I received an email from my publishers yesterday. It said that my book, Lessons to Learn, would be put in the post first thing in the morning.
What a strange thought.
What it is to consider that Lessons to Learn which for so long was an idea, or a short story, a set of poems, a pile of papers with red pen collections, is now a novel, with a cover and a blurb and my name on the front. Has become a physical object, which can be put into a packing envelope and posted all the way from Auckland to London.
That said, the post from Auckland to London is notoriously slow, and there have been several instances over the past few months where packages from home haven’t arrived at all. So all I can do is keep my fingers crossed, and hope that sometime over the next couple of weeks, when I get home from work, a book that was once only an idea will be waiting.
