{"id":20508,"date":"2015-01-08T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T08:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=20508"},"modified":"2015-01-08T00:01:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T08:01:42","slug":"its-here-a-copy-of-wrestling-with-god-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/its-here-a-copy-of-wrestling-with-god-has-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Here! A Copy of “Wrestling with God” Has Arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The very cool\u00a0Wrestling with God<\/em> cover design is by graphic artist Michelle Lenger of Michigan. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

It arrived on Monday. There it was right outside the front door. A small brown package from my publisher. And inside — a copy of my book, Wrestling with God: Stories of Doubt and Faith.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The package was waiting outside our front door. And if I weren’t so darned busy getting ready for the book’s release in a few weeks, I’d have swept up those camellia leaves and blossoms before I took this picture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was a proof copy, not quite ready for publication. But it was beautiful: Michelle Lenger’s striking\u00a0cover design printed on lush matte paper. Inside, a pretty typeface on\u00a0lovely, smooth\u00a0paper. And on the back, words of praise from religion writer colleagues Jana Riess and Kay Campbell.<\/p>\n

For two days the yogis and the Zumba ladies up at the gym\u00a0were invited to hold the book, stroke the silky\u00a0cover, flip through the\u00a0pages, and wonder at the fact that\u00a0Wrestling with God<\/em>\u00a0had finally made it into print.<\/p>\n

You’ll be able to order your own copy (and I’m hoping you will) in a few weeks. It will be available on-line as an ebook and a paperback. You’ll also be able to order it through your favorite bookstore.<\/p>\n

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It arrived on Monday. There it was right outside the front door. A small brown package. And inside — a copy of my book, “Wrestling with God: Stories of Doubt and Faith.”\u00a0Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[83,1379,34,1112,1380,1381,488,197,53,69],"class_list":["post-20508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-rocky-spiritual-journey","tag-book","tag-book-cover","tag-dont-miss","tag-jana-riess","tag-kay-campbell","tag-michelle-lenger","tag-the-writing-life","tag-the-writing-room-2","tag-wrestling-with-god","tag-writing-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}