It’s going well

I have made progress since I communicated with the first publisher. I have published four books on KDP in January and will publish one more book this month, and one in July. I already have an audio voice-over artist and signed an agreement for ten books. I love the man.

I am exhilarated about our sample of the sixth book. I will depart from my devotional memoir style and use an essay mode to reveal the dread and delight of having a first child. I’ll examine the differences in maturing love.

I am seeking a collaborative publishing team to bring marketing and distribution expertise to my work. After they review my published books, I would like a royalties advance to cover the production cost for ten audiobooks. Three of them are already in different stages of production, and I have samples of the first three.

Unfortunately, it is appearing to me that many publishers are making their money in the exploitation of the perspective author’s dreams to be published and have success with their work. It seems like the fees being charged are the revenue producing means for these businesses, and not the marketing and distribution of the author’s books. It’s just a feeling.

My sense of things is that if these publishers can do what they’re pontificating, they would bank on their expertise and the author’s demonstrated abilities in his or her manuscript or published books. I’m thinking about electronic messages here, but it looks to me as though something is sounding like political rhetoric. Just sign a contract, pay us, and we will see what shakes out. Not this author. Not yet, anyway. I’m learning fast.

I’m not pimping your dreams and definitely not selling swamp land. You can be what is in your heart, and you can do what your determination dictates. Disability has been disabled, and you are able to soar above your challenges and feelings of being less than what you used to be. I’m talking to the real you and not the window dressing of a body.

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. Rumi. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. Ralph Waldo Emerson. I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse. Florence Nightingale. Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the key to success. Swami Sivananda. Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. William Feather. Simplysaidbysimon, give yourself a chance with the new you. Or is it the old you in a new way because ALS – All Life’s Sacred. Thanks, William.