"Waiting for Columbus" is RELEASED!!!!!
August 31, 2009
Elated and emotional and humbled. Long process to get to “here.” Waiting for Columbus is released!!! It’s out in the world. The overriding feeling I have today is gratitude and quiet gratefulness. I feel blessed to have arrived here with such a fine book. And now I look to the future.
Love the Books on the Nightstand folks for their kind words about Columbus. Listen to the podcast here: Books on the Nightstand Podcast
A really nice review in the US publication, BookPage is here.
Edmonton Journal…..my god. My wife screaming into the bedroom with the Journal story and I didn’t have to put my glasses on to see the picture!! Great story! Here and here.
The Globe & Mail…wonderful review on the weekend… here
The MACLEANS.ca review is here.
Should get the okay soon to post a tour schedule here….Starts September 15 in Toronto….
9 Comments
1. Patrick had this to say: Aug 25, 2009 ~ 10:49 ~ #
Once again Thomas, this is so incredibly exciting. I’ll be heading out to get copies for Nicole and I at noon.
3. LCF had this to say: Aug 25, 2009 ~ 18:56 ~ #
Dear Tomas:
This humility and gratitude as companions to your now-agile quill are two excellent qualities to go to the celebratory dinner. An R y J with real matches? May you be surrounded by love and have time and ease to acknowledge the deep blessing of your worthy work in Columbus: may it find its best readers and encourage all those, with you, healthy enough to question sanity in an insane world…you remind us to love past hope and loss.
I will kick the Shibumi Volvo twice for you, move a Zen rock a few millimeters toward the sun in your honor, and laugh at your success with open-throated empathic joy. Hugs to you and CL and Mack. LCF
4. Mike Gravel had this to say: Aug 26, 2009 ~ 08:24 ~ #
Purchased from Chapters on 170st yesterday. They had only a few copies. It’s a beautiful book. Caslon. Superb.
5. Jamie Lewis had this to say: Aug 26, 2009 ~ 12:52 ~ #
Hey Mr. T!
You probably can’t recall me, but I was one of your students at YouthWrite the last year that you taught. I saw you on the news just now, and I just wanted to congratulate you on an interview well done.
I’ve been excited for this book since you gave us a sneak peek at camp, that summer. I look forward to reading it, soon!
Good luck! How exciting that it’s going worldwide!
Thank you for teaching me so much. I still remember everything you shared like it was yesterday. :)
-Jamie
6. Mike Gravel had this to say: Aug 26, 2009 ~ 16:25 ~ #
Great interview! Just watched it on CTV’s website. I don’t know if you can link to it directly or not, but it’s on there as of 4:30pm Wednesday.
7. Mary and Katherine had this to say: Aug 27, 2009 ~ 07:29 ~ #
Thomas,
We just watched your interview from sunny Ottawa. We loved it. However, we wish that the next time someone asks whether or not you did a lot of research on Columbus we would like you to tell them “no, I just learnt it all from comics and cartoons that I saw when I was a kid.”
YAY!
8. Tanya had this to say: Aug 30, 2009 ~ 09:39 ~ #
I couldn’t get the interview down in the US, but I saw the reviews and Tweeted them to my friends and followers. I sooo believe in this book! But I’m caught in this paradox wherein I want everyone to read and love this book and hating the idea that people I don’t like will be reading and loving this book!
9. Adam Snider had this to say: Aug 30, 2009 ~ 18:03 ~ #
Congrats again, Thomas, on the book and on all of the awesome media coverage you’ve been getting.
(As a side note, I particularly enjoyed the multiple references to “poetry raves” in the Journal piece on Saturday.)