Chocolate. Karaoke. Star Trek. Travel. Puppies. These are some of my favourite things. But my most favourite are stories.
Stories entered my DNA as a kid. They were what saved me from lonely lunched with no friends when my family moved states and I was shoved into a new school mid-year, mid-puberty, mid-awkward-phase. They allowed me to escape to another world of adventure, of empathy, perspective, and heroes who strived against the bullies, and again and again, picked themselves. Stories showed me how to adapt, to care, to trust myself. They understood me on a level I barely understood myself. I was such a voracious reader I started writing my own books when I was 12 because my favourite authors just couldn’t keep up.
Stories were how I survived boredom. Boredom was how I ended up a Star Trek nerd. Every afternoon when I got home from school, my mother commandeered the TV to fuel her Star Trek addiction. The choice was be bored or be obsessed. You could say I was brain-washed a Trekkie and I have no regrets! That’s the only reason I can think of for how I ended up choosing to study Astrophysics. Two years in and something happened that I never in a million years expected. I hated it.
What I didn’t realise at the time was the reason I was so drawn to Star Trek wasn’t the science, it was the adventure. I want to create stories that connected people. Fictional preferably, with a hint of magic, a dash of quirky, and a sneaky side of truth.
It was when I took the conscious decision to step off the beaten path that things changed for me. In creating my own opportunities, I made a place where I belonged, and where thousands of others realised they belonged.
The success that I've had is due largely to the power of story. Of how stories allow you to be understood for you, and to connect beyond yourself. I’ve won awards, presented hundreds of hours of storytelling workshops internationally, published 6 books, edited and/or published dozens of authors, I am a global entrepreneur of an app that helps you explore and connect to a city and the stories of its people, and I’m part of a 6 person team that brands a handful of high-flying femmpreneurs every year.
So I say to you pick yourself, don’t wait for others to pick you. But also pick doing it together, rather than doing it alone.
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There is no use kicking and screaming like a 2 year old in the throes of a marathon tantrum – the e-book revolution is here to stay, for better or worse.
While every author's ultimate dream is to sniff the glue binding of the crisp, off-white pages of their first glossy masterpiece, the reality is that most of us will never write a book that exactly fits a publisher's idea of a mainstream, marketable novel. However, with almost nine million searches per month for 'e-books' on Google and 2.5 million searches for 'free e-books', we would be out of our minds not to capitalise on this digitisation of our industry.
E-book Revolution: The Ultimate Guide To E-book Success demonstrates how to take those critical first steps to e-book success and choose the right e-book model and promotion style for you. It covers everything you need to know about the e-book revolution, readying and formatting your manuscript for sale, and marketing your work to the world. Learn innovative ways to make your e-book unique, how to boost author sales, connect with your readers so they beg for more and promote your work without paying a cent in advertising. Discover the hidden truth behind why publishers reject perfectly good manuscripts.
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Título : E-book Revolution: The Ultimate Guide To E-Book Success
EAN : 9780987500601
Editorial : Craven Publishing
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