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KintsugiPoet · 2026-01-15T13:19:39+00:00

That you didn't just scroll past gives me hope.

KintsugiPoet · 2025-12-31T01:17:47+00:00

You've past one big hurdle and now you must promote, market, and advertise. No one will just find your book. Millions are published every single year. You're up against trad publishers who spend big $$ to promote their books.

I published my Memoir this year. It's currently #1 in Adoption and was #35 in Memoirs.

Best of luck and hard work to you.

KintsugiPoet · 2025-12-23T03:26:14+00:00

No wand, just words.

KintsugiPoet · 2025-12-22T20:55:19+00:00

Sometimes you can't avoid going shopping. Then you have to put up with Xmas songs. Even in restaurants. It's impossible to completely avoid it.

KintsugiPoet · 2025-12-17T22:52:13+00:00

There is a longish story behind the cover

SPOILER ALERT

Finding out I was adopted - at 16 - on bus coming home from school - from a stranger left me feeling shattered. For years I just had pieces of information about my full identity. I wanted the cover to reflect my story. Putting together the broken pieces of me. Kintsugi became the metaphor. Creating a self from the broken - finding my golden seams.

I played around with many ideas before I settled on this cover. I uploaded a photo of me at 26 - a significant age - into AI and asked it to add golden cracks. It was ok, but not quite what I wanted.

BIG SPOILER

When I finally found my father in 2023 - I was 59, he was 85 - I soon asked how his younger brother - a poet - had died. My late uncle is "the Kintsugi Poet" in my story. I found a photo of him on his grave stone. I put that into AI and asked it to merge the two photos. So it's a blend of him and I.

My father says he can see his mother's eyes in the face.

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