Interview With Author Lindsey Blick
Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
This is my first book. I had kind of a rough childhood. My mom jumped off a bridge when I was 15 and then I ran away from home. I’ve had over 100 jobs, I couldn’t get access to the care or resources I needed in many ways, and our society’s conventional systems failed both myself and my family numerous times. I started the Moneyless Society website and movement ten years ago to explore alternative economic systems and ways of life.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The book is titled Moneyless Society: The Next Economic Evolution. It was inspired by Jacque Fresco/The Venus Project, Peter Joseph, and many other people and organizations working to create new social systems and structures for a better, more sustainable world.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not really. Unless it’s unusual for it to take 5 years to write a book, two and a half of which were an editor tearing it apart and helping me rewrite it.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Peter Joseph/The New Human Rights Movement, Jacque Fresco, Noam Chomsky, Murray Bookchin, Buckminster Fuller, Yanis Varoufakis, Karl Marx, Hadas Their, Bhaskar Sunkura, Daniel Pinchbeck.
What are you working on now?
Creating a series of articles and videos to help clarify and promote many of the ideas and topics in the book. Also starting a regenerative farm, a home-mycology project, and releasing a song.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
The best website is my website you can find at the link below.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Plan on it taking a lot longer and being a lot more work than you think it will be, but don’t let that stop you from starting, or from writing every day. Consistency is key. Large projects get done one day and one step at a time. Sometimes they seem like they will never end. But they do.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Don’t take things personally. Everybody has their own story and their own reasons for everything they do. It’s not about you, it’s about them. Our job is to respond to everything we experience with love and understanding as often as we can, because this is all fleeting, and love is all that really matters in the end.
What are you reading now?
Dare to Lead by Renee Brown, Primal Body Primal Mind by Nora Gedgaudas, and Breath by James Nestor
What’s next for you as a writer?
Lots of articles and videos for now, then likely another book in a year or two. The topic is still undecided. Possibly on human potential and regeneration, community, and cooperation.
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?
The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
Karl Marx, Capital
Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
Man’s Search For Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
Author Websites and Profiles
Lindsey Blick Author Profile on Smashwords
Lindsey Blick’s Social Media Links