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Welcome to the Fresh-Squeezed Life Cafe is now available on Amazon, at less than the retail price. Check it out!

PUBLICATION UPDATE:

Today I will contact my publishing consultant and give the go-ahead for Welcome to the Fresh-Squeezed Life Cafe! to go into print and become available for purchase. The review copy looks good (except for a few typos that no one caught), so we are in business!

Fresh-Squeezed Life is just around the corner

Actually, fresh-squeezed life is right here, right now, whenever you take the time to drink it in. But Welcome to the Fresh-Squeezed Life Cafe! has been typeset and is back from the printer. I am waiting for my comp copy for review, so I can give the go-ahead for more copies to be printed.

Have you had your fresh-squeezed life yet today?

The Book Goes to the Printer!

Today a few last-minute revisions were handled over the phone, and I faxed the galley and cover approvals to the publisher. The book should go to the printer by the end of this week, and within 2-3 weeks Welcome to the Fresh-Squeezed Life Cafe will be available.

Somehow I managed to do my part to make this happen, despite my design consultant leaving my publisher as of today, my car battery going dead, prevailing on two different neighbors to buy and use jumper cables to get me started, the office store Staples for the second time in a row being unable to successfully fax my forms to the publisher, my neighbor letting me use her home office fax machine to get the forms in today, driving around and leaving my car running while I ran into various auto parts stores to see if they would replace my battery, and a family member having emergency surgery. All this happened today: We just never know what kind of a day we're going to have, do we? (Surgery went well.)

Life has probably squeezed you, today, too, in small ways--and for some of you, in big ways. Maybe nothing was tied up and brought to a nice close, and your mind is not at ease. Maybe you're unhappy with the way you handled things. Take a deep breath. And another. Close your eyes and imagine God's hand reaching down to you, to pick you up, to stroke your hair, whatever you need. You are imagining the real, not the imaginary; He really loves you. He wants to give you beauty where you've had only ashes. There is good stuff ahead. Wait for it!

This just in! REVISED PROOFS RECEIVED FROM PUBLISHER!

The revised proofs of Welcome to the Fresh-Squeezed Life Cafe are now in my possession. Hopefully, no further revisions will be necessary, and I can officially approve them--which means that the book could be in my hands within the month! And it needs to be, as I am scheduled to be available to sign copies at the Women's Retreat in Laguna mid-September. Yay!!!!

About the Book

The publisher, Thomas Nelson, WestBow Press division, now has the first round of corrections on the manuscript of Welcome to the Fresh-Squeezed Life Cafe! by Brynn Ashford. The book could be in print in about a month. Stay tuned for further developments!