The eagle has (almost) landed!
My new book is here! At least at my place – and with those who pre-ordered it. It’s not available in stores just yet (a case of slow logistics), which raises the question: when do you actually celebrate a book release?
When you get your first copy? When it starts selling? Or when people begin reading it?
One early reader wrote in social media: “I started reading it aloud to my husband. It is as catchy as fiction!” That made my day. The book is in Swedish only at the moment – sorry about that – and covers 400,000 years of history in southern France. Not just the events, but the places where you can still feel the echoes of them today. It’s packed with facts and 367 images, but written to be read like a novel.
I started working on it back in 2011. Then paused. Resumed. Rewrote. Set it aside beasue of other books, projects, paid work. Came back again. Did a ton of research. So finishing it now feels… big. And freeing. No more massive half-finished projects quietly weighing me down. (Just smaller ones.) This makes me open to new opportunities– well, I will be soon.
In my April recap, I wrote about the upsides and downsides of a portfolio career. I still feel regular employment has a certain appeal – stable income, pensions, colleagues. But since I am at the moment juggling writer–publisher & project manager–consultant, I’ll make the most of it.
While my book was in print I hade the opportunity to move the office to a friend’s house in Corsica, mixing Teams meetings with exploring. And then I continued on to Antibes. Lots of walking and adding photos to my image bank. (Not just for fun. Expect further announcements.)
Among this months pictures I’ve included one selfie from the south of Corsica. In another I am walking along Gorges du Loup north of Nice. I’ve also included a skill card I’ve developed within the ChemSkills project, one of my assignments for IKEM. It outlines a proposed future role in the pharmaceutical industry: Sustainable Production Development Officer. The next step is to develop this, and several other roles, further together with stakeholders. I look forward to doing it – but my instructions were to wait.
I usually prefer action, but there are worse places to wait than southern France. I feel that I used the time well.
So how to summarise May? ChatGPT suggest this:
Finish big projects.
Appreciate the flexibility.
Keep moving. Keep exploring.
For June, I hope the book makes its way into the hands of curious readers.
The montly recap above has also been published on LinkedIn.
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