Well, it was quasi-success ... this client was one I worked with for the bulk of last year on a very intensive and important County-wide project that will affect thousands of people. I have been out of the loop for some time as they put the finishing touches on things, but she needed some data analysis for her final report. It was rather mind-bending, and I think I hurt myself trying to get it done ... today was supposed to be getting back to working on my mailings but I slept so little and hurt so much I have postponed that and am working on less mentally challenging things.
A couple interesting things of note ...
That blog I posted yesterday, the one with the link, that actually was picked up by a chronic pain magazine / website! And shouted out to thousands of people!!
Also, my Mom met these folks in some county in California neither of us are normally ever in and long story short they ended up on my doorstep here in the boonies of the Florida Keys a few minutes ago ... they read my blog with chronic pain & all (not including yesterday's post) and thought it was great! The daughter is looking to move to Key West so they wanted to pick my brain about KW, chronic pain & more. It was great fun! And they paid me $100!!! I would have talked to them for free, and frankly, I just about wanted to hold them "hostage" out of my dire need for human interaction and real, honest, conversations.

But I let them go with the referral to a particular awesome & unique local restaurant and to get the unique and awesome Key Lime Pie.
So probably good I had a pain flare day today because otherwise I would have had my mind all snarled up in figuring out how to work the autoresponder thingie.

Before I forget, and related to above, I do not WANT to isolate, I do not MEAN to isolate, but I find very few people I can relate to in general, less so with my business ideas / blog / work, and then as we get into where I live and that I have chronic pain, and the particular island I am on, isolation just is the way it is. I can hang around people but unless they are the right people, people I click with, like this father & daughter who just left, it makes me worse. Pain is worse, sense of worthlessness and isolation is worse, depression is worse. Better to be physically alone and have online support wherever I can find it.

My closest friends are world-wide.
Glad Bruce & Hobbs sounds like a great fit! Until I posted yesterday I never knew why I was getting their emails. As far as I can recall, I never signed up for them, but apparently it was to give the information to you!
It sounds like you have a really great plan! You can do it!! Maybe listen to a few of their podcasts, get a feel for how it goes, how long it is, how much time you have to talk, then write up questions they can ask you / Molly, and prepare answers. Maybe make a special offering just for their listeners. You can create a special page just for them to buy your books. Maybe also write up something you can give as a "freebie" so people who hear the blog can at least download that - while providing their email of course - and you can start building your mail list. Then you can send out periodic mailings, blog updates, offers. The money is in the list!
Also don't minimize your sales! Five books is better than none! It's a start! And if you feel like you need to make purchasing from your website more obvious, then do so. In terms of Christmas advertising, nothing wrong with starting with reminders even now. Not a lot, maybe one every few weeks, with more building up as we get closer and closer to Christmas.
Just keep holding that intention! Still blows my mind two people, strangers, showed up at my door, talked to me, and paid me to just chit-chat!!!