Why You SHOULDN'T Buy My Book
[image error]I know, this is backwards right? I'm supposed to be convincing you why you SHOULD buy my new book "Bits of You & Pieces of Me." After all, it's an e-book that is weeks away from its paperback release. Now's the time to promote the hell out of it, right?
Right. Except for the hell part. If hell is characterized as a constant presence of pain and misery, then there is no getting the hell out of my book without burning the whole thing.
"Bits of You & Pieces of Me" is a collection of short stories, poems and essays that mark the end of a chapter in my life. A painful chapter filled with misery trying desperately to hold onto some kind of hope. A chapter that was hell for me.
Except that it wasn't. This period of my life gave me the manure I needed to grow into something wholly new. It was a rapid transmutation from one kind of being to another. In part, I wrote my way into this next evolution of self.
And now, like a butterfly looking on her former caterpillar body, I see that person through dim eyes of a life remembered as if in dreams.
If you're hooked on my current blog, Twitter and Facebook style…If you LOVE the love blog I create with the love of my life…then you might be mad at me if you read this book.
Because this is who I WAS, not who I AM now and who I am becoming in every moment.
The hope, light, love and joy in my life now– these qualities are not so present in this book. So maybe it's not for you. Maybe you shouldn't buy this book of mine.
I'm writing more books. You will have other opportunities to read my work.
There are moments of light reflected in this work as well. It's not all doom and gloom. After all, I came out of it as a much brighter being.
But even I had a hard time reading it during the editing process. That should have tipped me off that who I was and who I am are not the same.
It is also the reason one of my Young Adult fantasies, "Death by Destiny," is being completely rewritten. The voice who wrote the rough draft is not the voice I have now.
So don't buy "Bits of You & Pieces of Me."
Don't buy it if you are expecting the Me who is present now.
But do buy it if you feel that you need this book, these stories, to take you through your own initiation from a self-made hell into a life of Magic, Wonder and Love.
Because where I live now is full of Magic, Wonder and Love. This is where I want to meet you. This is the space in which I want to engage in creative exchange. And sometimes we have to walk through hell to get there.
