Category: Author Tips
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How is working w/ my team different from a publishing company?
How is working with my team different from a traditional publishing company? FEATURES TRADITIONAL PUBLISHING THE PROSPEROUS WRITER PACKAGE Book Royalties 6-10% 40-70% Give up the rights to your book? Yes HECK NO! Time it takes to publish At Least 6 months 3-4 months Guaranteed Amazon Bestseller No Oh yeah! Establishing your brand as an…
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What Breaks My Heart
McDonalds not serving breakfast all day and straws causing premature lip wrinkles are two things that kind of break my heart..The thing that REALLY breaks my heart though is this:The writers who could write the most healing and helpful books in the world often come from some sort of religious background AND.With this type of…
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Don’t Make Your Book a Booty Call
Don’t make your book a booty call. . Don’t be texting it, ‘U up?’, at 11pm. . Don’t only show up when you wanna get some. . When you say, “I can only write when I feel it.” . Or, “I can only write when inspiration strikes”., you are making your book *solely* about your…
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What is a Spiritually-Attuned Go-Getter?
Is everything really spiritual? Can we even categorize some things as ‘secular’ and others as ‘sacred’? Are some books more spiritual than others? Are some people more (or less) spiritual than others? How can this even be measured?.This question comes up a lot when folks see that I help spiritually-attuned go-getters write, market, and sell…
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How Writing a Book Births a Breakthrough
I’ve been in love with labyrinths since I was 14. My sister and I got to travel to the Chartres cathedral (this pic) and I learned of ole’ french monks who would sometimes crawl it in their spiritual searching..Perhaps I loved them because they allowed my high-energy self to move while I pray, or because…
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Perfectionism: What is it really?
Something that slows down every writer is something we call ‘perfectionism’. “Ideally, I’d like to get it done quicker, but I’m just a perfectionist.” I used to say. I would then await my pat on the back for having higher standards than others in the room. 😉 Maybe even in my imagination, this humblebrag would…
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The Momentum of Failure
Garrett and I met while sparring in a martial arts class. Yep, sweaty, no make-up, and with lots of flirty apologies after I wouldHip-throw him onto the mat (or vice versa). This is him earning his black belt in hapkido. In hapkido, you’re trained to use the momentum ofYour opponent’s kicks and punches to defend…
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4 Questions That Reveal Which Idea to Chase First
If you are feeling overwhelmed by all of the ideas that you want to create, then let’s hang out for the next 30 minutes in the above video. So many content creators that I coach in either their creative strategies or their marketing efforts struggle with this as well. In this video, we unpack what’s…
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Watch Me Get a Tattoo & Share on Book
As, ‘I Am My Own Sanctuary: How A Recovering Holy-Roller Found Healing and Power’, dropped on Dec. 6th, my goal was to include as many of my fellow spiritually-attuned go-getters as possible in the fun. We did this through two FacebookLIVE events. My Top-tier friend, Lindsay Wilke moderated an Author Q&A where we took your…
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Meg’s Top 5 Tips for Writing a Book
Do you have a book idea that you actually want to complete?😃 Maybe an idea that has been on your heart for the longest time, and you are finally ready to go for it? Then seek no further than my five top tips. These five carried me through my first book and they are currently carrying me…