...which is why I'm posting the table of contents for the bonus content in Full Harvest four weeks before it hits shops. No self control. None. It's a little embarrassing.
Mods, feel free to take this down if it smacks of consumerist commercialism, but the goliath's finally out to the printing plant and I could do HANDSPRINGS. (I mean, I can't, but I'd very much like to.) More than two hundred fifty pages of BONUS material aside from the book, thank G-d. TWO HUNDRED FIFTY PAGES!!! I think I've forgotten what normal food and sleep look like. (And if anyone tells me that a 971-page book is "too long", I think I shall bop them over the head with the book. And then have to resuscitate them forthwith. Where does one buy smelling salts nowadays?)
So, if anyone's interested...
Hidden:
The regular suspects, first - Making of Full Harvest, timeline, photos, you know. The regular. With extra cheese. And mushrooms.
A two-hundred page historical companion "book" to the novel, with annotated memoirs, documents, and juicy interview bits from descendants of actual Jewish settlers of the period (and AWESOME photos. One lady let me come to her house, take down the photos of her great-grandparents off her dining-room wall, and scan them right there on her dining-room table.)
A fiction section with the prologue vignette published in Binah a couple of months before Full Harvest began running; the original version of the Shortchanged/Full Harvest Binah tie-in - the expanded-ending version that is, plus photos; and a short-short Rosie-Yidel epilogue, Sweet New Year (which, actually, is slated to be printed within a longer story in the Succos Binah, may all go well... let's see if it makes the final cut there)...
...plus loads of little fun extras, like the turkeys (double cheese for those who can give a total count on all the turkeys involved in the making of this book, or appearing herein) and quirky in-story design fun. Funky reading all around.
Just wanted to share, and thank you guys for all the feedback and critique. (I actually cut and pasted certain posts into my "to re-do before book" file, and changed things accordingly.) I wasn't able to thank everyone by their imamother handles within the book itself, but you're all referenced in the Acknowledgements, albeit anonymously...!
Well. This felt wondrous.
Back to real life, then... laundry beckons!
I think they still sell smelling salts in the pharmacy. Come to think of it, I bought mine about 30 years ago, so they might have discontined that item.
I just wanted to let you know that I LOVED the story- and while never thought I would be interested in historical fiction kind of stuff - Iabsolutely could not wait to read the next chapter each week!
I dont usually talk about books with friends but even my colleagues at work would talk about they cant wait to hear what would happen next.
It was an amazing read and it was so obvious that it was written with much thought. looking forward to reading the expanded edition.
Hatzlacha and bracha!
[quote="whimsy"]I just wanted to let you know that I LOVED the story- and while never thought I would be interested in historical fiction kind of stuff - Iabsolutely could not wait to read the next chapter each week! ]
I read secular fiction but the only historical fiction I enjoy is well-written Jewish historical fiction, like Scotty's, or Meir Uri Gottesman. Totally different from the secular stuff.
Mazel Tov! I don't usually buy Judaica fiction, but my 11-year-old daughter (and myself) just loved Full-Harvest and can't wait for the book to come out. With all those extras, it's hard to resist!
You know, I get hooked on serials fairly easily, enjoy many of them, and really like quite a few. But it's not often that they can be called works of art. This one I think deserves that description. (Waiting for the Rabbi, too, I think.)
Congratulations! That's a huge achievement. I love your stories (though I've only ever read the shorts or snippets of serials because I don't subscribe) and am always awed at the amount of research you do.
Thank you, thank you responders... *grins* So glad to hear all this excitement! Hip, hip, hooray!
Rubber Ducky: mazel tov yourself on the Balabuste handbook in stores! Must check out. Now I know which gift (italics) I (/italics) want!!
[Oh, dear, everyone else's comments have disappeared. Computer non-cooperative at the moment. Must catch up at later date, then.]
And I Love Life: I stand corrected. R"H issue, got it. Not sukkos issue. Inner Chronometer is offline here from lack of sleep. I humbly plead thine forgiveness upon bended knee.
And [Insert Happy-and-Dramatic Music Cue #1 here] - anyone who has been planning to invite the book into your book collection family, get it free with your Binah subscription sign up today, Wednesday, by calling them between 12 noon and 12 midnight. Hooray! [Cue Closing Happy-and-Dramatic Cymbal Flourish, with Car-Salesman-Theatrical-Announcer-Voice and Firework Sound Effects]. Plug, plug...
(Sheesh. 12 o'clock. This confirms my long-held suspicion that Binah workers are not really people but hallucinations of a shared hive mind, or, alternately, cyborgs that need no sleep. Or maybe their sinks just run black coffee instead of water?)
I am so excited!
My family and I are big fans of Little House on the Prairie, so we really enjoyed the story and are looking forward to all the extras!
Something you haven't cooked up yet is in Sukkos LOL
