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In just over six months my book Listen to the Wool \u2013 a Why-to Guide for Joyful Spinning<\/em> will be published. It feels unreal, terrifying and wonderful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are a patron (or want to become one<\/a>) you can watch a my April 2025 video postcard.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in January I got my manuscript back from my acquisitions editor and worked with the changes she suggested for a couple of weeks. After I had returned the slimmed manuscript I got an email from my production editor, who gave me a timeline: The copyedited manuscript would come to me in early April and the proof would come in late May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A solo writing retreat<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

So, the second week of April I took the train to a cozy B&B in Varberg on the Swedish west coast for a solo writing retreat to focus on editing. The house was built in 1913 and seems to have kept the original decoration and furnishing. A fascinating place with paintings, furniture and books everywhere. Quite a few of the paintings were of women reading or writing, and in my room one with a woman sewing. I felt very welcomed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the painting in my room at the B&B was of a woman sewing. I can’t make out the signature, though.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I made a strict day-to-day schedule for myself \u2013 up at 5.30, practice yoga, edit, have breakfast, go for a bath in the ocean, edit, have a lunch break, and then edit until 3 pm, with some pauses to move between the editing sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going on a writing retreat like this does so much for the creative flow. There was nothing to bother me, nobody that needed my attention and I could focus all my energy on the book. This was my third writing retreat for this book (and all in all), and it helped me get so much done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read about my previous writing retreats in Falun in April 2024<\/a> and in Stockholm in September 2024<\/a>. Last week I wrote an essay on Substack<\/a> about this writing retreat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Playtime<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

From 3 until dinner I had playtime and usually explored the town or the coast. Of course I went to the fortress, the big landmark of the town, but I also took my rental bike down the coast. Having access to the bike was such a joy. I especially loved going down the coast on the wide and luxurious pedestrian and bike path with not a car in sight. Only the coastal landscape and the big blue sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A fortress window sill, seaweed and chocolate cake on the bike, who could ask for more?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There is something about the ocean that touches me deep in my bones. Looking at the horizon with nothing man-made to distract the view, apart from a lighthouse or two. That is what I long for in a place like this, the vastness, the silence and the grandeur of nature. And on some occasions, chocolate cake. All nourishing for the writing soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The sea and the sea. There are calm days and days with roaring waves casting seaweed onto the dock.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I had some lovely baths too. A couple of days in a calm sea, and on the last morning a very spirited one. I had to hold tight to the ladder rails not to be thrown into the waves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A design sample<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I also got a design sample of the book from my acquisitions editor, and it is oh, so beautiful! The colours, the fonts and the way the design of the book takes the reader by the hand through the sections really show that the designer had read the manuscript and understood in what spirit I wrote the book. They had also made my husband Dan’s photos even more beautiful than they already were. I can’t wait for you to read it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book will go to the printer’s in early August and hopefully be published in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy spinning!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find me in several social media:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n