Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Friday, September 26, 2014
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Autumn Inspired Poetry
Today actually feels like the beginning of autumn. Crisp morning, sunny and comfortable afternoon. The changing season is such an inspiration to a nature poet like myself. What shall today's writing prompt be today? Number one or number two?
Monday, September 22, 2014
Someday
Time to start working on the next project. My next book title is "Reaching the Castle Wall" poetry based on finding love. From love at first sight to the first kiss, and heartache as well as finding true love, I want to encompass the entire journey of finding that one someone who makes you happy.
Someday
“Someday I will go there.” He says to himself,
“Someday with time and quite a bit of wealth.”
But he can dream of this wonderful someday
How else does it come to be, this “someday”?
What is a dream? If it not a lofty plan?
To what one can do, be he a courageous man
So we gather our pennies this courageous man and I
And set to dreaming of where we can fly
It will be years if not decades for us reach
The land afar with a white sandy beach
But once we go we could not be caught
In just one place to which we plot
No, the dream is a just gateway
Just a single step into a doorway
And from a dream it will birth such a life
That no one could fathom no matter the strife
One place will lead to another
An endless world of adventurous wonder
And my courageous man will lead me
And I- I will follow him freely
Hand in hand, in a distant land
Finally arriving to where we planned
An adventure awaits us and we are on our way
To a place we dreamed and called “Someday”
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Time for some real blogging
Well, I am pretty sure I have promoted myself here enough. Or perhaps it is never done. Today I just feeling like talking. Still about authoring a book, but really, just an honest moment over the entire experience.
If anyone is listening I hope it reaches someone in similar shoes so you may feel like you are not the only one to endure the promotional aspects of writing a book. I have to admit, I did think this would be a lot easier and a lot less work! I thought writing the book itself was the hard part. And it was I put so much into it. Really commit to each stage of grief, feeling everything.
So here I am self published. I didn't even know that it was an undesirable trait for a book. All I really know is that Idaho has nothing for literary agents and publishers. Perhaps, I should switch gears and becoming a literary agent. There is certainly a demand in my area. Geesh! And as far as self published authors go, I didn't realize what a giant pool I was jumping into. I am one small fish with my little poetry book.
Ideas of grandeur are certainly coming into reality. Partly I know that this is just impatience. I have taken steps and now I know I just need to wait. Not really in my DNA. Next month my book will be reviewed by our local paper, OK that's good. And also next month I have a co-book signing, also good. But both are local. I know that is good, but I had ideas of great. Build Facebook and Twitter and followers here on this blog, you know, like "if you build it they will come" OK that dates me a bit. But you get the idea. Field of Dreams said that I think before the internet. It more like if you build it a million other people already have. OK so I am having a moment of pessimism. Sue me.
So I am telling myself a new mantra today. I love mantras, they do work I think. I am telling myself "Great things happen to me everyday" And now, I am waiting again. Tick, tock, something great, are you out there? I'm ready.
I contacted a Ebook guru courtesy of my local Author Association I joined, very helpful people. Hopefully here very soon my kindle version will be improved. I intend on using Smashwords, but everything I have tried with this Ebook is an epic fail. Ebook formatting is not for the faint of heart. When it is done my book will be on kindle, nook, and a lot of others. In the meantime, I will sit patiently and wait for my book review and book signing. I have sent out a few emails to literary agents that are no where near Idaho in an attempt to reach out and get help with this monster I created. No bites yet.
On the plus side, I added a few very nice reviews from Amazon. Seems my book is not completely hidden in the haystack of other books.
OK venting is over and that feels much better. I hope someone relates. Or maybe has survived this phase and has wonderful words of encouragement!
If anyone is listening I hope it reaches someone in similar shoes so you may feel like you are not the only one to endure the promotional aspects of writing a book. I have to admit, I did think this would be a lot easier and a lot less work! I thought writing the book itself was the hard part. And it was I put so much into it. Really commit to each stage of grief, feeling everything.
So here I am self published. I didn't even know that it was an undesirable trait for a book. All I really know is that Idaho has nothing for literary agents and publishers. Perhaps, I should switch gears and becoming a literary agent. There is certainly a demand in my area. Geesh! And as far as self published authors go, I didn't realize what a giant pool I was jumping into. I am one small fish with my little poetry book.
Ideas of grandeur are certainly coming into reality. Partly I know that this is just impatience. I have taken steps and now I know I just need to wait. Not really in my DNA. Next month my book will be reviewed by our local paper, OK that's good. And also next month I have a co-book signing, also good. But both are local. I know that is good, but I had ideas of great. Build Facebook and Twitter and followers here on this blog, you know, like "if you build it they will come" OK that dates me a bit. But you get the idea. Field of Dreams said that I think before the internet. It more like if you build it a million other people already have. OK so I am having a moment of pessimism. Sue me.
So I am telling myself a new mantra today. I love mantras, they do work I think. I am telling myself "Great things happen to me everyday" And now, I am waiting again. Tick, tock, something great, are you out there? I'm ready.
I contacted a Ebook guru courtesy of my local Author Association I joined, very helpful people. Hopefully here very soon my kindle version will be improved. I intend on using Smashwords, but everything I have tried with this Ebook is an epic fail. Ebook formatting is not for the faint of heart. When it is done my book will be on kindle, nook, and a lot of others. In the meantime, I will sit patiently and wait for my book review and book signing. I have sent out a few emails to literary agents that are no where near Idaho in an attempt to reach out and get help with this monster I created. No bites yet.
On the plus side, I added a few very nice reviews from Amazon. Seems my book is not completely hidden in the haystack of other books.
OK venting is over and that feels much better. I hope someone relates. Or maybe has survived this phase and has wonderful words of encouragement!
Monday, September 15, 2014
Friday, September 12, 2014
Hyde Park Bookstore Co-Book Signing Event
On Saturday, October 18th from 7PM to 9PM Hyde Park Book Store will be hosting a three author event.
This quaint little book store is nestled in the heart of Boise's North End in Hyde Park at 1507 N. 13th St. Looking forward to meeting everyone and I am honored to sign a book for you!
Local authors to be at signing:
Nina C. Palmer, author of Through the Trees
Samantha Jean Whitaker, author of Bomb Shelters and Butterflies
Mara Hargroder, author of Letters I'd Wished I'd Found
Check out all three books on their website www.hydeparkbooks.net. The best part is, if you order online, books are only $1 to ship!
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