Riding into a Book Launch

I can’t believe my launch is here already. It seemed so far away when I set the date back in the fall. There was plenty of time … and now here it is!

Let me catch you up on what this last month has been like for a first time author!

Setting a launch date and venue was of course, huge on my mind, but December and beginnning of January are challenging to make arrangements. Venues are busy with holiday parties, celebrations and Christmas sales. People don’t want to deal with planning events in February. So it took awhile to get through the holiday fog and into clear sailing for 2025 event planning.

With the help of my publisict, we had a venue and date arranged by mid January, kind of late in my mind …  and then I found out there was another event planned on the same day with the same audience pool. Yikes! 

These last minute changes were happening on the same day as being at the DMV getting an in person DL renewal and sending away my passport for renewal. I was literally sitting on the stool in the photo booth at AAA getting my passport photos while talking on the phone about plan B and C launch scenarios.

As I was trying to rearrange the event to a new date, I found out that Camino Books will be moving to a new suite on March 1st so after February 27th, they wouldn’t be able to host an event until April. 

But, as with most upsets to perfectly good plans, there is a silver lining! After checking with my publisher, it was approved to hold the event a bit early, allowing my readers to get a head start into the journey through Grit & Grace. And, drum roll here, Marni Freedman will be interviewing me. 

Marni, along with Tracy Jones, is my original writing coach and founder of the Certificate in Memoir Writing Course at San Diego Writers, Ink. She has been a part of my writing journey since I wandered into her memoir class in 2016. We have come full circle from neophite author to a published one. I am honored that she will be with me on this, another day of completion.