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Okay, so if we're going to title this episode anything, I think it should be the struggle

is real. Or if you are struggling, you are not alone. Let me give it to you. Here's what's

going on. As you know, my book launch date after eight months of prep work and planning.

Well, it was changed a week before launch. It was changed by seven days. Then Barnes

and Noble, books of million and Christian books all shipped my books on the original launch

date. I had an in-person speaking event with the company had ordered a thousand books

for the event and that was delivered early as well. Splitting all of my numbers between

two weeks, which is pretty much not a great thing for an author because the way you make

the best seller lists is you put all of your books into one week so that you're able to

hit these lists and mine were split between two. Okay, so that happened, which is there's

nothing you can do that was all around shipping issues and supply chain issues, which is

impacting everybody. I know that there's nothing we can do. So you just focus on the things

you can control. I'm not going to lie. It is frustrating, right? I've worked on this

book for two years for eight months. We worked on the launch and it kind of just fell apart

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