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Aug 23
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Important Library Journal Loves Into The Planet Book Released This Week

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FROM LIBRARY JOURNAL Heinerth, Jill. Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver. Ecco: HarperCollins. Aug. 2019. 288p. notes. ISBN 9780062691545. $29.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062691569. MEMOIR Heinerth (The Basics of Rebreather Diving) takes readers on an engrossing journey through her life as a cave diver. She began after a traumatic event in young adulthood that challenged her to manage and overcome fear, a catalyst that inspired her to pursue a career thriving in the shadow of danger. Deftly describing the thrills of exploring some of the world’s deepest and longest water systems, Heinerth doesn’t shy away from the concomitant perils,…

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Mar 21
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My Most Important Reviewer

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Many people imagine that my husband Robert McClellan must have read every word of my book Into The Planet. The truth is that it was only a few weeks ago that he finally read the book. Writing and editing a manuscript take years. While I worked with editors Bhavna Chauhan at Doubleday Books and Denise Oswald at ECCO, I often felt like I was getting psychotherapy, rather than editing. I had imagined that the process would be akin to a teacher grading a term paper, counseling me on grammar and tense. But it was so much more. Detailed notes asked…

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Mar 18
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The Story Behind the Cover of Into The Planet

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In 1997, my first husband Paul Heinerth and I discovered a remarkable deep cave attached to a little known sinkhole deep in the jungle of a region called the Ejido Jacinto Pat in Mexico. I shot the cover photo for Into The Planet at the spot where I later suffered from a severe case of decompression illness that nearly ended my career. A year earlier, our friends, Dan Lins and Kay Walten had completed a long dive, entering at a cenote—pool in the jungle—called Tikim Ich. After a swim of over one-mile in highly decorated, snug passages, the floor and…

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