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You do realize.......Indie Authors Rock!!!!!

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Okay, so this weekend, I was chatting it up with Summer over at Summer's Book Blog....(check her out btw )
http://summersbookblog1.blogspot.com/ 

What ALOT of people don't understand is that bloggers and writers, they have lives besides writing and reading. Okay wait, that came out wrong. Let me rewind and try and pull my foot out of my mouth.
There are some very well established authors like JK Rowlings, James Patterson, Nicholas Sparks, etc. who DO have the ability to write all day to their hearts content. It is their one and only JOB. They are blessed, let me tell you. They also have PR people to help them, and very possibly a personal assistant or two.

Indie writers, we have US. And if we are lucky one day , a personal assistant to help us STAY OFF of social media and pretty much remind us to get dressed. Indie writers do it all. We hock our opus to book blogs, social media sites and friends. We set up the mailing lists, our own personal blog and handle the give aways, ARC's and look for the perfect beta readers. We don't have a team, we have ourselves and sometimes, that's a scary reality.  We are the ones who down copious amounts of coffee, withhold sex from our significant others because we are curled around our laptops after passing out writing "one more chapter". We are the  ones who delegate to our families to get a book finished. We are the ones who are basically the PR pimp for our books.
In most cases, we also work full time jobs, have oodles of kids and a neglected husband.
And you know what ? We do it again and again and again. For our readers, ourselves and our families.

Now, I am not complaining. In fact....this is more of a show of support for my fellow indie writers and for the amaze balls people who buy our books, the ones who review our works and keep coming back for more. Thank you. I am a fledgling indie author, but I am already in awe of the authors and readers. So thank you.

And thanks Summer, Cassia Leo, Lynetta Halat and Nicky Jayne and Jamie McGuire  for being my role models...you ladies rock!!!

And PS...check out Summer's Book Blog......she is awesome!!!

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