25 years ago I started writing a book, today it’s finally published

Deaf Politician — The Gary Malkowski Story

As I write this, it is the Summer of 2020. The world is in the middle of a horrible pandemic and I’ve lost my “day job.” Though my income is down, my free time is up.

Gotta stay productive, so I dusted off my manuscript titled Deaf Politician — The Gary Malkowski Story. I started writing it 25 years ago, and for the past several weeks I have been reviewing it, rewriting it, editing it, and updating it. And today I’m publishing it. It’s a book, at last. (Available on Amazon as a paperback or an ebook.)

When I began this project of writing Canadian politician Gary Malkowski’s biography, I had a contract with an American book publisher that specialized in creating and selling American Sign Language and the Deaf community materials. I had such high hopes of seeing my first book* in print within a year or two.

After countless hours of research and interviewing Gary and the major people in his political and personal life — including Bob Rae, the former premier of Ontario and now Canadian’s ambassador to the United Nations — and following Gary around on the 1995 “campaign trail,” and numerous rewrites, I delivered a manuscript to the publisher.