Hi Kate! Great background and fantastic abilities… looking forward to learning from you and others on the journey.

Oh, and I am also from Toronto. 🙂

Okay, I noted your comment on another intro, and this one just blew me out of the water.

As a part of making sense of some of my parenting journey, I’m a contributor to a couple of books that you may know, and a co-editor of one of them:

Uniquely Gifted: Identifying and Meeting the Needs of the Twice-Exceptional Student (contributor)

High IQ Kids: Collected Insights, Information, and Personal Stories from the Experts (contributor and co-editor)–HATE the title and the cover image! Most of these kids–twice-exceptional or high-IQ–do *not* look like the bright, eager little fellow in the photo they used, and do not necessarily seem especially bright, because they’re bored, sullen, acting out, otherwise looking not-so-promising. . . .

When you say, “My passion is leading people from dependence or co-dependence through independence to interdependence,” I say, AMEN, and WE NEED YOU!

The books are good resources, Kate. Neither publisher fully understood the value of the content.

High IQ Kids (I do *hate* that title) brings together the perspectives of parents, teachers, psychologists, and some of the young people themselves, looking at different aspects of what they’ve gone through. It was super-hard to find a publisher at all, first because it *was* about high-IQ kids (I mean, how many of them could there be? there’s no market) and second because it was an anthology.

As you know, these individuals are *not* “normal only ‘better’ “. They are wired completely differently. The smartest of them can look really dumb, oppositional, and so on {wry grin}. My daughter was declared “ineducable.”

My favorite essay in the whole book is called “Normal Kids Don’t Quack,” by Cathy Marciniak.

We got the rights back, but haven’t had time/money to re-issue the book in any format. It is still available on the used market–like at Bookfinder.com.

http://sengifted.org/archives/articles/book-review-high-iq-kids

Kate, you’ve nailed it with “energy or time.” One of the other editors has moved on, out of the loop. Another is swamped with pay-the-bills work. I’m juggling that, along with four other projects that could use crowd-funding, only two of which are my own.

I agree that it would be terrific to have the book readily available, but don’t have the bandwidth myself. The editor/swamped above would know whether there are any hitches with the rights to any of the contributions. I have the production files for the book from the publisher, and have the tools and skills to at least turn it into a PDF format–possibly also standard e-book formats, although I haven’t done much of that (by choice). Mostly there would be administrative issues–managing the crowd-funding, handling the distribution platforms, figuring out where any money generated over distribution costs would be allocated (editors, who did years of work unpaid? authors, who contributed for token payment? combination, and by what percentages, and who does the bookkeeping?).

As long as it’s available on the used market for close to the cover price (running about $25 for used copies, and it was $20 at issue), people can get their hands on it.

I’m already somewhat above my capacity in dealing with publishing logistics. And my notes may be colored right now by the fact that I need to be downstairs figuring out sales and use tax and estimated income tax payments, all of which are imminently due. I have a bookkeeper and an accountant, but unfortunately I still have to do a lot of the grunt work {wry grin}.

I thought you were likely to get it {grin}.

At least we both know this resource exists, and if there are people who want to manage the administrative pieces to make it available, the other bits can be put in place. It’s one of those “if/when the stars align” things. You might come across somebody; I might come across somebody. The more people who know the factors involved, the more possible it is that the stars will align.