If a tree falls, and no one hears it….

Does it really make a sound? Sometimes I wonder. Case in point, I’ve been trying to pull together a book for Angel Babies Forever Loved for a couple of years now. I’ve decided now is the time. I want it to be a compilation of poetry and interviews with moms. I’ve been begging the members at abfl for almost 6 months now to submit interviews for the book. I’ve gotten 3. No joke. We run a newsletter with over 900 members. I’ve been begging please submit an interview! 3 responses. And only one of those is one of my directors!

This isn’t the first time I’ve had trouble getting action out of the membership. About a year ago, abfl was in deep debt. If everyone on our newsletter group gave just five dollars, we could have paid it off. I begged for months. Our founder asked nicely for months. We got about 10 people to donate a few dollars. In the end, our founder wound up paying the debt herself before leaving the organization she created.

I guess I’m just going to have to write my own story, and throw in the poetry and the few interviews I get, and maybe some articles from my directors. It’s not the first book I’ve put together. Angel Babies Forever Loved has a short e-book available online called Surviving the Holiday Season. But it is the first time I will have to get so personal, and write my own book. I know I can do it. I just need to manage my time and work on it a little at a time. It’s just so, discouraging. Makes me wonder if anyone will even bother to read it after I put all this hard work into it.

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