During the time the Penny's Project blog posts began posting, and my new novel, Stepping Into Sunlight was heading out to meet the world, I was blessed by many kind acts specifically thought up by friends as a way to support the new book. I just had to share a few of them here.
In part, I share these to say a huge THANK YOU to all the people who have brought me to tears with their kindness, but also because some of these are ideas you may want to use in supporting a favorite author one day.
Janelle spent a day with me (and more time later) creating beautiful hand-crafted "Penny's Project" notebooks that I could give as doorprizes, to store managers, and to people who came to my book launch event.
Laura and Ginny both wrote and offered to mail out postcards to her friends to tell them about Stepping Into Sunlight.
Deena wrote and said she was declaring October to be "Sharon Hinck Month" on her blog, and was personally purchasing my books to give out as prizes.
Cynthia included a full-page ad in her fall magazine - as a gift!
Judy wrote to tell me how much the book meant to her and that she planned to get it ordered by her library system.
Jeanette composed an email about the book to send to everyone she knew.
Joyce emailed and reminded me she was praying for me throughout what was a very busy month for her.
Sue stopped me in the church lobby to tell me about certain scenes she really liked in Stepping Into Sunlight - which totally encouraged me.
Those are just a few examples of the kindnesses that were shared with me recently.
And of course many of you talked about this blog project on your own blogs and directed people here. So thank you to everyone who participated in sharing their terrific ideas, who posted comments, who sent me emails encouraging me in this project, and who also wrote to tell me how much the book spoke to you or encouraged you.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
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