It was chick lit they said, and nobody reads chick lit anymore. Every publisher in New York told me that my book wouldn’t sell. Some people might have seen that email as opportunity or the chance to make a lot of money, I saw that email as one thing, validation. Then I read it again and again to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating. I read it so fast my brain couldn’t keep up with my eyes. As long as I live I’ll never forget getting that email. Then in May I got an email from an editor who’d discovered my book and wanted to know if I had interest in selling it. All I ever cared about was that people might read and enjoy a book I wrote and I was getting to watch that happen in real time, it was literally a dream come true. I had no idea (and still don’t know) how people heard about my work but the sales kept climbing and the reviews were great and I was ecstatic. My heart leapt in my chest and I was so excited I thought I might puke… total strangers were buying my book!! The next month went by and then another and every single month the book sells would double.
At the end of the month I checked again… I’d sold 301 books. I watched the sales chart obsessively for a week and then I realized it was only making me crazy and there weren’t that many sells so it was better not to focus on it. In February of 2014 I published Party Girl and the first weekend 78 copies were sold… so basically my family members and a bunch of loyal Chic readers did me a solid and paid the $5 to read my work. After the last publisher declined I sat down in my bathroom floor and bawled like a baby, then I stood up walked right to my computer and googled “how to self publish a book”.
At the time I was devastated because being a published author was a lifelong dream and now it wasn’t going to happen. If you follow my posts here on the site or follow my a uthor page on Facebook, then you might know the story of how I wrote the book and then every single publisher in New York said they weren’t interested. Last year I wrote and self publisheda book called Party Girl based on the years I spent as a celebrity wedding planner. A week from today, my first book comes out for the second time.
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