A New Season
Although summer is not yet technically over, this holiday marks the end of the lazy summer schedules our kids wish would never end and it sparks the beginning of a new school year. While our days are beautiful still, with blue skies and sunshine with no rain yet in sight, each evening and early morning seems to feel chillier than the day before.
I personally love the change in seasons. I enjoy spring and fall the most. Spring brings about hope and possibilities as the relenting cold weather from winter finally releases its grip and each blooming flower and the sight of newborn wildlife bring us wonder. Fall might begin the end of warm sunny days with the crisp cool mornings as the sun comes up, but the expectation of coziness our own homes and family can offer gives me a warm feeling no other season can tender.
But I did get here. I am a writer, I am an author and I am now a published author, albeit an indie author.
My book has been published as an eBook for four days now and it is hard to describe the emotion I felt when I first saw my cover on the Amazon website. A day later it became available on the Barnes& Noble website. It truly is something else to see your work out there for anyone to see and read. It’s exciting but even a bit scary. You hope for the best but you know there might be some hurdles to cross when critiques are received as others read your work. I’ll try to take it all in stride and learn from it, making the next book better and the next even better after that. It’s all I can promise at this point. I just truly hope those who do read my book will enjoy meeting the characters and will appreciate the story all together. These characters have taken on a life of their own and I look forward to what they have to offer me and others as I continue to write their stories.