Rose Press Books ~ and actual Roses (more alike than one might think)

To put books and roses in the same sentence, the same breath, is not so far-fetched when you look into it. They both involve flowering.

And what are the elements involved in flowering? There needs to be a seed (in this case, a cane). There needs to be a fertile soil in which the seed or cane is planted. There needs to be a willingness to tend to the seed over time ~ to water it, mulch it, weed it, prune it, and all the while, love it as it finds its way toward the fulfillment of its natural expression.

When the writer of a book seeks to write that book deeply, that desire ~ that longing ~ is the seed.

The fertile ground into which the seed, or rose cane, is planted is a willing heart: willing not only to venture into unknown territories through and during the writing process, but willing also to make friends with whatever arises ~ whether that be the material, or aspects of the self previously not conscious, or the realization that the draft of the book will need to be revised in light of later understandings.

The tending to the growing plant includes caring about it while it is still in its incomplete form ~ thinking about it in a warm, friendly way (rather than succumbing to the perhaps familiar litanies of self-criticism and self-condemnation); coming back to it and writing more, with enough frequency to keep it alive and vital in the writer’s heart; learning from it (like learning from one’s child); dreaming with it; staying with it, no matter what it asks ~ whether to be done, or to be ripped out at the seams and begun again from another point of entry, or whatever; and finally, releasing it into a book, as an act of love as much as accomplishment.

This releasing into a book, and then releasing the book into the world, is the cut-flowers bouquet that graces the tables and hearts of the readers.

And the distilling metaphor that I’m using throughout this blog?  That’s, in part, what happens when you read the book: you get the essence, for yourself, of all that the writer went through in writing the book. The writer got the full journey, and you get the gifts of that journey.

This is true for all Rose Press books to date. My own most recent book, out later this month, MotherWealth: The Feminine Path to Money bears this out. So does Rahima Warren’s recently released book, Dark Innocence (Book One of The Star-Seer’s Prophecy, a fantasy trilogy). So also do the Rose Press non-fiction books, like Healing Civilization, by Claudio Naranjo, MD. And my own Starting Your Book: A Guide to Navigating the Blank Page by Attending to What’s Inside You. If you go to the Rose Press website, you’ll get the fragrance for yourself. Rose Press Publishing