An Update on the Book

Still Becoming

I’ve been asked quite a bit lately about the book.

Where it is.
When it’s coming.
How it’s going.

And the most honest answer I can give is this:

It’s still becoming.

When I first began writing, I thought I understood what I was creating. I thought it would be something I could sit down, reflect on, and complete from a place of looking back.

But what I didn’t anticipate is that the writing would unfold at the same time as my life.

The story isn’t something I’ve finished living.

It’s something I’m still in.

Because at the same time the book has been taking shape…

Art of The Crumb has grown in ways I never could have planned for.

What began quietly in my kitchen, as something deeply personal, has become something much bigger than I imagined. More people. More connection. More moments that stop me in my tracks and make me ask, what is happening here?

And as that has grown…

so has the story.

The book is no longer just about healing.

It’s about what happens after.

It’s about what happens when something that began as a way to hold yourself together…begins to move outward into the lives of others.

Through bread.
Through conversation.
Through presence.

I’ve been receiving messages from people who have been following along quietly.

People who have picked something back up after years of letting it go.

People who have started something new.

People who have taken a step they weren’t sure they were ready to take.

People who are, in their own way…

finding their sourdough.

And that phrase has taken on a deeper meaning for me.

Because it was never really about bread.

It was about returning.

It was about finding the thing that brings you back to yourself…
and choosing to stay with it.

So the process has taken longer than I thought it would.

Not because the words aren’t there…

but because they are still evolving.

Because I am still evolving.

And I want this book to reflect that honestly.

Not a finished version of something that is still unfolding…

but a true account of what it looks like to live through it.

The plan right now is to launch in late summer…

August or September of 2026.

I’ll share more as that time gets closer.

For now, I’m still here.

Still baking.
Still writing.
Still learning.
Still becoming.

And I’m grateful—deeply grateful—that so many of you are here with me in it.

Warmly,
Kathy
Art of The Crumb