The Full Catastrophe has arrived!
A quick note this month, because...it's book launch week!
Me in Bergen, Norway, August 2023, dreaming of this day!
New of the Day!
February’s issue of Embracing the Full Catastrophe will be brief, because….
That’s right, The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared, the book you’ve been hearing about in this Substack for a year now, has made its way into the world.
I have so many of you to thank for your endless support in the form of sharing my story with friends, connecting me with others who can help get the word out, recommending it to your book clubs, reading an advanced reader copy and reviewing on Goodreads, and/or preordering. YOU did this!
A piece of guidance:
If you’ve ordered since late last week or plan to order today, please send me an email (cmwalsh9702@gmail.com) so I can add you to the zoom call at 7 p.m. EST tonight, 2/18/25. The preorder page on my website is no longer active.
And, though I hate to ask, one last request:
If you reviewed The Full Catastrophe on Goodreads, would you take a moment today or in the next few days to cut and paste from Goodreads to Amazon?
and
If you’re just receiving your copy now, would you please post a review to Amazon when you’re done?
I’ll share here, as I have before, a succinct article by the eternal font of writerly wisdom,
, about the importance of reviews to indie authors.Your support this past week has been overwhelming. Take a look!
and so many more, too many to count.
This review by
for The Linden Review was so beautifully written it brought me to tears:And, finally:
More than anything, this journey has shown me how lucky I am to have such wonderful friends, the ones I’ve known and loved in real life for years and those I’ve met along the way who may not be writers but are thoughtful humans, each living life as best they can and weathering the losses we all eventually face.
Then there are those of us in the writing community who have loved each other real, like the Velveteen Rabbit. While most of these, who I count as friends, live far away, here’s what one local writer friend did for me this week.
will never know how much it meant to me!
While launch day is exciting (especially for the writer, some of whom—read: me—have labored over their stories for more than a decade), it’s not the end…it’s only the beginning.
While there are three wonderful events occurring this week, other plans are in the works, ones I’m excited to share with you in the months ahead.
That’s all for now. Thank you so much, each of you, for reading this far, for sharing, and for joining this growing community of folks who believe in the importance of holding each other up through all life throws our way. As the sticker on my car’s rear window proclaims, “You Matter.”
If you’re local and are interested in attending any of the launch events I wrote about last month (Glennpeter Jewelers Family Heart Foundation Fundraiser on 2/20/25, 5:30 - 7:30 pm, or the event at Battenkill Books in Cambridge, NY, on 2/22/25 at 2 pm, where I’ll be in conversation with author
), please get in touch for more information—or just come!In a Flash opens for submissions on the theme of LIGHT from April 1 -15. If you’re a flash creative nonfiction writer, we’d love to see your work in our queue.
And as always, if your LDL-C cholesterol is over 190, doesn’t change with lifestyle modifications, and you have a family history of early heart events, you could have FH. And ask your physician to test your Lp(a) (say it: “L-P-little a”), since it’s elevated in 1 in 5 individuals yet is hardly ever checked. Feel free to get in touch so I can show you the way to the information you need, or learn more here.
Till next time,
Will get to these!
Wahoo!!!