8 days away until my book goes live on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and a few other sites. It still blows my mind that this is something I was able to achieve. I, in no way, think building a career as an indie writer will be an easy road. However, I do want to take a minute to appreciate everything I’ve done up to this point.

• wrote a freaking novel (first in a trilogy)
• edited it four times personally
• had it professionally edited fully
• had a beauty of a cover professionally created
• put together an ARC team (which has started reviewing it on Goodreads for me)
• created this website
• created various videos for my author Tiktok and Instagram accounts
• formatted the book myself using a variety of software
• obtained the ISBN’s to make it legit
• had 3 separate proofs ordered to make sure it was exactly how I wanted it to look

And I did it all while taking care of my 3 kiddos. There are going to be moments in the future where I wonder if I can do this, if I can even get a second book ready to publish, and I want to make sure I can look back at this post and prove to myself that I can do it.

My dreams are important and are worth my energy, no matter how small that energy is day to day.

8 days away. Feels like a dream.