It’s been a while since I wrote a blog post. Last one was back around Halloween and now here it is almost the middle of March! What a whirlwind experience I’ve been having! Let me tell you!

So the holiday season was a crazy busy book selling time for me! I sold so many books we had to do another printing! It was crazy. I jumped into the craft/vendor fair circuit and met so many wonderful people! Truly it was a great experience. I love to meet people and chat with them about the book. I got to do a couple of events too. I spoke at the Sullivan-Sorrento Historical Society as well as the Clinton Library. I’ve made dear friends from both of those experiences!

In January we snuck away for our annual vacation to Jamaica and I was able to spend some time researching and outling the next book I want to write. It felt so good to be “back in the saddle” so to speak. But that quickly ended as soon as we got home and I had to return to the real world of working a full time job.

In February I teamed up with two other authors, Laurie Chandler and Claire Ackroyd, to work on marketing all of our books. All of a sudden I found myself walking into bookstores and gift shops to see if they would carry my book. Something that I had not had time to do in the fall when everything just took off so fast. Meeting with shop owners and talking to them about our books is very similar to the years I’ve spent selling advertising so I was in my element and loving it!! But again, I was trying to jam it into weekends or the evenings. There just were enough hours in the day!

Then things really picked up again with lots of emails and messages requesting that I appear here or there. Could I speak at this event? Would I meet with this Book Club? Could I do a book signing? Would I be interviewed for a podcast on this date? It became obvious that I could no longer meet the demands of the book and work 40 hours a week.

So I’m announcing today that as of Friday March 10 I will be done working and will focus completely on this wonderful experience that has befallen me! Jobs will always be there, but this truly is a once in a lifetime opportunity and I’m going to seize my moment!!

Stay tuned because I have great ideas for this blog! Let’s see if I can make them happen!