Hello, old friends! It’s been over a year since my last blog post. Please forgive my neglect, but I’ve been hard at work on my doctoral program while trying to keep up with the demands of my teaching job–and working on a new book project!
In case you haven’t heard on social media yet (I talk about everything on Instagram, you know), I recently signed a book contract with Ave Maria Press! I started work on the idea for this book nearly two years ago during spring break 2018. I had the idea then for a book about what teachers could learn by studying how Jesus taught. I worked on the original outline for that book while on a silent retreat during spring break. When I returned home, teaching and my doctoral program got all my attention again, and the book idea was set aside until the summer.
Over the next year and half, I hacked away at revising my original idea in between semesters and summer school sessions, and with help from editor Jaymie Stuart Wolfe from Ave Maria Press. And now I can announce that I have signed an official book contract with them, and the book should be out during the first half of 2021.
While I have a good headstart on writing the book due to the detailed outline, I won’t really be able to finish the manuscript until this summer since I still have that pesky dissertation to finish first.
Ignore all his Christmas decoration boxes in the background.
We’re just keeping it real, y’all!
In the meantime, I can tell you that the book will focus on combating teacher burnout through Scripture reflections (something I could use right now in the midst of the dreary month of February), and I’ll be dedicating my book to my dad since he has always supported my teaching career.
Stay tuned for more news! (And keep the prayers coming for my dissertation. This has been the longest haul of my life, and I’m actually finishing a lot faster than many other full-time teachers do.)
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