Celebrating the Little Wins, Ignoring the Noise
Hello dear one,
You must have read the last newsletter by now. So, here’s the news, if you haven’t found out yet - my first book of fiction, my debut novel, Little Miss Happening is now out for pre-orders.
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And people are purchasing their copies, and arranging meet-ups to get a signed copy.
I am really thrilled by this response and if I knew, that even during pre-orders people would be so warm to my first book, I would have gotten it published sooner than later.
These days, one by one, I am posting the entire journey from ideation to writing to publishing on my IG account. If you don’t follow me there, maybe you would want to go through the posts using this link.
Wanna check out my new book or buy a copy?
Here’s the link for paperback, if you are in India.
And here’s the link for the e-book, if you live anywhere else.
And here’s something more that happened.
With the response showered on Little Miss Happening, I woke up this week and found the book as #1 on Amazon’s Hot New Releases.
Soon, it was also up on Amazon’s Bestsellers as #3, just after J. K. Rowling’s books.
Now as an experienced writer, I know there’s still a long way to go. The book is going to reach the buyer’s addresses in August. The readers are going to read it and drop a review on Amazon. Or, they would personally text me about how they thought of the book. This process is going to continue forever till the life of this book.
This is just the beginning.
And yet, I am also just a woman who wrote her first ever novel. Not a short story. Not an article but a full-blown novel. I know the hard work that went into it - not just in ideation or writing it down, but in getting beta readers, in doing the editing, in working with a publishing team and making decisions together, everything.
And for that version of me, this is still a win. And for my inner child, to have her name on the same page as Rowling? A dream came true!!!
So, here’s your reminder to keep pursuing your dreams despite those self-doubts, despite the external noise when someone comments on how you aren’t a good enough writer, or this or that.
People are always going to see you as ‘too much’ or ‘too little’. Remember, that you can choose to feel ‘just enough’, anyway.
I hope you all have a seamless experience in ordering the book and receiving your copy.
Have a beautiful week ahead!
Love,
Sanhita
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