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Release Day at The Verge!

Our book is out! Go buy it!!

Aug 31, 2021
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Release Day!

It’s finally here! After over 8 years of work, Convergence- Book One: Incarnation is now available on Amazon for purchase! 

It’s SO strange to think back to seven billion years ago (2013) when we first decided that we wanted to work on a project together. Not just remembering what it was like to start brainstorming ideas, but where we were both at in our lives. Since that time, we’ve dabbled in grad school, moved across the country, started and ended different phases in our careers, Beyonce performed at Coachella… just an endless list of monumental life moments. 

Through it all, this book has been a surprising constant for us, despite how busy we were or how hard it was to work on or how hard it could be to work with each other. But ultimately, over the last 8 years, it’s brought us closer together. Just to get a little sappy, the book is largely a story about building bonds and how those bonds can help you find a true home, and through writing it together, we feel like we’ve found a home in our bond as sisters. CUTE, RIGHT???

It’s been a long 8 years, with this last year being just as challenging trying to figure out how to publish it ourselves. So today, with all of that work coming to fruition, it’s an exciting relief to see it available for purchase (even if we have, shall we say, COMPLICATED feelings about Amazon) (shove it, Bezos!). 

Before we get too carried away here with nostalgia and/or our socialist leanings, we wanted to share some behind the scenes snippets into this whole process. We have a very… unique approach to communicating and brainstorming together. It’s truly an art form, as you’ll see below. 


Behind the (sister) scenes

Our first idea brainstorm session, off to a great start!

We owe a lot of the more deranged ideas in our book to coffee

Poem excerpt that helped inspire the name of our book! Thanks, TS!

Before we turned to poetry, this is what we called our book in all of our planning documents

An early map of Convergence (the squiggles are trees) (drawing is hard!), featuring one of Rebecca’s finest manicures

A ~moody~ photo Katherine took the moment after the first draft was completed. CAUTION: only zoom in if you want a blurry spoiler of the last page IF THAT EVEN IS THE LAST PAGE ANYMORE WHO KNOWS BUY THE BOOK!!!

And finally, when one sister emails another sister their completed draft, this is what one says

Special Thanks

We wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has supported us throughout this process. The love and enthusiasm we’ve received from you all has been so comforting and appreciated. We are so grateful to all of you for being part of this with us, friends, family, and anyone who discovered this accidentally on the internet and is now following along! 

All the kind words, time, effort, advice, feedback, consideration, solidarity, and excitement that we’ve gotten from you has gone a long way in bolstering us in this journey. 

If you’re wondering if there’s any other ways you can help, firstly, thank you for such a kind thought, and secondly, YES DEFINITELY! 

If you read our book and like it, be sure to tell your friends, family, or random strangers on the internet! And most importantly, we’d love for you to leave us a review on Amazon! 

Basically, any way you can help spread the word about our book would be greatly appreciated! The more people that know about it and read it, the closer we are to getting our very own Convergence theme park and giving you all (our OG supporters) free tickets for life! 


What’s Next!

Before we go, we wanted to fill you all in on what’s next! Well first, we’re going to celebrate the release of our book! 

After that, we’re back to the grind of figuring out how to market this thing and promote it! Early next year, we’re planning to expand our distribution to try to get it in some bookstores and libraries! Exciting stuff! 

As for the rest of the series, we’re currently working on outlining our second book! We’re hoping to start drafting that this year, and then we’ll start this whole crazy adventure again of getting it published and out into the world! 

Our series is currently planned as 5 books, so we’ve got a long way to go, but are so excited to get back into the world of Convergence and getting our ideas onto the page. Thank you for reading!

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