People Are Just Waiting to Celebrate Your Book

Highlights and thoughts from launching my first book to encourage you to write and make a splash with your own.

Up until a month before my announced book publish date of July 27, 2023, I was not planning on a launch party. “I’ll just email my list a couple times and post on social media about it,” I thought. “Maybe I’ll even do some Amazon or Facebook advertising to increase exposure!” Yes, that there was the world’s lamest book launch plan. All those years, all that effort, and I was going to make no hoopla about it.

I had very valid reasons, though. Pulling off a launch party sounded like an awful lot of work, on top of all the work of getting Dear Fellow Spender: Enjoy Using Your Money to Get Out of Debt, Build Savings, and Create a Life You Love finalized and out into the world.

Also, who do you invite to a launch party? Would people come? Suddenly it was like I was 11 years old again, wondering if the Tengelsen twins were really going to come to my birthday party (they did). Did I really want to draw attention to this milestone or just launch it and just quietly, passively, hope it got some…