The build up to your first book release is this amazing thing. First, you feel this grand sense of accomplishment from just finishing an entire story. No, it’s not like I built a house or made a car run, but still, I finished something that took hours of my time and effort, shaped into a whole story, with a beginning middle and end that people can now actually read.

Then there are all the stages. The days of hell that I call editing. I hates the edits. Hates them. It’s a dragging, drawling mess of cut and piecemeal work where I feel like I’m chasing my tail.

Then the advertising, the sharing, the build-up. The gathering of the tribe who will read the story, which is a step by step, stair-master exercise that makes me feel like I’m going nowhere. At the beginning, I’m all dressed in my eighties exercise gear, plus the big hair and make-up in case someone actually sees me exercise. I look ready and sharp, but by the end I’m a melted mess, all leaned forward and sweating on the console, dragging myself forward. And by the end, I mean ten minutes later.

Then we have the Pre-Order and the Release Date. And every hour feels I’m Animal from the Muppets running back and forth, screaming, and shaking my head and hair. Like a crazy person.

With all that said, my first book Choosing Her Alpha is now available for Preorder at Amazon. Search Isoellen to find me.
It’s right there.
Just don’t lick the cover. I know at least three people have licked it already.
It’s just that awesome.