While looking around this morning for something completely unrelated, I found that the book I wrote is now available. It's an e-book written for the company that does these blogs, and it's for sale now in the Adoption Shop.

It's called, "The Adoption.com Guide to US Infant Adoption", and writing it was a difficult job for me. For starters, I much prefer writing fiction. When I move into the little world in my head where stories happen, I can get lost for hours at a time, and emerge feeling as if I've climbed the mountain or conquered the foe, or whatever. Non-fiction is nowhere near the same process, and although both are grueling, fiction offers more of a release.

Writing to provide information must first be approached from the apex of a learning curve that is reached by careful plodding and often tedious slogging through marshes of facts and figures that remind a person where the term "bogged down" comes from. I knew little about US infant adoption when I began. Then there was the fact that much of the information ... or the presentation of the information ... I came across in my research was, frankly, a bit distasteful.

Thanks in great part to the education I've been getting since I began
working here, I am well aware of how eggshell-strewn the tentative paths between birth parents / adoptive parents / adoptees can be, and much of the material on the market about domestic infant adoption made little effort not to crash and crunch and stomp.

There was no need for me to reinvent the wheel, but if I was going to write a book I would be happy with about adopting babies in America, I was going to have to find a tone for the work that would resonate in a way that would feel right to me ... one that would address difficult issues with the care they require and show every aspect of adoption the deserved respect.

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