A Promise

Hello out there,

It's been over a year since I last posted...I have no excuses. I really don't. I didn't have writers block for a year. In fact, my book Limited Truth: A Squad Treble Novel came out in February of 2018. If you are scratching your head thinking that you had no idea, well, you and most people. It's my fault really. I didn't promote it well.

I guess I saw how well received my first book was (which honestly was great for friends and family and maybe even locally, but could have been better overall) and I figured that people would just read it. I barely promoted it. I could say that my day job consumed most of my time or that I've been focusing on other time sensitive passions I won't be able to do forever (i.e. be a competitive Irish dancer) but as I previously stated...that really isn't a good enough reason to fall off the face of the earth.

I will be honest with you, promoting yourself is hard. Not only do I find the writing aspect of all this much more comfortable than playing around on Canva, Photoshop, or the hundreds of royalty free image sites (honesty hour: I HATE the royalty image sites because they never have exactly what I see in my head, but you got to do what you got to do) but I also still find myself being nervous about what people think of me. If my banners and whatnot make people interested or turn them off.  As previously stated, I think this is more of a "real world me" than a Kay Bennson problem. I have always been happiest flying under the radar but that doesn't make you a career author or a champion Irish dancer so let's call that a work in progress.

Where I'm going with all of this is I'm making a promise to myself and to you to be more present with my books as well as on here and my other social media sites. I spend so much time and effort making these amazing stories that it's not fair to myself and to other people that I don't push all the way.  How can I become better if I don't put myself out there for feedback? It's scary, but I think back to what I was like before I had any books published. If I hadn't talked about ENSHRINE to my 5th grade class at the time, I would not be here. So who knows where I will be down the road if I don't make myself uncomfortable. 

So do me a favor, and read ENSHRINE and LIMITED TRUTH. Enjoy them. Review them. I love when my family and friends tell me what they liked and didn't like. Now it's time to hear from more people so I can continue to improve my craft and bring more great stories to you.

Sincerely,

Kay <3