Hey Reader,,

There's no shortage of advice for authors.

Facebook groups, Reddit threads, YouTube videos. In fact, information about publishing is everywhere, it's free, and a lot of it sounds pretty reasonable. Sometimes it all sounds reasonable. Maybe too reasonable?

Not only that, but there's also no shortage of people promising you that if you "just do this one thing" or "do it this exact way" or spend money to just "use FB or Amazon ads" or "let me show you exactly how I did it" you'll make gobs of money, be a bestseller, and have an avid fanbase.

And yet most authors I talk to are still confused about what to prioritize. Still second-guessing their decisions. Still watching months go by without the clarity or progress they were hoping for. Still not suddenly wealthy and famous.

Instead, they're exhausted, disenchanted, and realizing that there's no magic ticket, there's no gold rush, and no easy button for publishing. 🙁

There's just hard work.

Here's what I've figured out after 20+ years in this industry: sometimes the advice is the problem. Sometimes the source is the problem.

But one thing is always the problem:

No advice is going to be one-size-fits-all for every author.

You, your life, your capabilities, your book...each one of you is different from the other. So while you're reading a firehose of information and being promised alllll your dreams will come true, it's almost always directed at the masses, not you as the individual.

Most of the people handing out information and promises don't know your genre. They don't know your goals. They don't know you.

Some of them are working from outdated information, or their own agenda, or both.

And when you get six different answers to the same question, you don't get any sort of helpful clarity, you get noise, and eventually overwhelm and paralysis.

This is exactly why I built The Acknowledgments the way I did. Not a giant community where your questions get buried. Not a community where people don't even recognize your name. Not a firehose of content that adds to the overwhelm.

What we are is a small, intentional space where everyone in the group knows you, knows what you need and what you like (and what you hate) and you get real answers (and genuine encouragement and support) that actually fit your situation, not only from your peers but also from someone who knows this industry and knows your goals, and from authors who are doing and succeeding (that's me!)

If this sounds like something you've been looking for--a community where you belong, then I hope you'll join us.

If you have questions about The Acknowledgments, you can reply to this email, hit us up via the chat on the sales page, or book a quick call via Zoom or Voxer here!​

~Angela

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