The calendar has slipped into September. How can it be fall already? I'm back working part time as a substitute teacher but still writing too. In fact, just a few days ago I got an email from the publisher of "The Lutheran Digest" that another of my articles will be published by them in December and I got a contract from David C. Cook to write seven more devotions for "The Quiet Hour". These will be published in spring of '25. Meanwhile, some I wrote previously were included in their recent Sept '23 issue.
Also, Glimpses of God, Autumn, our award-winning devotional, is on a blog tour. Yay! I love blog tours. Authors and publishers like to get their books on a blog tour mostly for the exposure it gives as well as to increase their number of reviews. (Amazon reviews are so helpful to writers! They increase the exposure a book gets on Amazon, especially once a book gets 50 reviews.) Blog tours do not usually bring a significant increase in sales of that book but "Glimpses of God, Autumn" appears to be the acceptation to that. My co-author, Shirley Crowder and I are experiencing a much-welcomed bump in sales right now, which we are tickled pink about.
