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My first official outing to market my book

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and I sold a gazillion!

As I sit here at a business conference run by Tory Johnson in Chicago where profitable business women teach fledgling business women how to succeed when starting up new businesses – I think I’m sticking out like a sore thumb.  The women who are here have proper businesses who are learning accounting practices and networking and market planning.  I’m here texting and blogging selling my book about my urine leakage, my need for MiraLAX, and my migraines.

Most of the women stopping at my table aren’t even familiar with blogging not to mention writing blogs and turning them into a book.  Hmmmmm.  Yet when I was in NYC taking classes about writing and publishing this it was all the rage.

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Seems all the women here are all about making money (some of them need to, and I don’t take that lightly).  I was the only one who didn’t raise my hand when the one speaker asked how many people were here in order to make money.  I’m in this for the shits and giggles.  I’m in it as a hobby.  It started out as me reading other people’s blogs about migraines in search of some help/guidance.  It turned into a “darkly humorous” memoir.  It’s “darkly” because my life can be dark but I can find it funny.  So do my dearest friends.

The lady in the booth/table next to me said, “why didn’t you join us in our ‘pitching lesson’” (sales pitch lesson).  I said, “Oh honey, I need way more Prozac for that to put myself THAT out there.”  (I’m really on Cymbalta, but people only know Prozac so I use it as a general term.)

Keep reading in the future….and thank you friends, for knowing how big a deal this was for me personally to put myself out there for criticism.  And the persistent panic attacks for a week before about getting here.  People who “write” (I don’t call myself a writer), usually write because they like being alone and w/o criticism –  where it is safe.

The conference itself was great for all those women, I think I should just stick to book fairs.  Day is done:

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Tagged: anxiety disorders, business conferences, Chicago, Good Morning America, Miralax Dissolves in Vodka Ya Know, panic attacks, SARAH BERARDI, Sparke & Hustle, tory johnson, writing

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