WHAT I LOVE ABOUT YOU - New Book Release

I am happy to announce a new book I have co-written with my wife Kate. Have you ever filled out a Valentine’s Day, birthday, or anniversary greeting card and wished you had more room to convey all the things you appreciate about your partner? What I Love About You (Broadway Books, January 2007) lets you express the many ways you cherish your special someone. The prompts are fun, evocative, easy to answer, and encourage intimacy, such as:

• If we’d met in a comic strip, the thought bubble over my head would have read:
• We clicked because we were: a) bread and butter, b) two peas in a pod, or c) sweet and sour.
• I first knew I loved you when:
• I’m glad I listened to you, or wish I had, when you said:
• I get a kick out of watching you:

My wife filled this out for me and gave it to me on our anniversary. Reading her loving words really choked me up. In over twenty year of marriage, this was the best and more personal present I have received from Kate. I will treasure it always. As I then filled one out for her birthday, I felt so close to her, remembering all the reasons we first fell in love, and forgetting the petty scwabbles of the day. After she read it she hugged me so tight I could hardly breathe. Wow.

Have fun filling it out and giving it,

David Marshall

www.marshallbooks.net

The Book of Myself - 2007 Revised Edition

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: The ten-year anniversary revised edition was released by Hyperion Books/Disney on January 9, 2007.

Since 1997 the first edition has helped families capture life histories to pass on to future generations. Many families have written me to say how glad they are to have the stories down on paper, in personality-rich handwriting. Some have also shared what features made it especially easy to remember and write about their lives. I am pleased that Hyperion Publishing gave me the chance to draw on these comments to update the journal. In the new edition you’ll find:

• More space to write
• The green cover with burnt-orange trim replaces the original gray cover with red trim
• Elegant new interior design and “family tree” green color
• How-to ideas for genealogy enthusiasts
• Many of the same great questions about family friends, education, work and the world in the early, middle and later phases of life
• More questions about siblings, relatives, and special relationships
• Fun new questions

I'll publish more life phase questions from the book soon, and add my own answers. Please send your feedback to me on this blog or to my website below. Thank you.

Happy memoir making,

David Marshall
Marshall Books
Moraga, California
www.marshallbooks.net