Saturday evening my friend and I went to Vietopia for dinner, and we just happened to walk into a beautiful performance by lion dancers and dragons greeting the new year. We were lucky to snag two seats at the bar as obviously the place was full. But sometimes things just work out.
Hopefully it’s a good sign – maybe the Year of the Horse will indeed be a lucky one, though I still feel like I’m stuck in shedding mode. Maybe by the time I’m done eating through my box of oranges, which are indeed very good, I will feel different?
My friend sent me a horsie in the mail. She said she looks like me. I’ve been trying to grow out my hair to look like Lana Del Rey and it’s currently getting in my eyes and annoying me. But maybe if I’m patient this will pay off?
I’ve been trying new things as far as book promotion is concerned, but sometimes I feel like I’m screaming into the void. Saturday night my friend told me that she finished Breakaway Bridesmaid and really enjoyed it. That made me feel really good, and reminded me I need to keep trying to bring this book in front of the right kind if readers.
I had started this thing where each month I’m supposed to focus on promoting one of my books, and this month it was The Glory Days of Aimée Bonnard, but then Lana released her new song and I became obsessed with it and started making videos about Miss Vulpe.
Oh well. Maybe I should hire an Etsy witch instead of doing all this book promotion?
Or maybe in the Year of the Horse Reese Whitherspoon will stumble upon one of my books and things will change just like that.
Last week I had a good conversation with an artist friend who compared trying to sell art to fishing. I liked the analogy a lot. Because basically, once you have the whole setup, you just wait and wait and wait and need to find ways to do so pleasantly without tugging impatiently on the line. Maybe I need to find ways to be more zen.
