Exciting news: Come the Morning will publish October 15!!!!

This closing-in on a book launch is one of the most fun as well as the most nail-biting times of any for me, but the urgency of it makes me want to close myself into a closet and suck my thumb and just escaping the world and melt writing something.

But this time also is an over-the-top time of excitement: the book is written, the cover’s done and some pre-pub interviews are coming in. (So far, knock wood, they have been wonderful.) Here’s the cover and a little write up:

In 1883, orphaned fifteen-year-old Ezekiel Harrington is sent from his home in remote Nebraska to Philadelphia to live with strangers, who steal what little money he has. He flees their treachery and sets out to make his way on his own. His life is never easy. Ambition drives him to disregard all else, even love. In time, he longs for the woman he can neither fathom nor master.

“Philadelphia’s art world at the turn of the century receives close inspection and serves as the historical backdrop for Come the Morning, a novel about a struggling gallery owner. Evocative, reflective, and historically revealing, Come the Morning does a fine job of dovetailing a sense of self with a sense of place and purpose, also revealing the plights of women, artists, entrepreneurs, and the circles that both support and defeat them. A top recommendation”
–Midwest Book Review

“COME THE MORNING is a deeply satisfying novel of scope and depth. This is a beautiful book, a throwback to an earlier time in American literature. I loved it.”
–Tim Bazzett, author of Booklover

Tune in again for updates as things breathlessly move along.