Project Two: Side Notes on the End Table is complete, but far from over.
This book, which I was forced to write in about one month (procrastination is delicious) has been printed, bound, given barcodes and an ISBN, stocked, and it looks like sold and reviewed. It's been listed online- although without an image- and intrinsically connected to my name all over the interwebs.
For all the weird phobia's and self conscious behaviours I have found myself experiencing, I stand today to say that I am truly proud to have completed this book. It has always been a dream of mine and to see it realized set the spark for works to come. It's a balancing act of humility and pride, of doing the work and then being willing and able to talk about it. Perhaps it's being trusting enough to assume that people care, that they want to hear it, and that they like it....perhaps it's loving it and letting it go. I haven't figured it all out yet, but I am proud to say that I am a published author working on my second book. (Check Back for that!)
I am looking into book signings and will be attempting to sell it through performing some of the pieces locally here in LA. I don't know how to do all this. I don't know how to be published, how to have a book signing, how to deal if nobody shows. But I'm willing to wing it, and learn along the way.
This book has become part of the larger goal. It will be the fuel that will get me on a plane in January, headed toward the base of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. I am beginning the adventure and will be heading there for a week of volunteer work in a school. This book is full of the fires that have brought me this far, awakened me to where I am to go, who I am to be, what I am to do with this healthy and happy life that I have been so graciously gifted.
If you are so inclined to support your local author, you can order Side Notes on the End Table online at Borders or Barnes and Noble.
You can also find it through my publisher at publishamerica.net
I hope you buy it. I hope you read it. I hope yo tell me what you think.
Peace be with you.
