What a whirlwind couple of weeks this has been! My e-book Lest We Forget: Things Holocaust Survivors
Need you to Know, was published for Kindle on Amazon.com, and after several
requests for one, I began working on a print version of the book. I originally
planned on having it ready in a few months, but instead, I am working steadily
on it, well, as steadily as I can while still teaching middle school full-time.
Additionally, I have been completing an editing job.
One
thing I didn’t plan on was the amount of time that would be required for
marketing the book. I am spending hours on social networking, newsletter announcements,
and attending functions where I can network and promote the book. I am also taking every opportunity to meet more survivors and liberators.
With all of this going on, ideas for new projects just keep
coming, and I am in the process of designing a writing course to pilot this
summer. To say this has been a crazy time would be an understatement, but I
wouldn’t have it any other way. Writing and editing jobs are pouring in, and I
love every minute of it, and so far, response has been good.
My article in the Jewish Press, “Eight Things Holocaust
Survivors Need you to Know,” just reached over 1100 Facebook “likes,” and I am
blown away. It’s incredible to think that so many people saw and appreciated the
messages that I tried to share from survivors. Reaching that many people would
take me years to accomplish teaching at the middle school.
I am feeling incredibly blessed and inspired right now. My
writing work suddenly feels like more of a full-time job than my teaching job
does. The only problem with that is that I have more ideas than time to follow
through on them. Be careful what you wish for, I guess, but I know it will all
work out.
Life is good!
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