The gift of trauma?

Three years ago, I had a conversation with Dr. Edith Shiro. She wanted to write a book about post traumatic growth and she needed the book out, like, yesterday. The pandemic had just begun and she could see what was about to happen to the world. Trauma was going to...

When you have to go back and try again…

Mozella Ademiluyi understands failure, resilience, and hard-won success. Her inspirational book, Rise!: Lean Within Your Inner Power & Wisdom, documents her thwarted attempt to summit Kilimanjaro at the age of 50, which led to her standing atop Africa’s...

Seated at the soda fountain

In 2018, Vicki Suiter published  The Profit Bleed: How Managing Margin Can Save Your Contracting Business. Since then, she’s consistently earned hundreds of dollars each quarter with her book, not counting the impressive income she brings in from her related...

A symptom of the hustle culture?

Catherine Rolt, author of The Pain Paradox, has a huge mission, which was the driving force behind writing her book. She believes that pain is our friend and is trying to teach us something that we’ve likely been avoiding. Ignoring unpleasant events,...

The minute you see just how random you are

I don’t know about you but I think I’m pretty strategic. Like, I’ve got a clear-ish vision of where I want to go, a fairly good idea of what I have to accomplish now and in the next….oh, three or four minutes… Then I have a conversation...

When do you call it quits?

🌟What happens when the agent with whom you have a relationship turns down your first proposal AND tells you your credibility is in question? If you’re Dayna Abraham, you keep going. You write a new proposal that gets you a 6-figure book deal AND you write the...