Lessons learned from writing and editing my first novel To Sleep in the Ground motivated me to revisit my older stories. A Day of Horror: The March 11, 2011, Japan Earthquake is my only nonfiction book and the very first book that I self-published.
And was I ever green! The old cliché that ‘the more you write, the more you learn’ (or something like that) is true. I cleaned up the grammar and punctuation, and eliminated many redundancies in the story. The fourth and latest edition is by far the best version of the book. It’s a better reading experience overall.
The book contains personal e-mails that I wrote to family and friends in America, keeping them updated on the situation in Japan in the days, weeks and months following the initial quake. Photos of the damage to the city in Japan where I live are included, as are photos…
Momentary Lapse Of Sanity 