Working full time and sometimes after hours leaves little time and energy for me to do my own work, writing work. Since I decided to do all the book work on my own, publishing, formatting, editing, cover art, advertising, I'm finding myself feeling very lax about actually doing the work. Of course, it's always been a problem of mine, laziness that is, and procrastination. One would think that since this is something I truly want to do for myself, I'd be a little more involved and obsessed with it.
In any case... my mother has been running all over town doing her own version of PR for me. She stopped in a local bookstore and asked if they'd carry my books, and asked about a book signing. I then took her lead and followed up with them. I've got a meeting with one of the owners next Tuesday to discuss putting my books in their store, and possibly setting up a book signing. Granted, a signing should have taken place immediately when the book came out, but initially it wasn't my intention to try and put it in bookstores. Plus, well... it's only been six months, it's still relatively new right?
I have no illusions that I'll ever be somebody, that I'll be able to make a living off of writing (one can hope though,) but at least I'd like to entertain people, and I think I've done just that with the few people who actually took the time to read my book, and for them, I am extremely grateful.
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