Oh my goodness I think I might be just about ready to launch šš„ššš¤ ššš¢š§ššØš° within the next six weeks and I couldn’t be any more nervous!
Self-publishing has been a really long and tricky process and I feel like I’ve learnt a lot along the way but I’m finally happy with the book and hope that it will be well received.
I know many of you signed up to be the first to hear about the launch date but we have had some changes in the background and it’s important that I share them with you.
Due to the nature of trying to find time to work alongside a fellow neurodivergent creator (with both our demanding home lives and work schedules) I have decided to push on to self-publish the book alone.
In an ideal world both Jodie (from The Nurture Programme) and I would have found the ability to see this project through together – particularly as we had big ideas with what we could do with the project.
I know that Jodie will be disappointed with that decision and it’s not one I’ve been able to make lightly. I have to share that it was Jodie’s passion and enthusiasm that got this book going, without whom, I doubt that I would have continued writing. I owe her a huge thank you for every bit of support she has given me along the way.
However, with my own demand avoidance and executive functioning difficulties, I fear that if I don’t push on into the unknown then I will lose the capability to finish it. I want to be completely transparent that I really do struggle with not having a deadline, as well as coping with changes – but above all else I have an inability to fulfil my own aspirations. There are so many times, as an adult, that I could have achieved so much more after university but I found it too difficult to push through.
My need to pull away is hitting another high so I am trying to put strategies into place to make this process easier and to not lose sight of getting the book launched.
I have a window of opportunity right now to get the book into print and hopefully distributed using Amazon so that it can be launched. It might not hit the readership numbers that we once dreamed of but I feel that if it can just say I’m proud that I pushed through my own barriers then that will be enough.
I’m sure many of you will be able to relate to that too.
Sadly, this means the newsletter link that many of you signed up with is now redundant and won’t be used again.
I will need to build from scratch again but I hope that it is possible. 
If anyone wants to rejoin the list I would be so grateful!
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