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Houston, We Do Not Have a Problem at All.
IngramSpark runs on a delay so the numbers I have are not the full picture. But here is what I can see.
May June 24th Be With You. Parenting Unpacked Is Available Today.
It is June 24th. Parenting Unpacked is available today.
It Sold. Parenting Unpacked Just Got Its First Pre-Order.
Parenting Unpacked just sold its first pre-order. A printed copy to a reader in the United Kingdom.
I Had a Call With Ruth Van Reken. My Face Did the Thing: 🥴
I explained the demarketing strategy. It makes more sense the longer I talk about it. I am not sure I had enough time. And then we got to the SIETAR Valencia presentation and the conversation became something else entirely.
Wait. What? Parenting Unpacked Is Now Available for Pre-Order.
I went to check on Parenting Unpacked on Amazon. Normal anxious author behaviour. And there it was.
Three Books. One Arc.
People sometimes ask which book to start with. Honest answer: it does not matter. This is not Lord of the Rings.
Her Son Asked How to Stop Missing Grandma. She Told Him the Only True Thing.
Jean told me about Daniele. A friend, a conversation, a name passed along the way names travel when you are building something and someone says: you should speak to her.
She Would Have Appreciated a Warning About the Silence.
Dani Balieiro Amorim moved to Austin as a journalist correspondent. When the circumstances that had made it possible collapsed she did not tell anyone. She returned to the city she had left and resumed a life she had told everyone she was finished with.
What Actually Happens Inside Your Brain When You Move Countries. Janaina de Carvalho Explains.
I asked Janaina de Carvalho the neuropsychological questions because I wanted to understand what was actually happening inside the head of the woman who cannot find the heating in a Swiss apartment because it comes from the floor and she has been looking at walls.
She Watched Her Son Eat Rice and Dal With His Fingers. That Was the Point.
I found Cristiane Scheid on Instagram while researching Parenting Unpacked. She had moved to India with her husband and son, had her second child there, and is now in Mexico.
How Do You Know When You Have Adapted Too Much? I Asked Aline França Right To Her Face.
I have been on a rampage lately of asking the people who live and work inside this territory questions I am genuinely curious about.
“Identity Loss Doesn’t Happen All at Once.” Dr. Débora Pasin on What Parenting Unpacked Gets Right.
What happens when a linguist and PhD researcher with 28 years of experience reads Parenting Unpacked? Dr. Débora Pasin breaks down the silent transformations of relocation, identity loss in expat mothers, and why the book gives language to the everyday moments that make us question who we are.
Rima Sent Me Notes While She Was Still Reading. L-O-V-E-D it!
Most of the time I send an advanced copy and then I wait. Rima Elahi-Syed did something nobody else had done before.
What Is the Inherited Scorecard?
The inherited scorecard is the set of standards you absorbed without noticing. What a good parent looks like. What success looks like. What kind of life is considered worth wanting.
I Submitted the Book for the Print Test. Then I Ate an Entire Bag of Chocolate Covered Pretzels.
In the next couple of weeks I will see the physical book for the first time. I was trying to stay calm.
I Posted Casually on Instagram. Here Is What I Put There and Why.
The account has nine followers at the time of writing this, one of whom I am fairly sure is my husband being supportive.
My Book Designer Came Up With an Idea So Good I Thought She Was Flirting With Me.
When she told me I had a very strong impulse to make a joke. I stayed professional. I am telling you the joke now.
I probably should not be doing this.
But the interior of Parenting Unpacked is looking incredible and I cannot help myself.
Here is a random thought.
I find it funny every time I explain to a new author that Parenting Unpacked went through five versions before I found the one. Five versions, not five edits.