Painting the Past is a #1 New Release on Amazon

Oh my! Just a few hours after its release yesterday, Painting the Past was tagged by Amazon as a #1 New Release in both the Authorship and the Authorship Reference categories. I was so excited I couldn’t stop taking pictures.

Here’s Painting the Past between David Sedaris’ new book (and I love David Sedaris) and On Writing Well, one of the most famous writing manuals of all time.

And here’s my book near Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones (and I love Natalie Goldberg and Writing Down the Bones).

Okay, I know. Enough with the fangirling and the pictures. But it’s been very exciting for me since Painting the Past is my first nonfiction book.

A New Workbook For Painting the Past

My point for this post, and I do have one, is that I realized yesterday of all days that Painting the Past would work well with a companion workbook. I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me before, but I’m a little slow sometimes. I created a workbook to go along with Painting the Past that allows readers to journal out their responses to the Quick Writes and questionnaires that appear in the book.

I know that many of you have already bought the book, so I’m making the free companion workbook available courtesy of Payhip. I had a lot of fun putting the workbook together, and I hope those of you who have read Painting the Past find the workbook to be a fun, interactive way to think through the questions in the book.

I know I said thank you to my readers yesterday, but after the launch Painting the Past has had I feel like I owe you a double-triple thank you with ice cream on top. Those of you who are reading it, I hope you are enjoying it.