Houston, We Do Not Have a Problem at All.

Jun 25

Parenting Unpacked has reached the United States. 🇺🇸

I am going to be transparent about the numbers because this is the Marketing Underdog and transparency is the whole point. IngramSpark runs on a delay. Their reports arrive when they feel like it, which is apparently not immediately and not on launch day and not when you are refreshing the dashboard every four minutes. I have learned this the hard way.

But here is what I can see right now.

Three copies. In the United States. On day one.

There was no campaign, no ad budget, no influencer holding a yellow book in front of a ring light. Just a blog, a demarketing strategy, fifteen Instagram followers, and apparently three people in America who found Parenting Unpacked and forced a printing press somewhere to turn on.

Houston, we do not have a problem at all.

Actually we have the opposite of a problem. We have the United Kingdom. We have Mexico. We have the United States. We have been live for less than forty eight hours and Parenting Unpacked has already crossed three borders without being asked to.

I will have the full picture when IngramSpark decides the moment is right. Until then I am sitting here slightly stunned, extremely grateful, and watching the dashboard like it owes me something.

It kind of does.

More soon.

Jessica Gabrielzyk

Jessica Gabrielzyk

Jessica Gabrielzyk is a Brazilian writer living in Switzerland. She moved there with her husband and daughter, who was three months old at the time and had strong opinions about the whole thing even then.

She writes about change.

The visible kind and the kind that happens inside a person, while everything on the outside looks fine.

Her first book, Maternity Abroad, explored what it means to become a mother far from the system you trusted. It has reached readers in more than fifteen countries across five continents. Parenting Unpacked, her second book, follows the experience of parenting through major life disruption, whether that's an international move, a career loss, a new baby, or a life that simply stops responding the way it used to. My First American Coloring Book was created to help toddlers engage with daily life in the United States through play and familiar imagery.

She is a member of SIETAR, the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research, and the International Academy of Brazilian Literature.

She writes for the parent who is still inside it, getting through the day, and wondering somewhere underneath all of it who they are becoming.

When she is not writing, she is walking forty minutes uphill with a stroller, telling herself the exercise is the point.

Houston, We Do Not Have a Problem at All.

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