Announcing a Beast

Writing | New Book

I finished a book. It’s the heaviest book I have ever written — the result of long research. For 5 years, I collected, compared, and retold folk tales from a few small islands in the Atlantic. The well-fed manuscript grew into a heavy 300-plus-page beast.

How do I announce a beast? Must I?

It growls for itself:

The beast looks and yawns, tucks its tail, and disappears back into the cave of editing.

Forgive my beast; it still waits to get its fur trimmed. Then we will fly to hunt some publishers.