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Thank You For a Successful Self Publishing Workshop!

Tonight was an absolute blessing! Thank you to everyone who attended Self Publishing 101 workshop! 30 signed up and quite a few made it! Such great questions and dialogue! Despite it being a webinar, we make it as interactive as possible!

I’m always thankful to God when I can pay it forward and help out either future authors or current ones with the self-publishing process, whether it was steps that they didn’t know about or they’re going to view the journey a different way. It’s wonderful when you hear back from people that have started the writing journey, are midway or are reaching the finish line of publishing that book and you know that you were part of the journey. I thank you all who attended, who took out a couple of hours out of your time this evening, it was appreciated and not taken for granted.

Stay tuned for Self-Publishing 201 coming this fall.

Huge shout out to the Alexandria City Public libraries, and in particular the Duncan Branch and the Friends of the Duncan Branch for sponsoring tonight’s workshop so it was made available for free to participants.

No matter what it is you want to do in life, the first thing you could do is take one step and take another step after the other until you accomplish the goal. It can be done.

Blessings!

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Reconstruction Anniversary Year #7!!!!

Last day of June already! Thank you to those who have reached out to celebrate 7 years of me being self-published. Here’s my book trailer that was produced by my friend Bradley Evans, the music is by my friend Alejandro Perez’s band, “Melody Memory” such an awesome collaboration! The artwork that you see throughout the trailer are different pieces that are actually embedded through my book by other friends as well such as Samax Amen, Riki Johnson-Atkins, Soukaa and David Rodriguez (who’s painting you also see on the book cover).

As artists, it’s wonderful when you can reach out to people and they help you on the dream path, and then in turn you can help them out with something as well. Feel free to check out the video below for the trailer. 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

Shout out to Dee Hill for the author photo, Dawn Adams for the editing and Stacy D Luecker of Essex Graphix for the cover layout and typesetting.

Blessings to all of the author’s who poured into me to get me to this point, collectives and groups…this book started being birthed in Dallas, TX (moving there was truly designed by God…thankful for it). They are ArtLoveMagic, Art Conspiracy, South Dallas Cultural Center and The Writers Block!

Also for those who would like to support by purchasing my first book or all whether it’s paperback or e-copy, you can scroll through my website and not only check out the store, but feel free to read my inspiring blog, check out other publications I’ve been in such as anthologies and much more. Many blessings to all. ✌🏾

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Happy 7th Anniversary to Reconstruction, Pieces of Life Vol #1!

Hello everyone!!!! Today marks 7 years that my first self-published book, “Reconstruction, Pieces of Life Volume 1” was made available to the public!!! Check out a poetry set I did on Facebook Live (hence the commentary) in honor of publishing my book below 👇🏾

 

It took YEARS for me to finally publish it…what pushed me across the finish line is when I became very ill with Lyme disease. I said to myself and loved ones, “If anything happened to me, I wanted to make sure to leave a legacy behind for my son.” I slowly started putting the pieces together and working with a dynamic team of artists and my editor and my dreams came true.

We all face obstacles in life, some are a whole lot harder than others and some will even knock us down. Despite it all, even if you work on just one small thing a day on pursuing your dreams, do it! Those small things start to snowball into something bigger and before you know it you would have birthed whether it’s your first book, an art exhibit, your business, planning that dream vacation, steps to buying a house…whatever it is…just start.

Thank you all for your support and love! If you don’t have a copy of Reconstruction or any of my books, you can find them on this page at the store

(The store also has e-copies available)!

If you live outside of the United States then you can find my books on Amazon.

Many blessings!

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