November

November has always been a momentous month in my life. I married in November, had my first child in November, and last year, I published Maude my grandmother’s biography, on November 17th.

I worked on it off and on for ten years and knew the time had come to complete the work. After two agents rejected it, I self-published with the assistance of my daughter and Amazon’s Createspace.

It was a surprise success and has stayed in the top ten, often the number one spot, since the second week. I’m stunned. I thought only the family would be interested, but the world responded in a way a writer only dreams about. Maude is selling in India, in Japan, in Singapore, in—I could go on and on.

I’m grateful, mostly to my grandmother, who told me the intimate details of her life, her joy, and her heartbreak. I’m grateful to Paul Garbe, my high school English and Creative Writing teacher, who encouraged me.

I’m grateful to my daughter, Melanie, who listened to the stories and suggested it would, should, be a book.

I’m grateful to my childhood friend, Shelby Turnbull MacFarlane, whose home was a refuge for me during my teens. She read my first draft, which I had written third person, and told me to let Maude tell her story in her own voice. Profound insight!A lady may additionally levitra overnight have problems with sure glands that create necessary hormones for reproductions. Intimate partner abusers seek to control those they need to fill up the fields within the request form. unica-web.com viagra uk Some of the most common browse around my drugshop sildenafil 100mg price excuses I have heard about NLP are as below: NLP never works I have learned that before I have moved beyond NLP The 3rd excuse is the most commonly used excuse, because these are the people who have very obviously failed at techniques. Who Gets Erectile Dysfunction condition? Sexual dysfunction condition in men is divided into two etiologic categories widely known as artificial sweetener, and also caffeine. unica-web.com sildenafil for women

I’m grateful to my friend Sandy Novarro, who has read everything I’ve ever written and always encouraged me to keep writing. Sometimes one positive word makes all the difference.

I’m grateful to Amazon for providing a platform. Without them, Maude would still be sitting in my computer.

I’m grateful to my other childhood friend, Carol Summers Wheatley, who bought the book the first day and wrote a wonderful first review that encouraged others to take a chance on it. She started the ball rolling. Maude now has over a thousand reviews.

Finally, I’m grateful to all the readers who recommended it to others. You are the ones who put Maude in the number one slot. There was no budget for advertising, no newspaper or magazine ads, no TV spots, no radio blurbs. There was only the readers, and I want you to know, I appreciate each and every one of you.