Too excited to sleep!!

Word is getting out! My friends are posting my link on their pages and asking their friends to visit my "Inside a Girl's Heart" FB page! Slowly but surely, people are viewing the page. Thank you all so much for your help and support. I really appreciate it.

"Inside a girl's Heart" is my collection of poems I've written since the age of 13. From my first love to becoming a wife and mom. Whenever anything would trouble me or make me sad or angry, I would write about it. There are poems in there about feeling helpless, poems about my friends and the troubles they were having in their lives. But it's all written in the first person; as if it were me going through it. Over the years I've watched friends go through things that were causing their hearts great sadness. I have hung up the phone and started writing. This book covers 30 years of life. I usually don't write when I'm happy, so I think the book tends to be on the dark side, covering deep emotional feelings. Some I read and even though it's been years since they were written, I still cry. The most recent are the ones that deal with my dad's struggles as a quadriplegic and his death. Raw emotion splattered on a piece of pater.

I keep checking my book status online; they have made the thumbnail of the book cover to use on web sites such as Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com. They are submitting the book to search engines and preparing promotional material such as bookmarks and postcards. I'm going to have to market myself to the smaller book stores.

I know a woman who is a published writer and she writes under a pen name so that no one even knows it's her. She said her family doesn't even know because she doesn't want to deal with them thinking she's writing about her. I'm sure that will happen with some of my poems. There are several poems with people's names right on them. But Ron and I were talking today about people thinking I wrote something about them. I doubt anyone will get them right. But if you think you see yourself in one; feel free to email and ask. I'll let you know if you were my inspiration!