An Unofficial Guide to Soft Launching A Book and Getting Sales Without Ever Promoting It
A reflective lesson in supporting others
Your abundance is not measured by what you have,
it is created by what you share.
— Heidi Catherine Culbertson, Wisdom and Recipes
This quote resonated with me as I made this year a year of sharing and community support.
On Medium, I began supporting other writers and giving equal space to their work in my author bio / footer, so that in addition to discovering other pieces that I may write, readers can also choose to support a writer I personally love too.
On Twitter, I split my personal account from my artwork to create artsharewlucy, a place dedicated to daily art and small business shares. This has been such a fun endeavour in meeting artists. While I started with discovering and supporting other digital artists, this has expanded to multimedia in all senses: resin art, crochet, knitting, embroidery, you name it! Inspired by this, I even started my own crochet hobby, and it’s been such a rewarding hobby.
On Instagram, after lamenting about Instagram no longer supporting small creators, I recognized my unheard need. I wanted to continue discovering other small creators rather than solely focussing my energy on big creators…
