Go with your gut

I hate promoting myself. Putting myself, my product, my opinion out there is the toughest thing for me, even though I've been told I do it quite well. Partly it's my catholic kid background. "Pride goeth before a fall," my Irish catholic mother always said. I took her message to heart, never going first in class, never voicing an opinion unless asked, and even then... So I'm finding that the business part of the book writing business is dreadful for me. I can't stand peddling things even if they're my own output. To think I tried my hand at real estate once. What was that about?
But we gotta get out there, promote, push, jump in and go with our gut when we sense an opportunity because they don't come along often. Today I wandered into Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream store in Clintonville, a near north 'burb of Columbus. A young woman works there who was in a college class of mine last year. I gave her a copy of The Sky Behind Me, my recently published book, because I'd taken a class with her, and she wanted a copy, and she's a poor college student so... In any case, she took my picture with a copy of the book--her copy--and said she was going to help promote it. This week the picture will be on the Jeni's Ice Cream Clintonville FaceBook page for all to see.
Oh, and speaking of going with my gut, Jeni's Splendid IC is hands down THE most delicious Ice Cream in the entire universe. The Salty Caramel is to die for. My gut shows the result, but I don't care. Tell them I sent you.