The ups and downs

This business is a hard one!  Let me be frank and real about that!  There is so much competition that its hard to get your name and your work out there for people to hear about or read, which is the whole point, right?  Not to mention the unimaginable number of "tastes" when it comes to people's preferences in the books they read.  Which can be a bit tricky when you are a people pleaser by nature.  The reality that not every one is going to LOVE your work, can be difficult to swallow.

With the release of my second book, "Riding the Perfect Wave, part two" the sequel to "Finding the Perfect Wave", I had imagined that this release would be this glorious moment in time. Now that I was the published author of two books, people would instantly give me credibility and would swoop in to purchase my books, leaving nothing left on the shelf-so to speak.  How disappointed I was to find that it was the same as the first one...pretty uneventful. 

At moments, it seems all too hard for a happy wife and mother of four, whose life is pretty darn good, to deal with all of these ups and downs...and just as I begin to entertain the idea of walking away from it all and riding off into the sunset, to never turn back...I get a gentle reminder of why I'm on this wild ride.  I receive word from the most unexpected person, who has not only read my work, a huge feat in and of itself, but reached out to share with me that these books meant something to them, made a difference in their life and actually thanked me for writing....

I just find it so incredible that at those low moments, when its over in your mind...somebody has the idea to send a thank you message to the author of the book they just read.  Are these coincidences?  I don't believe so...when moments like these happen, I look upward and thank Him for reminding me why I began to write in the first place.

I'm not giving up...at least not today!  I will stay on this wild ride, maybe puking the whole ride...but I'm sticking with it.  After all, isn't that what makes life fun and worthwhile?  I suppose that by sticking to hard things is where we will find the greatest rewards!