I am on the way home from spending three days in LA, CA at meeting of public school teachers, trying to sell books. It is only the fourth conference we have displayed at. Each time we learn a little more. The lesson that we keep learning over and over again is: We have the right book. We have the right market. We have no idea how to sell it.
This weekend confirmed all of that. It feels as if we are spinning are wheels a bit, which can be frustrating. There was one small moment, which melted much of that frustration away. It lasted no more than 30 seconds. A woman whom I had sold the book to the day before came up to the booth almost panting. She was desperately looking for me and she was glowing. She said, “I read the first chapter of your book last night and then called my husband back home. I started explaining what I had just learned and he said, ‘You learned all of that from just one book.’ I told him no. I learned all of that from just one chapter.”
Little glimpses of hope like that help to keep fighting on.

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