Question ref. Book foreword

Usually, when someone agrees to write a foreward, they WRITE it. They don't use what you wrote.

Perhaps he means he'd like to you draft an overview of what the foreward might say . . . he also may just not really be on board with the project.

Well, my only suggestion would be to write as thin an outline as you can so the resulting foreward (which the fellow can hopefully write on his own) does not sound like you wrote it along with the rest of the book.

My brother will not even show me the foreward for my book for that reason. When I wrote Look Me In The Eye, my brother never did more than read 1-2 page snippets.

He did provide advice, but it was all general in nature:

"Show them! Don't tell them!"

"Think of scenes and make them real!"

Good luck with it, and thanks for the note on my book. I'm afraid it may attract more noteriety than I hoped. The tone of the news announcements certainly sets a very high bar for my work, and it's a bit anxiety provoking.

The forewords to my last two books were not necessarily what I was expecting, but I used them (both being written by names of note in the field). For the current project, my foreword writer agreed with a similar condition - I write something for him and he'll modify it accordingly.

Well, I don't recognize the text as mine, but the topic and flow is exactly what I wanted in the foreword. So, apparently there is a lot to be said for writing it yourself!