Daily Discovering What's On The Other Side of Fear

I started out this year w/ super high hopes. I was in a good place in the publishing process, and for the first time ever I actually created a “Vision Board.” Lol. It’s funny now to think of all the plans I had. On the board, my “2020 Mantra” was - “Daily Discover what’s on the other side of FEAR.” Little did I know what would actually BE on the other side. 😩🤦🏾‍♀️ Within 3 months I lost my job due to Covid, and was left wondering if I even had enough fight left in me to finish the process all together.

I had to go into full time SAHM mode, resulting in pushing back release dates over and over again. I’d be up all night and then back at it again early in the morning... just trying to get any bit of work done without little hands pulling at my pant legs or tiny voices pestering me for a snack. (Why do these kids ALWAYS need a snack? And why can’t they see their dad standing right in the kitchen? Someone make it make sense!) Then I was constantly losing sleep over everything from marketing to deciding whether or not to release in Hardback form. As an independent author, I just didn’t have the funds to print in the thousands all at once, and printing full color, glossy, heavy weight page books one at a time is expensive to sell.

None of this was easy. But nobody told me, the road would be easy either (cue in the gospel melodies 😩) I’m still sucker punching the “fear monsters” every morning, and battling insecurities on the daily. But I’ve made it this far and tommorrow is the big day. When a part of my life’s goal turns into something physical. I’ve produced something that will aid in creating a love for reading in children everywhere and promote diversity in children’s literature. It’s all important to me.

Tomorrow Nov. 19, at 2:22 (just because I see this number EVERYWHERE...so why not?) my website will go live and you’ll finally be able to PURCHASE these books! (I’ll list the site link in my bio!)