A Letter from Robert
(and sometimes, Laurie)
September was a month of arrivals. A book I started more than a year ago is finally out. A Christmas story came back in a new edition, with new pictures. The Magic, the novel I wrote for Laurie's retirement, now comes in hardcover. And a love story told in thirty cups of coffee keeps finding readers.
Here is what's new, what it costs, and where to find it. Some of it is free.
— Robert
(with Laurie, always)
The Book of the Fall
A Treasure Map to Heaven
This one is out now, in ebook, paperback and hardcover. I wrote it for people whose faith has gone routine, and for anyone in a hard season who wants evidence, not a pep talk.
Available Now
A Treasure Map to Heaven
Seven Treasures. Ninety-One Clues. One Map.
It's a hands-on field guide for noticing heaven in ordinary days. There are seven hunts of thirteen clues each, a place to mark every one you find, and a true story at the heart of each hunt: Beethoven turning to see applause he couldn't hear, the Chilean miners' Camp Hope, a violinist playing unnoticed in a subway station.
The seven treasures:
Joy
Hope
Truth
Love
Beauty
Peace
Grace
$9.99 as an ebook, $14.99 in paperback, $24.99 in hardcover.
For the Season
A Christmas Shelf of Three
Three Christmas books now sit together on one shelf on the site. Each one is a different door into the same season, and all three are about what family gives us to carry.
I
Christmas Time: The Clockmaker's Gift
New Edition · Paperback $19.99 & Hardcover $29.99
II
Time Enough for Christmas
Ebook $9.99 · Paperback $12.99
III
The Grandmother Conspiracy
Ebook $9.99 · Paperback $12.99
Christmas Time is a read-aloud picture book for Christmas Eve: a clockmaker gives away the finest clock he has ever made so that Santa can reach every child, and learns what time is for. This new edition has new illustrations and a new cover, and it replaces the earlier one. Time Enough for Christmas follows a woman who inherits her grandmother's pocket watch and, one Christmas Eve, follows it to the father she thought had left her. The Grandmother Conspiracy is about the first Christmas after a grandmother dies, and the plan she left behind.
Time is for giving
"Time is not for keeping. Time is for giving. And the hours we give to LOVE are the only ones that truly last." All three are on the Christmas shelf: glimpsepublishing.com/Christmas
Now in Hardcover
The Magic
The Magic came out on August 1. As of September 19 it also comes in hardcover, for $22.99. It follows a newly retired woman who goes looking for a legendary Disney pin and finds that the real magic was the people who quietly passed kindness along the whole time.
"There's no joy in forever. Forever's a rock. The joy's in the thing that's only here a little while and knows it."
A Free First Chapter
How Do You Take It?
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For twenty-two years he has fixed his wife's coffee every morning. Then one October Saturday, she doesn't pick up the cup.
It's a love story told in thirty cups of coffee, about the difference between serving someone and seeing them. As of September 15 it was ranked #17 in Multigenerational Fiction on Kindle. Chapter one is free to listen to, 7 minutes 53 seconds, with nothing to sign up for. The whole book is $9.99 as an ebook and $14.99 in paperback.
If you listen, tell me what you think. A sentence is plenty. Hear the first cup
Free This Month
Quiet Miracles
October's free audiobook
Each month one Glimpse audiobook is free for members of the Glimpse Circle, and stepping inside is free too. October's is Quiet Miracles, newly updated: in a small-town barbershop, a quiet barber and an old leather chair help a grieving man who has let himself disappear remember that he still matters. It's Book 1 of The Chair Trilogy. glimpsepublishing.com/book-of-the-month
Free, Always
Glimpse Reflection
What we used to call Heartsongs is now Glimpse Reflection. You tell it how you feel, and you receive a written reflection addressed to you by name, with a keepsake card and music. It's free, always, and no email is needed to receive it. Ask for a reflection
The Glimpse Library
Books Where They're Needed Most
Agents take a Glimpse book and leave it where someone might need it: a waiting room, an assisted-living home, a neighborhood free library. Inside the cover is a plate that says the book is a gift to keep. For every book placed, a second one goes free to someone the Agent names.
35+
Free books out in the world (September)
3
Agents in the field
Small numbers, honestly counted. I'll share a fresh count in the next letter. If you know a waiting room or a library that could use a shelf of books like these, write to me at info@glimpsepublishing.com.
In the Works
On the Desk
Talking to the Wind
A memoir: thirty years as a father to my son, and what those years taught me to see.
Finished · Being Prepared
The Completed
A thriller. Elliot Marsh writes obituaries in Rochester, and he has begun to see something in the living that he shouldn't be able to see.
Rewritten from Page One
GLIMPSE
The novel the Glimpse Tool grew out of.
Still Coming
A Woman and a Man Walk Into a Bar
Kate and Ben, married twenty-eight years, sit down in the same bar on the same evening, and you read it twice: once through her eyes, once through his.
Further Out
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One Quiet Invitation
Step inside the Glimpse Circle. It's free, and each month one audiobook is yours, no strings.
Step inside the CircleOr send a free book to someone you're thinking of. It costs you nothing and them nothing.
