Day 2-
So, here I am on the 2nd day of this brief journey of insight into the life of an author, in between published books.
Today has been a better day for me. After receiving encouragement and reassurance from my good friend and guru, Michael (wide smile), he asked me what was important to me? I answered “my books.” And there was my answer. Nothing else matters. Now I say this and, of course, other things matter like my family and my friends but truly all the nonsense at work I’ve been wrestling with, that has caused me countless sleepless nights and worry and angst over how to deal with people who have no insight into their own bad behavior- well- that doesn’t matter at all because that’s not my overall goal. My goal is to be a successful, respected Author and that’s what I’m striving for every day. As long as I keep centered and focused on what’s truly important to me and I keep striving every day to achieve it, everything else, namely all the pettiness, can fall to the wayside because it has nothing to do with my goals and what I want to achieve in life.
It also didn’t hurt to see how many books I’ve sold with Amazon so far this year. When I saw how many I sold for my most popular book, I almost fell over in my chair. Wow! There’s a stark difference from what you sell monthly to how much you’ve sold over several months. My monthly sales may seem minuscule but the overall effect of seeing the greater number is a real eye opener and it was good to note that my promotions are actually helping my sales. I am always happy when someone new has discovered my books and gives one a try. If they don’t like it, that’s okay- everyone has different tastes but there have been several that have taken a chance and read one of my books and now want to read all of them and that is amazing!
So, after being re-centered, I made a new friend. A lovely woman who decided to join my Street Team and- guess what- she wants to promote me, too. She read my first book, Nightfall and loved it and she decided everyone needs to read my books (how amazing and wonderful is that). For an Author, hearing that a reader enjoys your book(s) is like celebrating a birthday- it is the best feeling in the world to hear someone loves what you painstakingly took years to write, edit and get published. It truly only takes one enthusiastic reader/fan to make an Author’s day. The fact that she loved my book, Nightfall, so much as to want to promote me is such a blessing to me!
So today, I decided to take the day to step away from the drama at my day job and get some work done without interruption. This really helped to put me in a better frame of mind, too. The only thing better would’ve been to listen to music while I worked and I may just do that tomorrow.
And this is Day 2.
TK Lawyer 