I decided to stop feeling sad that my FB and recently Youtube posts don't even get to be seen let alone read. I had heard of short reads on Amazon and decided to do that instead. The Universe then showed me one of Dave's videos 😀 So here I am. I am ready to dive in and write my first short read. I am Bulgarian by birth and there is one gorgeous place in my birth country called The Rose Valley. Bulgaria is the second largest exporter of the super duper expensive rose oil. ( it is so expensive it is called "liquid gold"). When I was younger I would visit friends in the region but never went to The Rose Valley. I thought there was time to do that later. In later years. I am now 50 and still have not visited. I carried this regret with such sadness, because even when I eventually visit- friends that lived in that area have since passed away. But I turned that regret around and wrote a composition for cello and orchestra dedicated to The Rose Valley. In my composition through the music I express how I imagine a day visiting The Rose Valley- from the early 5am start for rose petals picking to the afternoon tea with local delicatessen and rose petals jam. That is the land of Spartacus people, of Thracian Kings, so it is quite special from a Historical point of view as well. I look forward to writing my short read about that- how I turned that regret around, how I transformed it into music. I look forward to learning with you and from you. The composition is called Bulgarian piece and can be heard freely on my Topic channel on Youtube. For those of you who don't know what a Topic channel is- my distributor CD Baby releases my tracks in this Topic channel ( not on my personal channel). I have no access to it, hence comments are turned off. But that is my original music there and you are welcome to listen if curious ⭐

I just discovered that Gumroad — where all my products live — has a feature called Purchasing Power Parity, and I've enabled it across everything. Here's what that means: if you're buying from a country where the cost of living is lower, you automatically get a discount. No code needed. No form to fill. It applies on its own the moment you open a product page. The discount can go up to 50% depending on where you're buying from. I noticed more and more people from different countries joining the community, and it made me think — $60 might be nothing for someone buying in euros with a Western European salary, and it might be a real barrier for someone in a completely different economic reality. That's not a reason to keep people out of the method. So I turned it on. If you want to see exactly what discount you're getting based on your location, head to elevatepublishers.com, open any product, and you'll see it applied automatically. That's it. Just wanted to make sure everyone here knew. Dave