Excuse me, but I have a dream to make real... I know nothing comes easy. I know this, so why do I forget it all the time? Every time I set out to accomplish something I expect to get from A to Z, just like that. As if all the other letters in the alphabet don’t exist. When I began writing the children’s book “What Does the Tooth Fairy Do with Our Teeth?” I thought it would be a breeze; write a good book, send it to a publisher, take the best offer I got (because of course I would get multiple offers), and then instantly become a successful children’s author. Ha! Instead, I crashed headfirst into all the letters between A and Z. Some of them twice. I’ve been up and down more times than a horse on a merry-go-round. “I can’t believe I just wrote that!” I’d marvel in one moment. In the next I’d scold myself; “Who do you think you are? Why do you think you can do this?” I’ve been told I’m a great writer and will go far. I’ve been told, “You’re a rookie; don’t quit your day job.” Promises were made, promises were broken. Things went right, things went wrong. My manuscript’s been rejected more times than that merry-go-round went ‘round. I’ve never worked so hard in my whole life to get to letter Z. But I’ve never believed in anything before, as much as I do this book. I learned what perseverance is. It’s when you fall down and refuse to stay put. It’s when you trust in something so much the ups and downs become bumps in the road that you step right over. Or on. You pave yourself a new road because all the others are blocked. You pave it brick by brick, and your sweat drips into the cracks, cementing them. And on that road you post a sign you carved with your own two hands. It says; NO TURNING BACK! So you don’t. You brush off the dirt from your last fall, patch up that bloody knee with a band-aid, and take the next step. And the next. One day you step right up to letter Z, where your dream is not a dream anymore but a reality. And you know it was all worth it. Every bump. Welcome to my dream-turned-reality. I am so happy and proud to announce that my book “What Does the Tooth Fairy Do with Our Teeth?” WILL BE AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.COM TUESDAY, AUGUST 28!! THAT’S TOMORROW! I hope you love it as much as I do, and that you walk right up to those bumps in your own road and say, “Excuse me, but I have a dream to make real.”
Posted on: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 12:09:47 +0000
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