Today I received the best birthday gift, albeit a day before my birthday,
my very first Royalty payment for my book. What a rush! I am so grateful
to all the lovely people who purchased my novel. It's a small sum but that doesn't matter, I didn't write it to make money; what matters is that I made my dream come true after so many years and so many rejections.
Simplicity is the removal of the useless and the unnecessary--source unknown