A new book is coming quite soon.
I hope it will be a big boon
To your reading time.
It does have some rhyme
So prepare for your upcoming swoon!

The book is my maiden novella.*
Though it isn’t a jolly good fella
I hope it is good.
I wrote best I could
While guzzling down tea with vanilla.

The story recounts a world trip
That wasn’t a hop, jump, and skip.
My topmost priority
Was finding Superiority
Where the vice has its vile viselike grip.

My findings may shock you, dear reader.
I wish that the world had been meeker
But alas I did see
In country upon country
That pride rises up as the leader.

While wandering from clime to clime
As Odysseus did once upon a time
I also met folks,
Some gals and some blokes,
Whom I cannot describe all in rhyme.**

The dedication’s first line bears the name
Of the one who was twice my ex-flame,
A lover of levity
And fanboy of brevity—
My loquacity bears some of the blame.

So at least let it make me some moolah
With this, my forthcoming novella.
When it’s widely read
I’ll get me some bread
And spread it with golden Nutella.

*The manuscript was a novella when I composed this announcement. It’s a novel now but to quote David Copperfield, let it stand.

**Hence the prose.

(c) 2024 by Sharon Arpana Edwards. All rights reserved.