And Yes, the presentation of my first book took place in my village of the South of France, at the local bookstore!
It has been a big local hit: 55 books were sold on the spot!
Ok, half of them went to aunts and uncles, former boyfriend of the time I was 8 year’s old; others to former neighbours who were curious to see if they would learn something about my personal life all these years far from the cafe and the village church. After all, I am a village celebrity 🙂
And yes, it is practically a self published book because if I sell the 200 books we have edited I will end up with a profit of 200 euros.
But it meant a lot to publish in my mother tongue first and to do it there where my life started. Even if at my little village -we call it small town- there are also those who forced me to get out and seek adventure in the wide world.
Now I feel kind of exhausted at my village café. It feels like, whaou, there were about 100 people there who seemed to be interested in whatever I have produced. Even if I have my blog-friends who are there with their inspiring comments, it is great to have humans with flesh and blood being present.
The next step is to see if they enjoy it as much as I did writing it!
And of course, to translate it!
Wow, that is cool, April! My congratulations! That is absolutely exciting. I am so happy for you! YAY!!!!
Thank you so much dear Erika! You already know the feeling… it is so great to see something materialize … something that begun with a thought, a feeling, a word on a piece of paper!
It is exactly what you say. When you bring something like a book to life you see the whole process of becoming which acutally makes this wonderful feeling. I am very happy for you!
You must feel elated. And your family must be proud of you. 😉
(I am)
Thank you so much, they are! One of the reasons why I started from my village instead of trying directly in english 😉
Looking forward for the english version. 😉
Thank you I will let you know! It is one of my priorities 🙂
Bon week-end.
Congratulations!! I wish your book will be sold so many editions that we see your book in English in a very short time.;) Good luck!
Thank you so much!
I’m a little behind this really awesome news! This is so cool, April.
Thank you so much dear friend! I still can’t believe it is out, it has materialized!
Much congratulations to you! A published book!
I am not ready to go that route …yet with my writing.
May you continue to have success in all you do!
Our weather is a tad odd this spring as we have just had some hail and snow! I am hoping it will not last too long.
Thanks for stopping by my fiction site 🙂
thank you dear Jules! I am sure you have the material for several beautiful books!
I’ve only ever put them together with a few pages stapled in report covers…
At least so far. Did I e-mail you the Labyrinth series? If you’d like it let me know 🙂
It is a first step but it would be great to publish them I think; you qre very welcome to mail me the Labyrinth series!
Not sure how I have you listed…e-mail wise. Send me even a 🙂 to a post (on any one of my WP sites) so I’ll get your current email.
april4june6@gmail.com 🙂