It’s been a challenge but my upcoming noir novel UNSEEN EMPIRE is finally in the last throes of edits! Name it … the publishing company’s physical office being moved, mutiple computer issues, and general life stuff of course happened … but it will never deter these books from coming out!
My daughter Cassidy and I had fun taking photos of her recently with the book in her hand!
Soon!
I will of course keep everyone posted when UNSEEN EMPIRE is available on Amazon!
My book launch was at a brewery! With live music by Rusted Roses at Project Barley … because my main character Rae in my upcoming domestic noir novel UNSEEN EMPIRE listened to that band and went to that brewery. 🥃⚘️
✨️Unseen Empire due on bookshelves at the end of November!
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Sneak peek of our free bookmarks for ✨️ UNSEEN EMPIRE✨️… we are gearing up for my newest novel’s pre-launch party in Lomita on Sunday! I will also be signing copies of my other books, including The Time Traveler’s Apprentice at Hollywood High, Epona’s Gift, & The Fairies of Feyllan.
Live music, pizza, beer, & books! Come say hi and have some fun!
Here is an article I recently had published in the Anderson Valley Advertiser about my cat Athena needing emergency surgery and a wonderful community that rose up to help!
I don’t know about you, but at any given time on any given day, I have a lot of good intentions aimed in a lot of different directions. For example, while I am first and foremost an author, I am also an animal rescuer with 11 critters to tend to daily here at Pixie Dust Ranch. I also work part-time as a marketing specialist and editor. I’m studying to get my real estate license and I’m taking a comprehensive online marketing course. I’m a book publisher and I manage a 40 acre off-grid parcel where I live in the woods. And I try and stay close with my adult children and my “glamkids,” even though distance and our hectic lifestyles sometimes hinder those efforts.
To keep up with all of these challenges, I constantly must “re-focus” daily, to wear so many hats!
In order to keep on going with my myriad of projects, I often glean the wisdom of others who have gone before me. Here is a list of 30 quotes I find inspiring that help me “keep on keepin’ on.”
The Quotes:
1. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King
2. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
3. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci
4. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb
5.”Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
6. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
7. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
8. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
9. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
10. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
11. “If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” – Thomas Jefferson
12. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
13. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
14. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
15. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
16. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
17. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
18. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan
19. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
20. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
21. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
22. “If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.” – Malcolm X
23. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford
24. “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
25. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
26. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
27. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
28. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
29. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
30. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
(*Original list of quotes from Billionaire Mindset @thehustlefactor /Twitter)
I wrote this article after a school shooter lockdown April 3 at my daughter’s work at the local school district. We know several souls involved who are still emotionally damaged from the incident.
Cat Spydell 