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Veiled Success (Originally Published 4/25/2022)


Getting a book to market is daunting! Finally, after more than five years, nine edits, three printed proofs and a plethora of platform building and printer decisions my latest book, The New Stone Age, was launched.  It was almost anticlimactic for me as I am already onto the next five books I’m writing related to the same subject.

           

My nine member team did an extraordinary job tending to all of the necessary details behind the scenes required to successfully get a book published. The book launch date was selected as April 21 – The Spring Solstice. Religious traditions around the globe celebrate their versions of the “rebirth” message the spring solstice offers after the dredge of winter. What better time to birth a new book?

           

April twenty-first came.  The printing order fulfilled. We have hundreds of books on hand to deliver; the press release was released, mail supplies, tax certificates, postal machine…everything is ready! The team went to upload our proud, new accomplishment to Amazon, the first place people go to buy a book. Then they were told that there was a version already on Amazon of our book but due to some glitch so we could not upload the final version.  Ok, we can work that glitch out.  EXCEPT, when people went to purchase the book, Amazon replied, “Out of Print-Limited Availability.” EEK!

           

After all this?  The team was up in arms!  Here it is five days later and Amazon is still telling us they can’t seem to remove the above page and we can’t upload the final version until that page is gone.  Has all the bling and splash the team devised gone for naught?

           

Although a student of many religions, I was immediately reminded of the Christ Saga.  The steps leading up to his crucifixion, carrying a two ton cross, (uphill no less) with a crown of thorns poking at his head and people jeering along his journey is incomprehensible to me. The fact that people still revere and celebrate that journey some 2,000 plus years later is also amazing.  Christ’s words as he hung on a cross, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do” “Forgiveness – the Christ message is the whole reason for the season” as far as I’m concerned.

           

When someone works really hard on a project and something happens to thwart the projects’ success that is completely out of their control, frustration, anger and blame are bound to set in—and it did.  The team was beside themselves. 

           

I write books that help others yield to the presence of God. I reminded the team that we need to stay in the light and not be angry with Amazon.  I then asked “Ok God, what’s the message here?  What am I to learn?” I wrote God is in the Details several years ago. There’s no reason for me to believe that God has deserted me in this endeavor especially since I was divinely guided to almost every ingredient I needed while writing and marketing The New Stone Age.

           

Although many Christian traditions focus on the crucifixion, I’ve always felt that the real message of Easter is not the crucifixion but the resurrection aspect, the rising out of past circumstances! As I remind the team that we have met our unified purpose: Yes, The New Stone Age, Crystal Data for the 21st Century printed. Mission accomplished! The book’s distribution has been crucified by Amazon.  However, just like Jesus messaged, all crucifixions, even the most horrendous ones that may include experience with peer jeering, blood eliciting pokes in the head and heavy physical burdens, will, if we can remember to forgive the perpetrator as they know not what they do, help us all rise up out of the tomb of despair. 

           

Was our goal met? Absolutely. The issue with Amazon will resolve.  In a way, all that matters is that we, the team, react for all the world to see that we practice what we preach.

           

I’m super excited to see where God is taking this book. I can hardly stand it.

           

May your faith that God’s got this carry you thru your own personal crucifixions that you may be resurrected into more light filled experiences.


Affirmation:  Gods got this!!

“I'm Catherine Wilcox, working to help others see that God is in all things, all the time, through conscious change and self-healing.”

If you have found this message enlightening, please send it to one friend.  This action will help my vision of a more enlightened species to help usher in the new healing Age of Aquarius.

Catherine Wilcox is a Conscious Change Coach, Mentor, emotional intuitive and Writer. If you like what you read here, then you may enjoy one of her Published Books:

**Catherine’s latest Book, The New Stone Age, Crystal Data for the 21st Century, contains ten chapters of information designed to help the novice and intermediate crystologist obtain the secrets to working with crystals to help the four mind-bodies balance chaotic energy.

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