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July 23, 2020
Dare to Decide Book Release Party
It’s here. Dare to Decide: Discovering Peace, Clarity and Courage at Life’s Crossroads is live and on its way to homes. Though it felt like a scramble pulling all details together for the book release, transforming my living room a little, sweating some tech surprises, and wondering who I might have forgotten to invite… …the […]
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June 26, 2020
Book Cover Reveal – And Why This is the ONE
As I edited the last drafts of Dare to Decide and started to envision what the book cover would look like, I landed on one thing: a simple white background with a succulent. I could have chosen from many images that represent concepts and metaphors in the book: A crossroads. A signpost. A compass. A […]
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April 4, 2020
What Makes a Good Book ‘Good’? (One Author’s Vulnerable Journey)
As an introverted teen who would rather read a book than go to a party, I might have described what makes a good book ‘good’ as “a book I can’t put down and finish within 24 hours”.
In March 2020, when the pandemic shut the world down, I was delighted the new novel I had ordered arrived on my doorstep just in time. I devoured The Threshing in the first 24 hours of q...
How This Sci-Fi Novel Helped Writers With Their Dream
This book launch coach gets vulnerable to explore new territory and impacts hundreds of writers. Tim Grahl describes his first novel, The Threshing as The Matrix meets The Hunger Games. For any fans of either book or movie, that would be incentive enough. However, when I have a precious time and focus available to immerse […]
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March 4, 2020
How Big Dreamers and Non-Dreamers Get Along
Would you consider yourself a big dreamer or a non-dreamer? Of course, there are more nuances to people than how we dream about our future. However, how you interact with someone’s style of ideation and implementation matters. Understanding what dreamers and non-dreamers value and how they express it can have a huge impact on your […]
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February 1, 2020
November 16, 2019
Memoir Structure Readers Love: Your ‘Year Of’ Journey
Memoirs can be some of the easiest and trickiest books to write. Easy, because, if you’re going to follow the adage “write what you know”, what are you more familiar with than your own life? Tricky in that, just because you want to write your story doesn’t mean people will automatically want to read it. Unless you’re famous (or infamous), what will prompt someone to devour one will be stellar storytelling, an interesting premise or a heart-...
