Company Launch

These are some pics from Upon A Star Books Inc. company launch taken by +Maria U, my official photographer. The event was held on Oct 21, 2012. More photos to come!

Social Mediaaaaaa

I like to refer to myself as the anti-social social-butterfly. What does that mean, you may ask? It means that I know how to publicly speak and interact with others, heck at times I can be the life of the party. However, there are many times when I just want to be left the heck alone!

Then came the birth of social media, where everyone and their grand-mama has Facebook and Twitter and something called de-li-cious...Before you could go to an event, have fun then go home and be one with you, yourself and you. Now, you gotta tweet, blog, and post before, during and after the event.

The last few years I have dealt with people asking me, "Do you have Facebook or Twitter?" And I would reply, "Nope." They would look at me funny and I would say, "But I do have email, or you can text me, or just leave me a message after the beep." Sometimes I would even let them know that we can actually hang out in real life at a real coffee shop...

Then came this book that I wrote...and it was just sitting there for quite a while. Finally I said I can't let this go to waste, so I decided to publish it. Let's face it, nowadays you can't market a product without...SOCIAL MEDIA!!

I used to proudly say that I didn't have a personal twitter or FB because I don't know (or IDK) I just don't have time for it. It kind of felt good to be the one that stood out of the crowd, now I'm slowly joining the bandwagon since oh about two weeks ago. On twitter, since I've joined I have tweeted once, and have two followers. Self diagnosis: maybe I am dealing with performance anxiety?

You see, for some people using the internet and social media is a chance for them to come out of their shell or be something they can't be in person, whereas for me social media makes me feel like the last person on the team to be picked. I see people have 300+ followers on twitter or 1000+ friends on Facebook and I wonder how did they get all those people to follow them? For goodness sakes, I couldn't get my own sister to follow me (to her defense she said she couldn't find me). I guess I'm going from being the anti-social social-butterfly to the awkward-social-media anti-social social-butterfly.

Yes, so I admit my social media life sounds like a sad set of affairs, but like everything else I'll work my way through it, and keep you posted!

In the mean time I'm going to get my folks some fried dumpling, festival, and chicken sausage (can anyone say Jamaican-Canadian fusion?).

Welcome!

Welcome, and thank you for visiting my page! This a very exciting time for me, as I get set to release my first children's book. Follow my journey in its ups and downs as I get my book published. In today's marketplace there are so many talented writers (and arguably not so talented writers) who now have the opportunity to have their voices heard. This is all thanks to self-publishing, but let's face it, putting out a quality product is not as easy as it looks. It's one thing to have a great story, but you also have to have a great overall product, along with promoting capabilities. I hope that I will be able to achieve this through hard work and dedication (cliché, but true).

I can tell I am about to start going on a rant, so let me just end this by saying - more details on my debut release to come!