“Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
The holidays are over. Perhaps you have extra time on your hands. You're back at work, but bored. Maybe you also have an Amazon gift card burning a hole in your pocket. I'm here to help.
Just head over to amazon.com and type "Nita Sweeney" in the search box.
In the late 1960s, a grade school girl from a central Ohio farm presented her project, a handmade book, to her teacher. The plot of "Sheshak the Wild Stallion" closely followed that of Black Beauty. The book's pages stuck out, the cover edges didn't meet, and the ragged construction paper letters making up the title formed more of a jagged scar than a straight line.
Regardless, the girl beamed as she held the book. She didn't even mind the B+ she received. The book represented something she always wanted: her name on a cover.
If you were in central Ohio last Friday, you might have heard that young girl (now a 57-year old woman) cry with joy after she typed her name into the Amazon search box.
This is a long way of telling you that my memoir, Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running with My Dog Brought Me Back from the Brink, is available for preorder.
We're still working on the cover. Endorsements continue to come in. The editor will send revisions. The book won't be released until May. This process is far from over.
But that little girl? She doesn't care about all those big girl details. She's says it's time to party!Labels: amazon, covers, depressionhatesamovingtarget, endorsements, holidays, marketing, memoir, publishing, Roy T. Bennett, Sheshak the Wild Stallion, Write Now Newsletter, writing