Tonight something special arrived. 🙂
I've *never* held a published book of my creation before.
Is it self-published? Yep! The industry's not always ready for our labours of love, and the translation community wasn't interested.
But still a joy. And good timing too, after my first day's work on the next, Tomás Carrasquilla's most famous novel! 🇨🇴🥳
So what did I do? 🤔 Baked a celebratory loaf of course! To share with neighbours this week. 👌
@MLClark
Congratulations!!!
Your book looks absolutely beautiful!
@Myana Oh thank you! 🤗 When it's a labour of love one really wants to get it all *just* right. Glad that came through!
@MLClark I wanted to let you know that I had some trouble finding your book on Amazon. Your link in your bio worked perfectly. But first I tried searching at Amazon by your name, the writer's name, and the title of the book. None of these brought up your book.
I'm hoping that their site is just slow updating its search engines. But I wanted to mention it in case other readers have problems.
@Myana Oh, good to know! It's been out since April, but it was first in the Kindle Select program for 90 days, and wouldn't ship outside Canada, the US, and the UK during that timeline, so... there is no reason that searching for this text should be so difficult this far out. (Save for the sneaky way that Amazon tries to get authors to pay to be promoted within the site.)
I will check with indie pub friends and see about options! Thank you *so* much for letting me know! 🤗 Very kind of you!
@Myana Oh, that's so kind of you! Thank you for supporting the work! I hope you enjoy the glimpse into another time and place. There's quite a striking collision of pragmatic and deeply spiritual characters, urbanity & ruralism, the rush of modernity at the turn of the century, the hardships in life but also sometimes the beauty. If you ever get around to it, please do let me know if it was what you expected (or not!), or what it reminded you of in other literature. But either way, thanks again!
@MLClark You're welcome! Looking forward to receiving my copy. 😍