You know… I’m noticing an interesting trend of late… I’ve been doing readings for far more many years than I care to admit to, so don’t ask… it’s quite rude and pretty much akin to asking a lady her age… 😉 and during most of that time, I have a good idea before you even open your mouth, what your question is going to be… as… well… the faces may change but the stories pretty much stay the same and the plot twists that people mostly want to follow revolve around either love or money…
Now… I’m seeing a new question frequently flying in…
Will my book be successful?
Will my book be a success???
Suddenly it’s the question on everybody’s lips…
Part of me wonders if maybe I’ve accidentally slipped into some kind of variation of the game Punch buggy due to the fact that I’ve been co-writing on a project for the last year…
Another part of me… that dark cynical part of me… wonders if it is a new question at all or if it is merely a sign of the times and a modern twist that combines  both the old questions of love and money… a new question that has been spawned out of the trend for radical self-love, the huge increase in networking events and the relentless cheerleading spouted by soulpreneurs which  has all somehow merged together to prod people into writing that book about how they discovered what a special snowflake they are and then further egged them on to turn the journey of a hard life into hard cash…
But let’s put the snark back onto the leash…
Will my book be a success???
Well… really… the first thing you need to do is decide your actual definition of success and what that means to you…
Do you want to outsell Stephen King or are you happy to self-pub on Amazon and get a 5* review from your hairdresser…
And no… that’s not me being bitchy… that’s my way of asking… are you doing this for the Love or the Money… or is it simply because you have that goddamn itch that needs to be scratched… or maybe it’s a bit of all 3? That is something only you can decide… and within that decision, you plant the seeds of your own success or failure…
See… hitting the word count is the easy part… do you then have the capability necessary to cull and slay your precious bon mots and creative babies until only the fittest survive and you are left with words that count…
Do you have the stamina to promote yourself and push yourself forward to be heard in an already crowded room full of people crying out…
BUY MY BOOK! BUY MY BOOK! BUY MY BOOK!
Can you sustain that amount of effort…
See when you ask me…
Will my book be a success???
The question that I want to ask you is…
Do you have enough heart to see your art through…
Because at the end of the day… your success lies in your hands and not in the cards that I hold in mine…
Though I certainly wish you the very very best!!
🙂
Cards by Karen Sealey ~ The Waxing Oracle (c) 2015
