Pre-Sale Experience – fun and terror rolled in one

I feel like I’ve been spamming the universe with the word, “Illusions”. But the past couple of days have been a whirlwind of setting up accounts, promoting a little and seeking help with promotions.

Yesterday, I found out that my book, Illusions, was on the “Coming Soon” page at www.dreamspinnerpress.com. To say I was excited was an understatement. This is something I’ve wanted my entire life. To write a book, a book that I thoroughly enjoyed writing, to be published. Thank you DSP for this opportunity!!!

I immediately text my family and friends (as many as I could find at the moment) and told them about it. I posted on Facebook and on Twitter. So many of my wonderful friends were excited with me. Some purchasing the book right then! It was an amazing experience. Thank you, thank you, thank you guys!!!

One of my best friends, www.facebook.com/joweil.de Jo placed a post about it on his fanpage. And that meant so much to me. Especially since it was his role in a German soap opera that gave me my first beautiful gay romance. He was on a television show, Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love) and he was one half of the supercouple, “Chrolli” (search YouTube for “Christian and Oliver”, I promise you won’t be disappointed). Between the amazing writing of Tom Chroust and the acting of Jo and Thore, I was profoundly moved by the m/m romance. I had watched “Queer as Folk” and as much as I loved that show (I was a TRUE Brian/Michael lover), it took “Chrolli” to truly move my heart. It was then that I decided I wanted to write m/m romance. It was my dream that one day I could also tell a beautiful story such as that. Sigh…dreams…

Ok where was I? Oh yeah..my whirlwind two days. :) After chatting with another fellow DSP author, http://renaekaye.weebly.com/, I realized that I needed to set up a goodreads author page, set up my DSP author page and still promote the book wherever I could. It was a lot to take in, especially since I had been buried in my second book and hadn’t paid too much attention to what I was supposed to be doing for “Illusions”.  Can I just say I have about 10 guest blogs and I haven’t written the first one?? YIKES!

But then the worries started to hit me. What if no one liked it? What if they hated it? What if they didn’t love Skylar and Aiden as much as I did? Holy Cow, I know how to stress out.! And in waltzed Renae and she helped calm me down. What a sweetheart! Thank you Renae!!

So now, I will go back to writing Demons and promoting and working my full time day job. AND…if I say the word “Illusions” too much, just try and ignore me. :)) I’m just so excited!