I'm happy to say it seems that NOW is the time for it to finally all come together! I thought it would be fun to share the magic that brought it all together in the last 4 months or so, so you can be on the look out for your own synchronicities!!
I had made up my mind that I would just publish the book myself but everyone I spoke with suggested the same "resource" that most people use to self-publish their books and it just wasn't feeling right to me. (Energetically it felt out of alignment). Over the last year, I've kept asking around, looking for other self publishing options that felt more in line with me but wasn't finding anything that felt right.
Out of the blue one day, I was looking at someone's facebook page. She is someone that I have respected for years but she had been banned from FB for sharing truthful information. She had been gone for quite some time, but I heard she was back and I couldn't wait to look at what she had been sharing since her return. While scrolling through all her recent posts, a picture caught my eye and it made me scroll back. It was a picture of she and two gentlemen and at first I thought one of the guys was my high school crush. LOL After looking more closely at the picture and seeing these gentlemen's names, I realized it wasn't my high school crush after all, but I noticed that one of them was an author.
Wondering if he might have some suggestions on self-publishing options that were more in line with me energetically, I looked up his website. Clicking on his contact information, my jaw dropped upon noticing he was in Santa Cruz! I emailed him right away and after a nice exchange it was determined that he didn't have information that could help me at this time.
Later that week, I received an email from him letting me know that he does "author outreach" when he has time - to meet with fellow authors and chat about their books, etc. He mentioned that he was going to be meeting with another author in the area the following weekend and that I was welcome to join them.
Figuring that it was probably good for me to get out of the house, I said I'd be there - not with any expectations - it just felt like it would be nice to meet some other folks who were inspired to write books. My plan was to mostly just listen to them talk and see what I could glean from their discussion.
At one point during our get together, they asked what my book was about so I shared a quick synopsis of the book. The other author looked at me with a little glint in his eye and said "That sounds like it would be a perfect fit for the publisher I work with . . . let me get the two of you in touch with each other."
I couldn't believe it! Here I thought I was just going to listen to them talk and I ended up with a contact to a publisher who liked publishing books like mine! When I got home, I immediately got on the website and everything I read made my heart sing. From the description of why this couple created their publishing business to the energy I felt from the picture of them on their website, it felt so aligned with everything I had been hoping to find. Tingles ran up my spine and it was as if my whole body was saying "Yes!! . . . THIS is what you've been waiting for."
When I met with Annie, it confirmed everything I felt while visiting the website and more! That was when the process began. I'm happy to say that we are weeks away from the book being available for purchase (More on that soon).
Today, I felt moved to share the synchronicities that lead to this moment . . . to encourage others to keep following the nudges they receive, even if they don't seem to be leading anywhere at first.
If I hadn't been scrolling through the gals FB page, if she hadn't posted a picture of herself with a guy who looked like my high school crush, if he hadn't been an author who lived so close to me, if he hadn't been nice enough to actually respond to my emails and then invite me to join in when he met with the other local author and if THAT gentleman hadn't put me in touch with his publisher, none of this would have happened. I'm still in awe of how it all unfolded and how magical it all has been . . .
In my heart, I truly believe this is how it is meant to work and yet I'm equally tickled to experience it when it's playing out in my own life. So here's a big dose of encouragement - trust those inner nudges . . . and do those things not because you are assured a certain outcome, just follow each nudge and see what synchronicity awaits and where it takes you next. Chances are you may find yourself with some magic outcomes of your own!
