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Four Years of Thankfulness

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Four years ago, I began my journey as an independent author. Four years ago, as I chaperoned my daughter's Kindergarten field trip, I anxiously checked my phone and waited for those first few sales to start. I had a goal. I had to sell 4 books to re-coup the cost I'd spent on the cover (yes, can you believe I paid money for that first awful cover). I knew nothing. Absolutely nothing. My book was woefully unedited. I had it edited. I changed the cover. I published a paperback, making it somehow real. I started writing my second book. And I waited. It didn't sell much. More than the 4 books I needed, but not much more. Then I learned. I networked, I listened, I worked. I wrote. And I wrote. And I wrote. In the 4 years since Good Intentions  was published, I've released 9 titles (8 novels and 1 novella). I hope by the end of this year to have 10 novels out. And I wouldn't be here without the support of so many. No man is an island, and certainly no one in