Let’s face it, we all want to change the world in one way or another. I thought my goal for my little book was to sell enough to make it pay for itself. Not for my time, but for the money I had to put into it in order to publish it. Well, it has just about done that.
So it is time to start thinking about my other goals. What do I want out of this book? Well, I want people to read it and say, “Wow, gay people are just like the rest of us?” I want them to say, “Being transsexual really *isn’t* that weird.” I want them to come away from my little book saying, “I wouldn’t mind hanging out with those characters… even if they are (whatever).”
I guess, I want my little book to change people’s minds. I want the people who read it to walk away from it a little more tolerant, a little more accepting. I want people to feel good about what they read. Or I want them to feel bad for having been intolerant before they read it.
Is that really so much to ask?
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Enough-ebook/dp/B008GVR7BK/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1341539691&sr=1-1
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Beth Burnett may not like to wear pants, but she wears an awful lot of hats. The Director of Education for GCLS, Beth also teaches for the writing academy, gives women’s empowerment workshops, runs a Lansing women’s networking group, teaches as an adjunct professor for Southern New Hampshire University, and works for the state library of Michigan. Because she enjoys torture, Beth just returned to grad school for her second Masters, this time in Marketing and New Media. In addition to her penchant for education, both as a teacher and a student, Beth is a writer with four published books and stories in several recent anthologies. She has won two Rainbow Awards, but her claim to fame is writing all her books with a twenty-pound cat on her forearms. In her spare time, Beth sleeps in thirteen-minute increments, walks her geriatric dog, and has video cooking dates with her long-distance partner. Her fifth book, Coming Around Again, is set for release in fall of 2018.
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