Thank You, Thank You, THANK YOU to ALL!!
“No one fails alone and no one succeeds alone.”
This quote from Motivational speaker and critically acclaimed author, Eric Thomas, Ph. D. is especially true for my work over the past 12 months with the writing, creating, and publishing of my children’s picture book, The Adventures of Wembly the Pug: Wembly’s First Day of School.
What allowed me to successfully publish my first book was the result of all the people who helped me along the way. This article is my attempt to thank all of those wonderful people in my support group who helped to launch my book and help make it a #1 Amazon Best Seller in Children’s Dog Books and a #1 New Release in SEVEN separate categories!!
Words cannot express how grateful I am for the following people:
Elvis & Antonella
To my dearest Elvis, my best pug friend! Thank you for being such an inspiration to me. Thank you for all the wonderful years of laughter, cuddling, food begging, slow walking, and love that you gave me. I love you buddy!
To Antonella, my amazing illustrator! Thank you for capturing the essence of Elvis/Wembly in your fantastic art! It has been an honor to team up with you these past many months to create this story together. Your illustrations are amazing, I am so impressed with how you were able to take my story and my vision and make it a reality in your artwork! You are a master at your craft, my friend. Can’t wait for Book TWO to bring us back together for more Wembly adventures!
My Family
To my beautiful fiancé, Natalie Snyder and wonderful (soon-to-be) stepsons, Killian & William Donnellan - Thank you for always encouraging me to pursue this dream and for your honest feedback throughout the entire process. To my lifelong fans & family members, Dad, Roger, Stephen, Michael, Jason, Maria, Jennifer, Aidan, Abby, Kathyrn, Nancy, Kaylee, Jacob & Jordan… A special shoutout to my dearest departed mother whom I miss so much. You all make me a better man and I LOVE YOU!!
Publishing Mastermind Team
To Miriam Laundry & your amazing team at Miriam Laundry Publishing - I truly could not have done this without you! Every step of the way, you held my hand, gave me direction, kept me accountable, and encouraged my success! To Miriam, Kalyna, Lauren, Samantha, Sharon, Samara, Khursheed, & my fellow Publishing Mastermind teammates (Wade, Shelia, Jane, Lis, Sharen, Nancy, Alexandra, & Karen), THANK YOU!
Juice League Friends
Thank you for helping to provide perspective on my story, help with the rhymes, and taking part in the polls I sent out regularly. Tye, Ron, Jerry, Michael, Mike, Scott, Matt, Seth, Ruben, Brett, & Thomas - I love you brothers and am so grateful for your support! Hopefully, next year I can win our fantasy football league along with the success of my book ONE & TWO!
Gong Team (Current & Past)
For all your encouragement, ideas, and responses to my polls, I thank you! You had so much patience with me as every meeting, whether individual or in groups, you were inundated with talk about Wembly the Pug! I apologize (kinda) for subjecting you to all the tales of my book. Nate, Brandy, Bailea, Jane, Roxy, Tim, Andy, Michael, Chelsea, Leah, Jen St, Jen Si, Amy, Danica C, Danica S, Caitlyn, Caitlin, Vanessa, Ellie, Amanda, Bryan, Austin, Danny, Zoya, Daniel, Tyler, Val, Vince, Nehal, Grace, and too many other names to mention, I am so grateful for you!!
Tableau L&D Peeps
Each month I look forward to our connection and calls together to stay in touch. Thank you for always being so supportive of my dream to write this book and for allowing me the space to share my experience with you. Emily, Natalia, Mary, Sara, Sarah, Eric, Mackie, & Lindsay, I am so lucky to have you as friends and supporters! Can’t wait for our next call!
Freedom Personal Development
My personal development journey, my focus on how to properly set goals and really accomplish them can be traced, in many ways, to my time working at FPD! Eric, Tom, Roger, Leah, Jana, Alan, Peggy, Michelle, Jeff C, Cheri, Joseph, Anthony, Bonnie, Shannon, Rebecca, Elle, Jefferey, Kelly, Brian, and others… I love you all! Thank you for the laughter, learning, & love over the past many years! Thank you for giving me a chance to work with you all so many years ago!
Jack Canfield Family
In 2008, I met many of you during the amazing week at Breakthrough to Success seminar and shared the goal of writing a best selling book!! Well, it happened and so many of you are part this success as being such great support over the past many years. So, to Taylor, Katja, Federica, Tiffany, Alice, Jesse, Bert, Andrea, Lisa, Patty, Ed, Kelly, Scott, Shawn, Nina, Kimberly, Vince, Jan F, Betsy, Martin, Kristi S, Kristi D, April, Mary, Sherry, Miro, Heidi, Gloria, Romeo, Robert, Jana, Lincoln, and so many others… THANK YOU!!!
Ambassadors of Wembly the Pug
To all of you, too many names to mention, THANK YOU for sharing my story with your friends, liking all my social media posts, purchasing & reviewing my book, and all the wonderful encouragement you gave me over the past many months!! You helped make Wembly’s First Day of School a best seller!!
You, Yes YOU!! The Person Reading this Pupdate…
You should be thanked as well for taking the time and energy to read this article. THANK YOU in advance for the support that you gave and will give me in the coming weeks, months, and years!!
THANK YOU ALL!!!