Covid Cancelled? No, Postponed, Rescheduled!

When I had to cancel the launch of my most recent book, I thought, Oh, no, how will I get any book sales? But never fear, thanks to the great team of writers from my writing group, I was able to set another date for the book launch and it happened!

The idea for this anthology came to my mind in April 2020, when the world first became aware of the Covid-19 virus, and worried, and worried about it. I was watcbing the news from around the world and was one of those worried people.

I had a big feeling within myself, that I must do something to somehow help. I have no medical skills, and I can’t organise anything big, I didn’t have the available funds, or listenership for that. But I am a poet and writer, and a committed community member, and have many friends who are the same.

So I reached out to my friends, both the ones I meet up with every week, and with my online friends, through my writer’s blog. I thought hard about what I wanted to do, which was to print a collection of creative writing responses to Covid-19.

I didn’t suggest a theme of the writing beyond that, but I indicated what format I was looking for. The book I imagined would have small pieces of writing, not great long screeds of it. So once I knew what I wanted, I told them that, on my writer’s blog, this one…