It’s now a couple of months since I launched this site about my father and the memoir I have written about him – so why is the book not available yet?
One word: permissions.
My book contains a number of quotes and other pieces of intellectual property that belong to others – and if I want to use them then I have to first seek permission.
The profound quote at the top of this post also features in my book – as an epigram to chapter 6 – but as it’s by Shakespeare and over 400 years old there is no permission necessary.
More recent quotes and other items of IP do require permission, though, and the time required to secure it is largely beyond my control. Hopefully it won’t be long, though.
In the meantime, I am using the extra time to polish the book a little more, as well as considering how I go about getting it published. Currently I’m looking into the merits of starting a Kickstarter, after my friend and fellow writer Helaina Allyza Makkink mentioned that she is doing that for her fantasy novel ALEIDA.
Alternatively, but along the same lines, I could start an Unbound campaign.
Decisions, decisions.
Returning to the quotes that I’ve used in the memoir – wherever possible they are pieces of wisdom that dad was fond of and that held particular meaning for him – such as the Shakespeare quote above (which was one of his favourites).
Sometimes, though, it wasn’t possible to think of a fitting epigram for a particular chapter (and I did want every chapter to start with a wise quote) so in those cases I looked for words that I feel dad would also have found interesting.
One of my favourite discoveries was the following quote by the Greek philosopher Plutarch which I would like to leave with you as food for thought.
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