I took a memoir class in college, and after reading and discussing a good stack of memoirs as a small class, we tried our hand at writing our own.
That was over twenty years ago.
What began as my first attempt at writing a short story version of a memoir is the book I wrote that will be released next May.
And I am so over-the-moon-excited to share the cover with you first, and tell you that Tell Me The Dream Again is now available for pre-order!!!!!
All those years ago, I turned in that first rough-go at a memoir, knowing that the story I wrote, had much more to it. I didn't know where to find that “much-more-to-it” back then. I graduated that year, still searching. I would go on to stop writing (outside of letters and journaling), and it would take decades to find my way back to it all.
Before I turned that memoir in, I worked really hard to make a cover for it with the things I had. I wanted it to visually express what was inside and to capture a feeling that words alone couldn’t.
When the team at Tyndale (thank you Jillian, Dean and team) and I landed on the cover design for Tell Me The Dream Again, I kept thinking about that younger me, trying to capture a shorter story in a cover image.
To think that all of this was somehow still-in-motion in the years when that little memoir was tucked away in a box, and that I would come back to it, and it would become the book it is, cover included, is almost too much. I’m full with gratitude and just plain happy over it all.
I’m so grateful for each of you. Thank you for being part of this little Shalomsick community and for sharing in my joy. I can’t wait to share the whole book with you.
Grateful and Shalomsick,
So beautiful. I cannot wait!!
Tasha, it is gorgeous. Can’t wait to read your beautiful words. 🙏🏼