My Contribution to SheWrites Big Day for Female Authors 11/13/09

Today I purchased six books from the scroll across SheWrites site. I am truly proud to be a member here, and feel overwhelmed to be in such talented company. My book has been doing fairly well, but has truly met its media challenges because of the controversy surrounding it. It's been a struggle even with a high-profile name attached to it. I worked damn hard on it for an outrageous amount of years and one of my proudest moments was to see it in the scroll here.

What else did I do today? I went to Huffington Post site and left a comment after a pre-review of Sarah Palin's bestseller book at a blog there. Here's part of what I wrote:

Palin? It was as easy as her whim to become an instant best selling author. I read at DailyFinance that HarperCollins could end up regretting their investment in Palin. Oprah will help fix that, I'm sure.
Let's get back to reading. Oprah, instead of interviewing Palin, should visit SheWrites online and watch the 200+ books scrolling by at the top of the page, all written this year by dedicated female authors who struggled on their own with words of truth and wisdom to offer, only to be left in the dust by a woman who knows so much about Russia because the country's planes fly near her hunting grounds. Visit SheWrites. There's my plug. Let's get back to reading.

(Sorry to those of you here who like Palin, but I shudder to think that she could've been our VP, possibly President had McCain gone down. The link follows to the DailyFinance report about Palin's book and there's some interesting info there, too, about the publishing world that will surprise you on what you may believe constitutes a bestseller. I wish everyone a productive, prosperous, happy, and healthy new writing year.)

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/10/sarah-palins-memoir-why-the-...

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Comment by Marti Rulli on November 14, 2009 at 9:32am: Thanks for your comment Michelle. I always laugh at an old Groucho Marx saying, ""I wouldn''t want to be a part of any club that would have me as a member," and SheWrites blew me away when I checked it out this past summer. Could I really be a member here? Will I "common" the place up? That's how I felt every single moment while writing my book, too. Can I really become an author? While looking around here, I felt such an instant sisterhood with all of the authors here, so I excitely joined believing I can occasionally contribute, and if I couldn't, I could surely learn a lot. (And that I have!) I almost didn't join because I felt intimidated, and maybe a bit unworthy because my book has a publicity edge due to the famous name attached to the story, but then I thought about how that was actually often a detriment rather than an edge. So, I joined and realize there truly is strength in numbers, and a louder voice helps every single one of us. As every author knows, building one good paragraph can sometimes be as hard as building one good house, and thank goodness for editors who help us to clean up and, if necessary, to rebuild. Here, we can rely on one another, even just by browsing, to find encouragement, confidence, information, and most importantly, friends. I'm starting to really feel at home here, and I thank you and the club that would have me for a member for that. :-)

Comment by Michelle Daly on November 14, 2009 at 8:12am: Hello Marti! It's people like you who make me proud to be a member of She Write! You shoot straight from the hip and tell it like it is.
I thought I was the only one who struggled to put my book, I Love Charlotte Bronte, together because most of you seem like naturally gifted writers. I rant and then type myself out of nervous breakdowns. Haha! (But I think I probably do!)
I just wanted to let you know how interesting I found your blog and that I agree with all you say.
Michelle.