I just released my first book, An Invitation to Shine: From Invisible to Invincible, and I’m finding myself in that familiar place of having done the thing and now sitting with what comes next. I am about to publish the workbook and have guided meditations embedded with QR codes and next I will work on the audio. The book is out. People are reading it. Sales are coming in. And alongside the gratitude, there’s a lot I’m still learning about this part of the process. They say writing a book is hard, I found getting it formatted and ready to published and now marketing to be a bit more of a challenge I’m working with a publicist and have been on several podcasts, which has felt like a good way to speak from the heart of the book. At the same time, I’m handling all of my social media myself, and I’m noticing how easy it is to overdo it or lose the quiet thread of why I wrote the book in the first place. I joined this group because I wanted to be in conversation with people who understand books as living things, not quick wins. I’m here to listen, learn, and understand how others have navigated this season with steadiness and care.

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL AUTHORS listed below as it takes me a full year to read and select from the hundreds and hundreds of books sent to me by authors, publishers, publishers and more for consideration for their book or books to be selected for a full year of our Passport to Reading Around the World. Since our beginning with six complete strangers coming to join my original chapter of my book club, The Pulpwood Queens of East Texas in 2000, we have evolved to be one of the largest International Book Clubs in the World. We rebranded our name for our 25th Anniversary to Kathy L. Murphy Big Book Love as it was time authors and readers to get serious about our reading. We are on a mission and have been the get go to promote authors, books, literacy and reading around the world. I think BIG and DREAM that one day our world through the process of reading become the world we want to live and be in, We have joined hands around the globe to build bridges of understanding that reading is important, that we can learn about other peoples, cultures, and mindsets to find that we are more alike than we have differences. Don't judge a book by it's cover, read it then share those stories to have conversations. We are life-long learners and now we have "gone back to school", our one stop shop site of SKOOL! JOIN TODAY and don't forget to JOIN on Facebook our Kathy L. Murphy Big Book Love group page and SUBSCRIBE to the Kathy L. Murphy Big Book Love YouTube Channel as I will be reporting there as we transition to this site SKOOL! I cannot thank my webmaster, Paul Roberson enough and he is creating video content to learn all our pages and Authors, you are going to be amazed on how much information we can send our around the world on your books. We welcome all readers, all book groups, podcasters, we truly want to be a one shop shop of connecting our hands and hearts to what we all know can change the world. Books that keep on giving now share, share, share and important to join our Facebook and YouTube Channel as we need a way to get all the information we have been working on this past year to all of you!