It’s been about a week since my debut novel, Awakening Fate, went live and I’ve been on an emotional roller-coaster!

The fear that people were going to read it and hate it, or not even read it at all, was thick. I had a goal, I wanted to sell 10 books the first week it was out. My goal overall is 100 books by the end of the year, so 10 seemed a good kicking off point.

When I tell you I doubled that in the first week, and I was more shocked with every book sold.

Now, I know selling 20 books in one week isn’t life changing. And I’m well aware that it won’t be like that every week. It was the first week of my first book and I have a support system that wanted to see me succeed. I am forever grateful for that.

My goal seems small to some, but I’m keeping it realistic. I’m a stay at home mom who doesn’t have time during the day to do much marketing or promoting. My evenings are filled with trying to write my next novel, keeping up with social media, and getting to bed at a decent hour. Over all, not the recipe for selling tons and tons of books. I’m ok with that.

In fact, I have a new goal. When I publish my next book, which should be out in the fall, I’m aiming to sell 20 the first week, and I won’t settle for less! Growth. Learning. It’s all a process.

I wanted to share this part of my story because it’s not talked about enough. Would I love to sell thousands of books, of course I would! But I am an unknown author, who is self published, who has to maintain my own social media and marketing, who has three kids to raise and a house to keep together.

It won’t always be this way. One day when I release a book people will know my name, know they like my stuff, and maybe I’ll sell some pre-sales for that one. One day I’ll have time during the day to work on this writing career of mine, and I’ll get to bed at a decent time. (Or not lol)

I’m ok with starting here and growing. It’s the journey I’ve waited for my whole life.

And if I haven’t said it lately, thank you for being here at the beginning of it all!