Well I got there at last.
The paperback is now available from:
https://completelynovel.com/books/exactly-23-days
Getting to this point has been painfully frustrating and I have had nothing to do with the frustrating aspect of the process. I have not touched this book electronically since June 2015 and I had to liaise with my publishers, relentlessly checking every page of the book dozens and dozens of times to get to a point where I was satisfied that I could go ahead and print the book. The issues arising were apparently to do with the software of Apple and Windows not communicating very well and it brought tears to my eyes on numerous occasions, such was my frustration with it all. The lesson I learnt from that, is, for any future work that I consider for publication, I will definitely purchase software that is suitable for both Mac and Windows computers. That in itself will be a piece of research.
I have given one of my aforementioned talks and I have been asked to speak at business women's lunch.
Today marks Exactly 365 days since my world was turned upside down by betrayal and it has been a day of mixed emotions.
The euphoria of speaking to a book club and people showing an interest in my work, my launch event and being invited to speak at further events, coupled with the admiration of several people telling ME, that I am an inspiration to others, which I find astonishing!!
I have also had friends letting me know that I have done well, my daughter telling me she is proud of where I have come in the last year and I myself have sat awhile today and contemplated the roller coaster ride that this has been.
If somebody had told me Exactly 365 days ago that I would publish a book entitled Exactly 23 days to inspire others to recover from betrayal and lies, then I would have attempted to laugh at them in my tear driven emotional state of 365 days ago.
I did do it though, and now I can laugh in the face of betrayal and walk on in the midst of triumph over adversity and get out there via cyberspace and sell my fiction/faction rom com to the world. I didn't let my illness stop me in my quest either, I used voice activated technology to type as I spoke and I used in built tools within my computer programs as well as my editing team to help me achieve my goal. I am proud. What a difference 365 days can make.
Word of the day AIM: My aim was to help other women survive the turmoil of betrayal and if I get ONE woman who reads my book and says it helped her through her own pain then it was worth it. I had a fabulous group of women to help me and I merely aim to do the same for other women. Nobody who is living their life in the right way, being a good wife or partner putting her husband/partner and her family first deserves to be betrayed and lied to. I would rather have had a husband that told me he was unhappy and chose to leave than the husband who cowardly betrayed me repeatedly behind my back. Yes, my aim is to help other women when we need it the most. The publishing got back on track, now it's a paperback and I am certainly back on track and there is definitely no looking back.
