May Newsletter
My New Hat!
Most of you know me as a CFO in the real estate world, or wife to Tony, or mom of five. But on the side, I’m a “word nerd”. I’ve been working on writing a book, and I’ve been at it for way longer than I’d care to admit. I’m just now ready to get it out there and share more about this hat of mine coming out of the closet, off the shelf, onto my head, and finally out in the open sunshine!
Favorite Fiction Fanfare
Inspirational and historical fiction is my favorite way to learn. Let’s be entertained by a story as we are inspired and equipped for this life journey! I have two full bookcases to house my fiction collection favorites. I want to highlight a favorite for you in each newsletter, just in case you, like me, need to take a break from any binge TV that’s been going on!
This time it’s Rooms by James Rubart. This author has inspired me in many ways and is one of my favorites. This novel creatively captures the inner workings of a man’s soul in a surprising, inspiring, and healing way – all within the walls of the ocean home he inherited.
Tell your friends!
Publishers are looking for email followers with their authors. Would you help me build my email list by forwarding this to your friends? I promise to keep it entertaining, and the unsubscribe button will be there if it doesn’t fit them. (I’d rather they just hit a quick delete, but I won’t hold it against them if they unsubscribe!)
Grammer Lesson!
You can thank me later…you know who you are!
What’s Your Life Message?
I have found this to be so empowering in everything from my story’s content to how I present myself in marketing. Not to “should” on you, but you really should find yours! Check out my first blog for the story about how I found mine on my website or in my posts in Facebook and Instagram. It was easy and even felt magical! I discovered my life message is “The Energy of Together”. I am truly inspired by all the times I see “one another” in the Bible, and I light up when I see the energy created for the work we are called to do when we come together. It also explains that frustrating feeling of isolation and disunity when it comes my way, and helps me battle through it!
Misspelling Humor
Apparently not! Your or You’re? Maybe this student was absent on homophone day.
About that book of mine…
It’s title is PILLOW, and it’s a work of women’s historical fiction with a speculative twist (an angel named Micah!) It’s inspired by a true story of a woman, a dear friend of mine, with fascinating life adventure, struggles and a testimony of her amazing journey through them. It’s one which deserves to live on as her legacy. I’m on the third manuscript rewrite - that’s just how much I didn’t know about this new area or writing novels I’ve been learning! My new and many-times-revised goal is to have my FINAL edited manuscript complete by the end of this year. Sign up for my newsletter and you can help hold me accountable for this! I’ll let you know what page I’m on, my time split between new content and editing old, one current victory and one current struggle (I guarantee you there will always be both!)
PAGE: I’m on page 265, but it’s double-spaced for proper publishing format, so think of it as 132-1/2!
VICTORY: Jenna, my daughter, is helping me as a Graphic Designer with all these necessary author marketing tasks, like my website, the newsletter email you’re reading, and social media posts.
STRUGGLE: Going through necessary critiques of others, and this feeling of Mount Everest to get to the top of publishing somehow without dying! (I do have a flair for the dramatic!)
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I’ve dug in my heels long enough resisting this! Here’s my white flag of surrender. Find links to my social below.