A novel that sells as few as 800 copies in Canada is considered successful. So you can imagine how pleased I was to hear that my publisher, Pottersfield Press, has sold out of its first printing of 1500 copies of The Social Worker: A Novel. I continue to tour across North America and internationally and am finding response to the novel wonderful. Professors of Social Work are using it in courses on ethics; front line workers are writing me to tell me how pleased they are to finally read a novel that takes readers inside the work they do, with all the gritty realities one finds there. Now if only I could find an American publisher to pick it up…that’s my summer’s task.
In the mean time, I’m pleased to see my work, and that of my many colleagues, being featured prominently in a number of places. An article in Dalhousie Magazine did a wonderful job of talking about the scope of the work done at the Resilience Research Centre, which I lead as Principal Investigator and Co-Director, along with my colleague Linda Liebenberg. To read more, please go to:http://www.dal.ca/news/2011/06/27/resiliency-is-the-heart-of-the-matter.html?utm_source=my.dal&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=dalnews)-
I am also anticipating the publication of another edited volume titled The Social Ecology of Resilience which will be released by Springer in New York in October. It’s a collection of writing by many of my colleagues internationally, including Michael Rutter, Alan Sroufe, Ingrid Schoon, and dozens of others. It also, I’m proud to say, includes five interviews with amazing people who have lived resilient lives and have a profound depth of awareness to tell us who and what made the difference to their success.
Meanwhile, summer has finally joined us here in Halifax. My tennis game still leaves much to be desired, but at least there are long evenings to bike and lots of shoreline to explore around Nova Scotia. It’s a magical place to live, the kind of place that I love to come home to.
