Please accept my apologies for being such a sporadic writer as of late. Inconsistency is one of my least favorite traits and online, I’ve been extremely inconsistent. However, there are four things coming up in the next couple of months that I thought you simply must know!
1) I am finishing my third book. It does not have a title at this point but I am hoping to email the complete first draft to my publisher by this time next week. It has been the most difficult thing to write because, well, it has caused me to reflect much more deeply and try to use words in the best way possible.
I was 27 when I wrote Mad Church Disease. 29 when I wrote Permission to Speak Freely. I’m almost 33.5 (yes, I celebrate half birthdays) so I pray that whatever maturity I have gained in the last four years shows. This book will release in Spring 2014, likely in April.
2) New website PLUS bringing back the old FlowerDust. Since it has been over three months that I have not been Anne Jackson, I realize I should probably change my website. I hired a talented lad named Sam to work on this and he feverishly is doing so. All of my old domains will redirect to the new website once it has launched (likely in August) as to not lose anyone in the shuffle.
I’m excited to reestablish a home online that is both true to my name and has all the good posts from FlowerDust. If you’ve been around since the beginning, you remember that old FlowerDust.net blog and it’s 1000 posts that we are combing through and refining. So all that material (from 2005 – 2011) will be available again. Woo!
3) New email list opportunities!. Everyone I admire says I need one. I trust them. With the launch of the new website, I will start offering a special email list that has what the website has, but then has a little bit more. I’m excited about the way email lists have returned and I’m excited to share new content with you! What do you think about the resurrection of the email list?
4) I was going to include a fourth thing you must know, but I decided it was worthy of its own little announcement (and no, mom, I’m not pregnant). How about I talk about that one Monday. Cool? Cool.
See you Monday. You will not want to miss this bit of exciting news! If you don’t follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you might want to just in case.
I don’t like hyping things up, but the announcement on Monday is super, super exciting!
Have a great weekend –
Anne Marie Miller
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25 responses to “Four Things You Must Know!”
Great news. I’ll be back on Monday for more good news.
Thanks! :)
I’m so glad you’re bringing back the flowerdust archives! There was a lot of good there that helped me in many ways. Several times I have looked for some of your old posts to forward to friends and was sad to find they weren’t online anymore. I hope you’ll include the post about forgiveness vs. reconciliation and all your writings about mental health and medication.
Thanks, Becky. The Forgiveness one actually has been reposted on this blog just a week or two ago!
Found it! Thanks!
Looking forward to the changes. They all sound good; in fact, I for one have been wondering when you would get to several of those. Oh, and just wondeing – I suspect you now live in the Quad Cities, with Tim, or are you still in Holland, at college?
I moved to the QC in January. School is on hold this year :)
Hear, hear, @Becky!
#blush
Are you sure?
Funny, mom. Funny. Yes. I’m sure.
…and this is a lovely thing.
<3
Yay!!! I’m hoping the announcement has something to do with a U.S. tour that stops in Chicago (I’m still waiting for a response to that email! I’m not giving up on you.)
I am really, really sorry. With this book deadline I have not been a hasty responder to emails. Must delegate. Best bet (since I will be out of town and such for the next month) is to go through my manager, Jim. http://www.chaffeemanagement.com/ >> on the bottom there is a link!
whooo hoooo! So excited to see FlowerDust awesomeness come back :)
Some of it. It’s amazing the pointless things I wrote and some things that are no longer relevant that need to be removed. Thankful for friends that are helping me do this!!! 1000+ posts are A LOT. :)
None of what you wrote is pointless, Ann. It is part of your story. One of those pointless writings could be just what someone else needs. Consider This: if something were pointless, why did God allow you to go through it?
Specially, I meant the one about when I hung up Christmas lights. Two sentences. Those are the pointless ones…(:
I think the email list is a good thing for sure and as always, i appreciate your blog posts! You do a great job.
Thanks Phil!
The suspense over the big announcement is killing me! And I’m in Australia so it will be like Tuesday before I hear about it. Bugger :(
It really is great to have you back in the saddle again, old friend …
Happy news! There is a post of your from 2009 that I wanted to link up to, only to find it had disappeared online. I’ll hang tight and look for it later :)
Thank you! Which post?