A few days ago, I hosted my Book Group for cocktails, conversation and a preview of Lagging Indicators. My Book Group is comprised of women who share one fact in common: We’re all expats—hailing from the United States, Canada, France, England and Australia, to name but a few—who moved to Sweden for a relationship or work.
We meet about once a month and many of these women have become dear friends. Like most Book Groups, our choices range from commercial to literary novels; classics to contemporary fiction and non-fiction; and sometimes we eliminate books all together and go to a museum or watch a movie. In other words, we’re not too hard on ourselves! So, I thought it could be a nice change before the summer to have an event around the subject of following one’s creative passion and discuss my writing and self-publishing journey. Book groups are a curious phenomenon; the themes from the stories can spark an openness and exchange of confidences that may not occur in a regular setting. I have found myself revealing things to my Book Group that I haven’t even articulated to close friends! For this reason, I felt very comfortable giving them a sneak peek of Lagging Indicators. After mingling over wine and finger food, we sat in my living room and I gave a little presentation (slides created so professionally by my daughter) about the pros and cons of being an indie author. The questions and comments I received from the Group were so thoughtful, perceptive and encouraging! I am grateful beyond words for their support and positive energy. I hope you’ll enjoy these pictures from the evening as much as I enjoyed spending time with these wonderful women.
Lagging Indicators will be released on July 2nd, but it’s available for pre-order now on Amazon!
Congratulations on this accomplishment! It looked like a beautiful event and I’m so proud of you. So much hard work and having already read it (perk of being big Sis), you deserve to be proud.
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Thank you, Big Sis, wish you had been there too! xoxo
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