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ONE
DAY UNTIL THE OFFICIAL RELEASE! (Also, if you want to buy a copy and haven’t yet,
tomorrow is the perfect day to do it and benefit us authors. Amazon
likes it when there’s an uptick in purchases on a single day.)
Now
let’s talk about how nifty Kathy Cowley is!
In
the process of joining this project, I let Kathy know that I was willing to do some of the copyediting/proofing. I felt so privileged to be able to
help with a little bit of this work, and it meant I got a preview of many of
the stories along the way. In doing this, I also got to make friends with Kathy
Cowley, and I consider that definitely one of the highlights of working on Unspun. I’d already read and loved some of her flash fiction. (“Celestial Accounting” in last year’s Mormon Lit Blitz was my favorite piece other than
mine. It is so good! Also, “The Last Bathroom” is just the right level of weird-but-fun.) So getting to know her as a person was fantastic.
In
looking at her blog again to find links to some of her stories, I made an
amazing discovery. Kathy wrote “In Which Eve Names Everything Else,” one of my
favorite pieces from a different year’s Mormon Lit Blitz too! I had no idea
this one was hers, but people, it is beautiful. Kathy just keeps getting cooler
and cooler the more I know about her.
We’d
been working together for a few months when she emailed to let me know she
would be visiting family in Arlington—and did I want to get together for
dessert somewhere in between there and here? Yes! Of course! I will even brave
my driving phobia about new places!
So
we met up at a restaurant one night and sat and ate tremendous quantities of
cheese (no dessert in the end, but the cheese was definitely worth skipping the
cake). We talked writing, our latest projects, family, etc. As expected, Kathy
is as fun and cool in person as via email and phone (and on the phone she
sounds like one of my dearest friends, Sariah). She’s working right now on a
book that just sounds so very fun (if I get permission, I’ll tell you what it
is).
Kathy
took on so much of this project. It absolutely wouldn’t be the lovely book that
it is without her. She coordinated people, arranged multiple edits, and probably
did about a thousand other things that I don’t know about. Oh, and did I
mention she did all the interior design?
Since
we met, she has also given me fantastic (and speedy) critiques of a ton of my
short stories, and her suggestions have been invaluable in them all. Finding a
great critique friend is awesome, and I’m so glad to add her as one of mine.
Anyway,
I’ll stop fangirling now. Let’s just say she’s awesome, and when she publishes more books, you should go buy them. Immediately.
The
End.
P.S. Her website is down at the moment (stinky hackers!), but as soon as it is back up, you should go check it out.
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