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Self Promotion Isn't Easy

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Promoting yourself isn't easy.    Promoting yourself requires you to step outside of your comfort zone and reach out to people who could help promote your product. In my case, my product is my Unintended Travelers book series . I'm very proud of my books, but extremely humble about them, too. I want people to buy my books and enjoy them, but convincing them to do so is the challenge. I've worked for a long time developing the characters of Brooke and Bently, Henry, Pete, Father Ted, Liz, and even Fenton. Even now that I have been working on another book unrelated to this series, I can't help but continue to think about these characters. Each character has a characteristic of someone I've known over the years, and I've met and worked with many, many people throughout my 54 years of life. Even Jazmine and Golden, Liz's horses, were named after the two horses that my husband and I had several years ago. I used them as one way to pay homage to these sweet horses...

Ch...ch...ch...changes

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"Change begins at the end of  your comfort zone."  ~ Roy T. Bennett There have been many changes this past year and a half. Life has been a whirlwind between relocating to Western Maine, starting a new job, and adjusting to my new life. Now that I'm on summer break, the dust is settling and I can reflect on the past year and on all that I've managed to accomplish as well as plan what the next steps can be. I began the year publishing my last book in the series called, Unintended Travelers: Pete .  It took longer than the first two books primarily because of the moving, but also because I wanted the book to end the series a certain way.  Pete ties together the first two books, provides a continued story about the time portal, and gives some closure to what happens in the second book, Henry , and the series as a whole. Book Signing After I announced its release, I ended up doing my first book signing at the Fort Kent Public Library at the end of March. This was defini...