The Story behind the Book: Forget the Goal, the Journey Counts (Stites)

 



The following is the story behind Forget the Goal, the Journey Counts (Stites)


From the editor:

Alfred's book was one of the first we published, nearly 20 years ago, by an author we did not personally know. (Since then, we have met lots of new people and made lots of new friends.) At the time, and until recently, Alfred was living in Costa Rica. In fact, he had written a book earlier about Costa Rica.

We were used to working with foreign authors. In fact, we had already published books by authors from Syria and Jordan.

We found Alfred's story fascinating -- 71 different jobs, and most of them contributed to who he was as a person. Some of those jobs were downright unique, and he had met some well-known people and a lot of unknown unique words. A fun read!

Alfred lived into his 90s. Near the end of his life, he moved back to the USA to be with his children in New Mexico.

Alfred may not still be with us, but we still have his book. So, Alfred is still entertaining readers.


For more posts about Alfred and his book, click HERE.

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