Recently, after I started sharing about trauma and recovery, this space started growing again after a season of plateau.
It gives me hope and encouragement to know what I’m going through can encourage someone else.
Truth be told, I still think about my next book (the proposal is all done up already), and when to pitch it to the publishers— do I wait till I have a “big enough social platform” before pitching, as advised by my agent so I can reach a “truly big publisher with sufficient clout and reach for greater impact,” or do I just bite the bullet and see where it takes me like I did for my first internationally-published book Dream Brave… albeit with a potentially smaller reach.
At the beginning of my journey, I was told nothing less than a social media following of 10K followers would be published properly. Back then 3 years ago, I didn’t even have an Instagram account!
And now that we’re at 10K, I’m told it’s still “too small.” (I’m talking about the traditional publishing with wide reach, not self-publishing.)
I still wonder if one day this place could explode and I’ll be able to make the impact my heart dreams of making because of the message I believe needs to be heard about trauma recovery. For people and publishers to believe in my heart’s message.
Or if perhaps, it’ll never happen. And all this waiting is for nothing.
Some days I go into a space of “I’ll never be good enough to do anything big enough of impact.”
And some days I remind myself every little thing done in obedience IS impact.
Anyway, this is my long way of saying, thank you to each and every one of you who believes in this space, who’ve been blessed by it, who’ve bought my books and who cheer me on. I’m grateful to have you journey with me for the ride.
In a few days I’m going to be sharing another wild journey I’ll be embarking on… and I hope you’ll enjoy it 💛
Thank you for helping me feel I’m not alone. Thank you for journeying with me. 💛
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