07/01/2025
Amazon's self-publishing is... addictive. you publish one book, and then it's almost impossible to stop. and why stop when the words just come out?
between my 1st and my 10th books I seem to have a crazy sandwich...
1 was a pure experiment. I was a university student, and one of the courses I had to take had an assignment to write and illustrate a children's book. I finished, turned my assignment in, and a year later, found my manuscript and loaded it into Amazon's KDP thinking that no one will ever publish that crap... only to wake up to an e-mail that my book was live for sale. when I was done putting my eyeballs back, I went on to write the second book.
2 is me raising my dirty heel on a golden calf of crystal healing. no, seriously, if you listen to local gurus, crystals can do no wrong. yeah, right (pun very much intended). as a matter of fact, in the past 5 years (the book was published in 2020), I gathered enough material for the second edition. no, not right now. but the idea is rich.
3 wasn't even my idea. I was student-teaching during all the COVID lockdowns, completely online, and my instructor said in one of our classes that this was such a unique experience that one of us must write a book about it. say less. but Dr. Hamilton doesn't have a crystal ball, and he could not possible know how nasty that unique experience would be for me. I named names and quoted e-mails, showing everything, all the way up to my middle finger (no joke, page 59). it's scandalous and provocative.
4 is about Solar Return ritual that takes 13 days. I gathered everything I did, learned, and researched and put it all into one text. 0 sales. I changed the cover just recently, not sure if it will help.
5 is the result of my neurographics hobby that turned into teaching. after watching 100500 lessons and taking a course on creating my own algorithm, I remembered about the ritual that I complete every Winter Solstice, and this algorithm, large and involved, almost came together by itself.
6 is the same stuff, I even deliberately searched for the algorithms for 5 stages of grief and could not find any. my cat's death triggered me, taking me through each stage, and I easily drew 5 algorithms.
7 is the guide to reading an astrological oracle deck called Symbolon. also 5 years of studies and practice poured into one large text. turned out, there are no books on how to read Symbolon deck (besides the little white book that comes with it and is utterly useless).
8 is the second piece of bread in the crazy sandwich: a coloring book based on the very first one.
I'll try to figure out how to post the links to Amazon items later.
