I'm sure there's more marketing I should be doing right now, even though the manuscript is in "peer review." I picked up a book at a garage sale today, called "Your Marketing Sucks." What a great title! Can't wait to look through it. 

I've written the book "from the inside out" as much as I could, and the marketing process will be no different, I'm sure, because I live my whole life from the inside out as much as possible. By which I mean, I do things when I feel drawn to doing them, and rarely because I'm forcing myself. 

But what's been really evident this week is "gotta write" -- that I've got to get back to working on More on the Four (see the Future Titles page) so that I'm working on a book. It really seems that I've got to be working on a book, even if I'm not working on it every second I mean. I've got to have a long-term project I'm working on, or something just feels empty inside. It's a different kind of "empty nest" syndrome, I think, where it's not that I'm living in an empty nest so much as I *am* an empty nest. I've got to be chewing on something -- maybe that's why clenching my teeth has been a worry the past few weeks. 

The reason I'm including the "gotta write" in what I need to get the shame off is that some part of thinks I should be focusing exclusively on marketing "Shameless" and not spending time working on the next book. But the truth for right now seems to be that I've got to have a book I'm working on, in the background so to speak -- as a sort of backdrop against which I do everything else. 

If you're wondering why I haven't posted anything about the test marketing project yet, it's because I've got to come up with a new subtitle to go along with each new title idea, and that's proving to be more difficult than I thought it would be. Sometime this week, though.