Writing/Publishing/Humor
What Were We Thinking?
The first book cover and title
I’m so tempted not to share this.
First, please accept our apology for the lemon-yellow Jesus.
When you’re writing your first book, you tend to get ahead of yourself, dreaming of the day when you type “The End,” or hold the completed manuscript in your hand.
I’m grateful I didn’t know then what I know today. You see, the writing is the fun part. Once the writing is done, it’s not anything like you’ve dreamt. At least it was not for me.
While writing you’re on an ethereal cloud of hope. When you step off that cloud you wake up remembering, “Oops, I can’t fly.” Next, you land in a mucky puddle of rejections, marketing, publishers, and agents. Your entire focus shifts from creating a message of hope to keeping your head up, so you don’t drown in the word, NO.
Being a good writer doesn’t mean you have the skills needed to promote and sell. At times we felt like we’d sold our souls. Here we were with a book designed to inspire the world with God’s grace yet the authors had lost all sight of the meaning of the word.
Thank God, we eventually took a look in the mirror, shocked at who we’d become. We had somehow turned our book into a task-master…
