“Self promotion” is the phrase currently squirreling around in my mind. Last week I was coached on how to focus on self promotion. I chose that as my coaching topic because an Advance Reading Copy of my book (also getting used to that surreal phrase “my book!”) is being printed today (today!), and now it is time to promote the book. There are basic steps in the process of publishing, none of which are familiar to me. With that, I am praying for confidence, trust, and boldness as I discern each next step.

Blog. The word “blog” makes me giggle. I just like saying it. Blog. I want to write, always have. Apparently in today’s world that means I want to blog. So here I go, a-bloggin’.

When I was in first grade, I wrote my first story. It was called, “A Trip to the Store,” the most clever title of any story ever. The young girl in the story was asked by her mother to trudge to the store for a gallon of milk. This was easy for me to imagine because I grew up in a town of around 1,000 folks and trudged plenty of times to the store for staples like milk. In this story, the girl was kidnapped by a random stranger. Said stranger took the girl to the basement of a home. Luckily, the idiot kidnapper made the mistake of leaving the brilliant child unsupervised. Keeping her composure, she found some scissors, easily reached them, snipped the rope, called her mother (on a rotary phone), and gave her mother the exact address, as it was printed right there on the phone. The girl was rescued and the story ended with the clever quip, “And all this for a gallon of milk.”