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Client Case Study: Chenae Carey
Chenae and I coworked on our respective books. My own guide to self-publishing Destination Author came out a matter of months before Chenae’s book Is Your Business A Prison? and it was so special to celebrate together. Chenae also took a very different path to most of my clients.
Read MoreClient Case Study: Alma Barrero
Alma Barrero is an intuitive style and empowerment coach, former corporate executive, wife and mother. As a pioneer in blending style and soul work, Alma believes in the undeniable relationship between our unlimited power and dressing to honour our true light.
Read MoreClient Case Study: Rajni Raman
Rajni Raman is an immigrant to the US from India who married her college sweetheart after graduation and moved across the world, leaving behind her family and friends for the promise of a life in America. In this interview, Rajni delves into how she not only made her way through to success, but went on to write her incredible story of overcoming.
Read MoreClient Case Study: Tiffany Manchester
Tiffany Manchester is a new adult fiction author who writes coming of age stories inspired by her world travels and personal journey. Both her debut book Surfacing and second book Pack Light, Travel Light, Be the Light take readers through the highs and lows of relationships as her relatable main characters confront their demons and transform their lives.
Read MoreClient Case Study: Rachel Zinman
Rachel Zinman found out she had type 1 diabetes in 2008, but it took six years to accept her diagnosis. Fortunately, she had discovered yoga in high school and has taught yoga in internationally since 1992, so she turned to yoga to find ways to heal her diabetes and inspire others.
Read MoreClient Case Study: Louise Carron Harris
Louise Carron Harris is a contemporary medicine woman, healer, shaman, mystic, mentor, teacher and eternal student. She’s also a radio presenter, storyteller and lover of all things talking, dancing, playing loud music and raising the vibration of everyone she meets!
Read MoreClient Case Study: Dr Keira Barr
Dr. Keira Barr is a prominent leader in women’s medicine – creating a bridge between hormones, skin and mind-body medicine to optimize women’s mid-life experience. A fierce patient advocate, Dr. Barr empowers women worldwide to take control of their health and their hormones in menopause.
Read MoreClient Case Study: Lorraine Hamilton
Lorraine Hamilton is a purple-haired engineer-turned-executive-coach, author and international speaker. She’s on a mission to help unfulfilled high-achievers redefine success and become legendary leaders of their life without completely starting over.
Read MoreClient Case Study: Melanie Moberg
Melanie Moberg is a codependency coach, helping her clients navigate the difficulties of loving someone suffering from mental health or addiction issues, often at the cost of their own wellbeing. Melanie has an array of experience and earned her MA in addiction counselling, using that knowledge to advocate for mental health and addiction recovery every day.
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What’s Your Story?
Story is a human need. It’s how generations pass down their wisdom. It’s how cultures can translate. It’s how nations find commonality and realise they can be allies not enemies. It’s how individuals relate and know they are not alone, outsiders, outcasts.
Read MoreWhat Problem Does Your Book Solve?
The friend who girlfriends come to as a shoulder to cry on because not only do you make them feel better about what’s going on for them but they walk away with a solution to their problem, an antidote for their heartbreak?
You, my friend, are the perfect author.
Read MoreWho Is Your Book For?
Imagine for a sec that your book is a piece of communication. You have some info and you want to share it. That’s communicating, right?
Read MoreIf Your Non-Fiction Book Doesn’t Solve a Problem, There’s No Point Writing It
“At the centre of every book is this formula: ask a question; go on an exploration to find an answer; find an answer; and from that answer, ask a new question” ~ Mattie Bamman
Read MoreWhy Do You Need To Write This Book Right Now?
Your book has a soul. It’s an entity in its own right. And connecting into what it is and what it’s not is essential to writing a convincing book that takes off and takes on a life of its own.
Read MoreEditing As A Creative Experience
I’ve long known that what I do day-to-day is creative. But honestly, I didn’t think anyone else realised that. Because of the old cliché that I hear all the time.
Editors are all about fixing your grammar, right?
Ugh.
All Words Are Not Created Equal
Some words say more than others. Some words evoke more than others.
Whereas some words dumb down or generalise, others conjure visions so detailed that a mere utterance doesn’t do justice to the insight you gain.
We Are All The Famous Author On The $1 Table
Wayne Dyer.
Bill Bryson.
Deepak Chopra.
Caroline Myss.
AA Gill.
What do these famous authors have in common?
Multiple titles, sure.
Substantial books sales, check.
Earning money from their writing, undoubtedly.
But the one thing you might not realise they have in common is not so much an element of their incredible success, but rather a decaying element of it.