me directly.

reflections in a paper mirror

it is all done.  within the next short while my first published book will become available.  when it does i'll post a link to it on amazon.com here on my writecast blog.  i have a mixed set of emotions as this book prepares to come out: excitement, wonder, fear, and reflectiveness. i've posted to the left a shot of the back/front cover of the book - it still seems so surreal to me. 

and with that "in the can" so to speak (i.e., finally done) - i've now begun to focus on my next book which will be a story told through a collection of  short stories, some of which you have seen here on the writecast. 

thanks to all for sticking with me through the writing process!
more to come! 
michael

Cover Sample for Upcoming Book

I thought I'd share here the proof / design for my upcoming book which is a collection of poetry.  I really like how the designer has captured a sence of self-reflection.  Would love to hear your thoughts on the design.  You can click on the image to make it larger.

I'm really looking forward to seeing my work in print.  I am nearing the end of my final edit.  This book will contain approximately 70 poems I have written over the past number of years.