# I Don't Talk About My Book Enough

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Podcast: [The Nuance Diaries](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-nuance-diaries-7119430)
Published: 2026-05-30T18:17:12+00:00
Episode link: https://thenuancediaries.substack.com/p/i-dont-talk-about-my-book-enough
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Less than 0.1% of the global population will ever write a book. Not publish — write. Someone told me that statistic recently, at an event where I talked about my book. Around 0.0086% are published authors. Over 50% of U.S. writers are women, which is major, major progress. And when we filter by Black women? We make up 4% to 7% of published authors in America. Regardless of the exact stats, which are changing all the time and differ based on where you collect them — I’m in very rare company as a published author. And a self-published author at that. You know what’s wild, though? As I went to type ‘self-published’, what I first wrote was ‘selfish.’ And I can’t blame that on autocorrect. That was 100% my subconscious at work. Selfish. It’s a word that’s been viewed as ‘dirty’ and very much weaponized as an insult. It makes my skin crawl a little, as a recovering people pleaser. We’re all selfish to some extent, though, aren’t we? Or shouldn’t we be? I deserve to be proud of my book. I deserve to talk about my book without making excuses about what I would’ve done differently. It’s not about the number of copies I’ve sold or the money I’ve made. There is a book with my name on it, sitting on people’s bookshelves. A book I rarely talk about. People have said such beautiful, kind things about my book, The Start Of It All. Many people read it in a day. Someone in their seventies even loved it. Imagine that, a 70-something loving a book that I wrote for 20-somethings. And yet — I don’t really talk about it. Ever. I wrote it, published it, posted about it a few times, sold a hundred or so copies, and then…just stopped. It’s not intentional. I’m not trying to hide my book. Or maybe I am, subconsciously? The Start of It All is a book full of questions designed to help you get to…

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