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Musings from our mom, Nancy…

I was racking my brain for a new subject for our blog when I realized that one could compare the endeavor of writing and becoming a published author with granny in the kitchen preparing a holiday meal for her family. Neither job is for the faint of heart nor one who is not willing to put in the effort to create a tasty offering.

When feeding a crowd, it isn’t enough just to prepare and cook the main meat dish. One must also plan on including the side dishes. If you’re lucky, maybe your guests will bring a casserole or two. However, when trying to entertain a crowd with your writing, you are solely responsible for adding those extra trimmings.

Writing that bestseller is sadly not enough, for you still have to get your book to the readers. The enthusiasm for your creation sometimes dims when you must keep up with your marketing strategies. For the author, those strategies often include a blog, Twitter, Facebook, and any other marketing tool you can devise. Unlike calling your dinner guests and inviting them over to your house, you must get your invite to read your book out to people in other ways.

And those blogs and Twitter posts are ongoing. It’s almost as easy to get writer’s block on something you need to write weekly as it is on your novel or short story or poem. How many times can you do a mea culpa for being a blog procrastinator before your faithful readers leave in droves? All you can really do is take a big breath and carry on.

For those of you still undaunted enough to keep on following us, thank you. We won’t promise to do better but we will try harder.

Thank you.

Nancy, Anne, and Eric