{"id":48364,"date":"2023-07-12T19:31:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T02:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/?p=48364"},"modified":"2023-07-12T19:32:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T02:32:32","slug":"the-release-of-the-repossessed-ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/?p=48364","title":{"rendered":"The Release of The Repossessed Ghost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today was the day!  We did it!  We&#8217;re here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steven Radecki, managing editor of Water Dragon Publishing and Paper Angel Press, the one that thought my story was worth taking a chance on, congratulated me first.  Actually, he reminded me yesterday that the release date was coming, which prompted me to post to Twitter and Facebook and other places.  Only 9 words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/briancebuhl\/status\/1678900046052610049\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My friends and family began celebrating with me on Facebook first.  Today, Twitter discovered the post I just embedded, and the writing community has been congratulating me all day.  I&#8217;m ecstatic!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I heard from a couple of people that the books I mailed out on Monday have already arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/waterdragonpublishing.com\/2023\/07\/new-book-release-the-repossessed-ghost-by-brian-c-e-buhl\/?fbclid=IwAR335FG5fX0R3jSPyuifrEcLQp57M5F30gliAa1WhiSrE5LsoPJ4Iq45aF4\">Water Dragon posted the release annuoncement<\/a> and I shared the link on Facebook.  Several friends shared the link as well, and people I&#8217;ve never seen or met have been replying, &#8220;Wow, that&#8217;s awesome!  I need to read this book!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then there was this tweet, unprompted but wholly appreciated:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;m currently reading The Repossessed Ghost and I&#39;m absolutely LOVING it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qyzYzD5FIG\">https:\/\/t.co\/qyzYzD5FIG<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sean R. Frazier, ORDER THE LAST AVAILABLE (@TheCleftonTwain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheCleftonTwain\/status\/1679283640671297536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult to describe how this feels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Baycon, I went into the weekend with the attitude that I was just going to treat the event like a party.  I knew I had a signing and a reading, and I was looking forward to being on panels, but I figured that I needed to keep my expectations in check, because I&#8217;m an unknown quantity.  I believe in my writing, and I think <em>The Repossessed Ghost<\/em> is great, but why should anyone else that hasn&#8217;t read my work think anything of me or my fun little story?  I expected the signing to be quiet time, and I figured the rest of the time at the convention would be me blending in and smiling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, people I&#8217;ve never met took interest in my book.  Most of the book purchases have come from people that have known me for a while, but there were some strangers that bought my book and brought it to me to sign.  That feeling can best be described as a mixture of surprise, gratitude, and exhilaration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been feeling today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steven asked me yesterday, regarding today&#8217;s official book release, &#8220;Kind of anticlimactic since it was already pretty much launched at Baycon?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not anticlimactic at all!  I&#8217;m grateful.  I&#8217;m hopeful.  I feel celebrated.  I feel alive, like I&#8217;m doing what I was always meant to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I should publish books more often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/water-dragon-publishing.square.site\/product\/the-repossessed-ghost\/273?cs=true&amp;cst=custom\">purchase link<\/a> directly to the publisher.  I <em>think<\/em> I&#8217;m still signing books that are purchased through that link.  I will need to talk to Steven about it, as it means the books have to be shipped twice: first to me for signing, then on to the reader.  I think Water Dragon gets a better deal when the books are purchased directly from them, but I don&#8217;t know how much that matters, and I understand that people have been waiting for the Amazon links to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Repossessed-Ghost-Brian-C-Buhl-ebook\/dp\/B0C7TWWSXW?ref_=ast_author_dp\">Amazon link<\/a>.  That&#8217;s a good place to leave reviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/177184123-the-repossessed-ghost?ac=1\">GoodReads link<\/a>.  This is also a good place to leave reviews, I think.  I only just got setup on Goodreads.  If you&#8217;re there already, send me a friend request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you again to everyone that helped me get to this point.  Some of you have had to put up with a lot from me.  Some of you have kept me grounded.  Some of you have provided encouragement, which I have relied upon and needed throughout this journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if somehow you have discovered this page for the first time and we are strangers: thank you coming by.  I hope you enjoy my book!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the day! We did it! We&#8217;re here! Steven Radecki, managing editor of Water Dragon Publishing and Paper Angel Press, the one that thought my story was worth taking a chance on, congratulated me first. 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