Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Thanks for asking! Everything I write is about creating healthy vibrancy, reaching your ideal natural weight without starving yourself, and eating all the foods you love. One of my favorite tools for transformation is journaling, so it is no surprise that I’ve written FIVE journals!!!! I also have a book on manifesting health and happiness!
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Kitchen Magic: Simple Recipes & Rituals to Manifest Health & Happiness
I actually wrote this book in a spell of inspiration while on a writing retreat at the beautiful, magical Mesa Refuge in Point Reyes Station. It just came out of me during my two weeks there! It based on everything I know and live when it comes to healthy, natural, joyous living!
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t know that I have any unusual habits. I have terrible posture while I write! That’s unfortunate, because I tend to take very good care of my body at most other times. I do tend to write in spells. I’ll think about an idea for a long time, maybe take a few notes, and then – BOOM – it will start to pour out of me!
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I love Michael Pollan! He has also written at Mesa Refuge, by the way. I read a lot of non-fiction; I’ve read everything by Mary Sheedy-Kurcinka, if you are looking for parenting books! I also have a degree in poetry and love e. e. cummings, Rumi, and Marianne Moore to name a few.
What are you working on now?
Which one? I have a list of at least a dozen, but the two coming along the farthest are Too Busy to Cook: The Ambitious Person’s Meal Planning and Prep Guide to Eat Twice as Healthy in Half the Time…Without Adding Anything to Your To-Do List and Weight Loss Mindset: Transform Your Weight Loss Program with Expert Advice from Trainers and Coaches to Motivate and Lose Weight Without a Diet.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I actually do a lot of one on one emailing. I keep in touch really well and have a lot of friends from the span of my life, so I always tell them about what is going on. I also have had good returns by sharing to my email list, via Facebook posts, and with ads on Amazon.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Find someone who “gets you” who will always read what you write and offer feedback and post reviews when you need them! It’s surprisingly hard to get people to follow through!
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Good or bad, it’s all a phase. That was actually parenting advice someone gave to me, but I think it applies to writing, publishing, and life in general. Also, get plenty of sleep. That will make you better at everything.
What are you reading now?
Non-fiction: Broken Open, Persephone Rising, Buddhism for Mothers of Young Kids, Joyful, and Factfulness, though that one has been put on the back burner a bit. I only read on fiction at a time, right now I’m actually listening to Squirm.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Wow. That’s a good question. As an independent author, I want to find a high level editor and book formatter to hire. I have some awesome people I work with, but not in that category.
I’d also love to gain an established readership so that I get scooped by a large publishing house with major leverage to negotiate an awesome deal for myself! Actually, truth be told, if I was going to negotiate, I’d bring my husband with me as my representative! I hate confrontation!
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
Well, I’d probably bring the most comprehensive desert island survival guides I could find. But if you mean for entertainment, I’d just get the biggest compilations I could find, hoping for a combination of inspiring, hopeful, entertaining, and engaging.
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