Career Move

I'm currently working on building public interest in, and awareness of, my friend Wendy Hagen's book, Totally Desperate Mom. It is working. In all humility, I must say, I ROCK at this public relations gig! Just by carrying the book around tonight, I had several people flipping through the pages. One was a total stranger. (There are definite advantages to being unintimidating, and having a nice smile and a sweet-as-sugar personality -- just don't ask the friends who really know me about the personality.) So, in my always-working enterpreneurial how-can-I-make-money-with-this mind, I thought of the various ways I could turn this into a money-making venture. This seemed to me a more legit way of making some sweet moolah than charging an entry fee at my house. My concern, though, is, what if someone pays me to write about their book on my blog, and carry their book around, but I think the book STINKS?! What if it's not awesome like Totally Desperate Mom? I can't encourage someone to go waste their time and money on a book I don't like; and if I like a book, OR it is written by a friend of mine (in the case of Totally Desperate Mom, both apply-I like it--a lot--and it was written by a friend of mine), I want to promote and endorse it for free. I faced the same dilemma when I was considering a career in massage therapy. I love to give massages to my friends and help them relax, but I can't take their money. I'd have no problem taking money from strangers, but I don't want to give massages to strangers. I guess it's just my lot in life to do nice things for free . . . or at a loss, which was the case when I left the corporate world to pursue a small home business walking dogs.