Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Spirituality for Badasses is my second book. The first was written ten years ago. I’ve had multiple false starts on a second book over the years. I’d write a chapter or two and then resign it to the dust bin. Spirituality for Badasses came about after a frustrating attempt to make a more conventional version of my work fly. It didn’t fly. It flopped. So, in frustration, I said fuck it, and wrote the first few chapters of Spirituality for Badasses in one sitting. I gave those chapters away for free and it immediately flew.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Spirituality for Badasses is a non-religious approach to discovering the spectrum of awareness, told through the POV of the author while accompanying you, the reader through a series of adventure travel destinations and experiences. There are numerous how-to exercises. There is cursing. There is humor. There are sobering opinions offered about honesty, shadow, ego, mind, depression and many of the typical obstacles that prevent us from discovering our genuine, unique “spiritual badass” natures.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No. I’ve always had a good handle on creativity. I don’t need a “special time or place” I can pretty much summons the muse on command. I do usually at my desk in my office from 9-5.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Mark Manson, the international best-selling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a FUCK.
Jed McKenna, the underground, niche best-selling author of Enlightenment- The Damnedest Thing.
What are you working on now?
A prompted journal filled with pithy, fun, humorous and wise quotes and some of my original artwork.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
facebook ads- no other social media to date has worked as reliably
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Ever see one of the info-graphics divided into 3 parts- skill, passion and market? …They meet and combine in the center and that’s where your purpose or destiny lies ? If you wish to be a successful non-fiction author, you’d sure as hell need to exactly on-target with your purpose or- you will fail.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“It’ll all work out in the end.”- my Mom
What are you reading now?
The Emerald Mile
What’s next for you as a writer?
Guest on The Joe Rogan Experience. (I hope. My agent has them interested)
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?
Lord of The Rings Trilogy
All of Jed McKenna’s books
Playboy- complete 1987 series.
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