Welcome, debut author Debra Elise!
Hurray, you brought your debut novel, SAVING MAVERICK, released on April 4th. Friends, I've read this one and you don't want to miss it.
AND, she's giving away prizes, so be sure to read to the end ...
Debra says: "Thank you to Cathryn for opening her blog to me today.
So one day
you’re rolling along, plans all laid out nice and tidy and then something
happens to challenge you. Something which tests your resilience for change, and
threshold for disappointment.
Sound
familiar? It happens to all of us. Hopefully not too often, but when it does
how you react immediately after the stomach-dropping hit you just took, sets
you up for a big decision… Turn the disappointment not into lemonade but
opportunity or let it paralyze you.
I had one
such disappointment last summer and it had to do with my debut baseball
romance,
I was so excited when Bloomsbury Spark offered me a
contract last March and chose a November 2015 release date. I had gleefully
told my family, friends, complete strangers, “My book is coming out in
November!” I’d posted it on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, my website. You name it. I had begun to pimp
it, well everywhere.
So, July
rolls around and I’m eager to receive my edit letter from well, my editor, but
what I received instead was a nicely worded email asking me how I would feel if
they changed the release date, for marketing purposes, to early 2016?... How
would I feel? Sad, very-very sad.
I found
myself with this huge decision to make. Do I kick and scream and demand I get
my way like a toddler who’s lost their blanky and end up alienating my editor
and the publisher and perhaps blow my opportunity for books two and three?
<takes deep breath> Or do I set aside my “poor me” feelings and listen to
the “oh, yeah, this makes sense” voice that appeared soon after the need for
the pink stuff in a bottle faded away?
