Finally Made It 😁

I do believe I had just subscribed to Steve Laube’s blog posts when Thomas had the first webinar introducing Obscure No More. I loved Thomas’ presentation style and positive energy so much, I immediately went to Author Media and subscribed. I spent the next few months listening to all available episodes in the backlist.

It is an honor to finally be part of the Obscure No More course!

My name is Wendi. I have been writing since middle school. I lost most of my handwritten works in a house fire in 2006. I’ve also lost several archives to technology failure. It’s not the horrid tragedy it seems, because I have only been in church a dozen or so years, and most of that writing is not something I would want my kids sorting through after I’m gone.

I spent 2 years working on my debut novel, While Your Dreams Are Coming True. It is about a girl who auditions for a singing competition shortly after her mom dies, and she struggles with whether or not she is in the will of God as she hides a secret from the judges and the audience.

I had a plan to release it May 1st and capitalize on Mother’s Day with quotes about her missing her mom and such. We also set money aside to attend more church conferences than we normally get to go to in one year, to market the book offline. (A large subset of my target audience is not online, or on social media.)

My mom passed away the week of the book launch and her funeral was the day it released. I let all the pre-scheduled things play out, but I could not get into the promotions because it felt like I was trying to profit from my own mom’s death.

We did make it to all those meetings, but what I found in the wake of my grief was it was far too hard to talk about my book with people. I wanted to be professional and talk about what the character was facing, but it was really not working out for me.

I hope to be transparent with my readers about that as I build my email list and follow through this course.