 Pennsylvania, March 3, 2006, 12:15 PM
Since its release on 1/18/06 specifically for the 2006 Lulu Blooker Prize Award, project AIJAN has been rolling along in leaps and bounds!
However, since this is a self-published effort, I'm also wearing the hat of publicist, proofreader, marketing guru, saleswoman (not a new hat, I'm a former street vendor and online book store owner from New York).
Once the enthusiasm of "gosh-durnit-I-wrote-a-blook!" (Blook: Book based on a blog) abated a bit. I sat down and actually re-read AIJAN... about 8 times and each time I came away with... that was a great read... I wrote that? Then next would come, "but you know, that article although true and cathartic (one about the ex)... does not necessarily have to be in print..." LOL. Or, "if your best friend wrote a book, would you encourage readers to buy it, when it says that?" Or how about... "your co-worker? Or that person, or that and that?"
After giving myself that reality check, and fighting the avaricious demon in me that stated, "But it's juicier that way!" The part of me that makes me cry at the drop of a hat or three, prevailed. This means that, although I stand by my product as truthful entertainment and I'm goshdurned proud of every bit of it; I've realized the responsibility that goes with the author's pen and as such I'm currently in the process of revising, relocating or just plain removing certain chapters of the book.
The newly revised version will be available by June 1st.
I'm just goshdurned glad that I realized the difference between cathartic vs publishable material before I'd printed like a 100 copies or something!
That being said... I've a contest going for a copy of the soon to be extinct original version of AIJAN up for random drawing until midnight of March 15th.
To enter please send a with "AIJAN Contest" in the subject line.
Here's to the winner in you!
Peace,
Dee |
