I love the journey of self-publishing. The road’s challenging, rewarding, frustrating, and always a learning experience.
One thing I don’t totally love about it, however, is that it’s so dependent on my schedule. I know, I know, that sounds odd. I hear the comments now, “But you can make your own work schedule,” “You can take a day off if you need to,” “You can make sure things get done exactly the way you want.” All of these things are, for the most part, true.
However, what’s also true is, if I get pulled away for whatever reason-sickness, vacation, household emergencies-then the project completely stops. There’s no formatter working on things while I take a day or two or thirty away. There’s no marketer working in the background, promoting while I deal with other aspects of life.
All of this is to say, I’ve unfortunately/fortunately been on a detour for the last month or so. My husband’s job moved us across the country in August. And when I say across the country, I mean over 3,000 miles of driving a moving truck with the Writing Supervisor, the Sidekick and the Bodyguard all in the cab of the truck with my husband and me. They were not thrilled.
We are now, finally, starting to feel settled again and my writerly brain is begging me to get back to Quaking Soul. We left off with me figuring out the formatting to submit it to the printer so I can order a physical proof copy.
As always, thanks for sticking around and joining with me in this journey. I am beyond blessed by you all.
Blessings,
Jennifer
We’re all exhausted, but settling in =)
Oh my, what a detour! Glad you had a safe trip and are getting settled in your new home! Looking forward to more updates on your book! 🙂
What a detour indeed! It’s been quite the experience. Looks like your new book is doing well 🙂 great job on it!
Thank you! 😊
Wow, that’s quite a detour! Moving across the country is seriously an adventure, especially with unhappy furbabies, but glad to know you’re all settling in. Good luck getting back into Quaking Soul!
Thanks Kat! It’s definitely been an adventure 🙂I promise I’ll catch up on your blog soon.
No hurry! It’s not going anywhere. Moving somewhere new sounds more exciting to me.
Glad to hear you are getting back to it!! And glad you had the space to just take a break and do what needed to be done!! ❤️
It can be nice to focus elsewhere for awhile! 😊 now I should be refreshed to dig in again.
Just keep swimming 🙂
Lol 😂 yup.
Another step in your journey.
One crazy step! But it is fun to explore a new area 🙂