Creator Journals 4/30/25

I’m descending into a hurricane of tasks, all of my own making.
Scrambling to get my new book processed. That means I need to do final edits, put together a blurb, find good keywords (a shamanistic practice I still haven’t even come close to mastering) and somehow get a cover. Covers drive me crazy. Despite everything, I’m actually a visual person and I probably wouldn’t pick up a book unless the cover-art grabbed me. I’m a terrible litmus test because I’m a terrible reader. I have a short attention span and often have to force myself to read, like it’s exercise. All this is to say, I’m passionate about my craft but I have a long way to go when it comes to marketing.
There are a lot of skills I wish I could be better at. I wish I knew marketing. I wish I was a visual artist so I could draw my own covers and advertising content. These are all skills I could probably learn, I have no doubt about that, but my time and energy are already so stretched out between work, writing and life in general.
A journey begins with a first step. Right now, I’m learning how to blog. So far, that looks like me saying my thoughts out loud. I used to do the same thing in school. I would sit down at the lunch table and just list off all of my homework assignments to my friends like a shopping list. After that they would start talking about Batman or Harry Potter. It was always Batman or Harry Potter. 

Thanks for having this chat with me. I leave you now to sink back into the mysteries of shamanism.

The Mysteries of Shamanism.