When I submitted Sadie and Charley for publication, I never considered what it would feel like to try to sell were it to be accepted. The truth is, I hate sales pitches of any kind. If I walk into a store and a salesperson approaches to try to sell me something I am very likely to walk out – even if I desire what is being sold. If I walk in and am allowed to browse and be left to my thoughts, I will peruse what’s there and purchase based on my motivation.
Once I learned Sadie and Charlie was going to be published, I did what an “author” is supposed to do and created this website from which to promote and sell my book. While it was out of my comfort zone to make myself public on the web, I was surprised to find that I enjoyed creating blog posts. It’s fun for me to write this given the mystery of who will eventually read it. Who knows, perhaps no one will read it. I find the challenge of communicating my thoughts to be intrinsically motivating regardless of the presence of an audience.
There’s the rub: How do you create an audience who desires to purchase your book when you loath sales pitches in any form and prefer to remain behind the scenes in all things? I truly love my little book and hope anyone who reads it finds it to be meaningful, but I realize I cannot change who I am to go full force marketing it. It is rewarding enough to know that Sadie and Charley Finding Their Way is out there in the world for anyone who finds their way to it.
I am finally at a point in my life where I don’t have to play a role of any kind. I have freed myself of all circumstances in which I felt pressure to be other than who I am and am finally able to live moment to moment with no concerns about a future that has infinite possibilities or a past that no longer exists.