An Update On Publishing My Memoir - Closer - But An Ironic Twist - Book Contract

                            PERSISTENCE WINS THE DAY

This is an update in my ongoing attempt to secure a contract to publish my memoir called: A Head of Changes: My Odyssey Treating Heroin Addicts in the Sixties.

I have managed to find an editor at a publishing house who has read the first three chapters and likes the concept. So I am encourage that maybe - just maybe - my book will fly. However I have learned, if nothing else, to stay grounded and expect nothing. It is out of my hands. Except for the ironic twist that follows.

Along with my memoir I have sent out a proposal for a book on the nature and use of coincidences (synchronicities) - the results of a 40 year investigation of these remarkable events.

In this connection I report the following - which captures the essence of the power of just a few words muchly hoped for. I am preoccupied by the following quotation I received yesterday:

"Thank you very much for your patience while your book proposal for Demystifying Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities): The Evolving Self, The Personal Unconscious, and The Creative Process was under review. We feel the book would make a significant contribution, and we have agreed to offer you a contract to publish the book."

Now I have a ton of scutt work to close the deal: i.e.foot notes, bibliography, index, camera ready copies. However no complaints as this kind of preoccupation is fun.

I also called the editor who is reading the memoir to tell him the news of my good fortune in the hope that my contract will enhance my credibility. Wow- would that be a noteworthy experience to have two books published simultaneousy?