Spike Pedersen |
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a Gerber baby, being born in Fremont, Michigan, home of Gerber Baby Foods, but I live in Madison, Wisconsin now. A place described as 77 Square miles surrounded by reality. And yes, my name is Spike.I wanted to be the greatest motorcycle racer in the world until reality set in. After all that, I wrote a piece for a bike magazine and they paid me for it. I was in love with two vixens, writing and greed. I took greed and went into business long enough to meet my creditors and their hate mail.
911 reminded me we are mortal and why the hell am I doing this. I went back to the other vixen and wrote a book. Many times. Same book, just again and again. I learned the craft and get hate mail from my friends now.
That was step one and it was really hard. Now I am digging through the hard layers of rock and dry clay you would call selling the thing. I have one book done, and the next is being dug out right now while I type with one hand.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
At First Light is my first book and… Adventure! But unlike many adventure books where the anti-hero is invincible and out shoots and outwits the entire population, I like adventure books where the protagonist is a person who is thrown into the fire and really struggles to survive. And I’m a pushover for the strong heroine.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I like to write in public places with music blasting in my headphones. I need something to occupy part of my brain so I can be creative.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Jack London and Robert Lewis Stevenson for pure adventure writing, Jim Croce for writing emotion with the use of the written word. Steven King and Eric Jerome Dickey for characters who blossom upon the page so bright you must send them Christmas cards. David Westheimer for pure storytelling chops that is the magic of books. I will stop here before we have to cut down another tree, but the list is long.
Tough cal on the book. I can argue for a half dozen but because you backed me into a corner and held a knife to my throat; Jack London’s The sea Wolf. The protagonist is alone in a world where every person lords over him and he pays the price with pain and frustration, beaufilly displayed with London’s pen. Awash in a ship where he has no skills anong hard men, he flourishes through guts and a great mind. And the will to survive as he dominates all on his pathway of destruction with one of the great antagonists of the written word; London’s Captain Wolf Larson.
What are you working on now?
A piece set in Hawaii, where the ultimate weapon is being debuted while someone is trying to kill it because it is the ultimate weapon. I am tying it to local legend and the scenery is breathtaking. I know, I was captured by the Islands, and I hope to get you too.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Reader sites like this Awesomgang! I have always found readers here.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Work, write, work on it. And write the second and third book. You won’t be a success unless you have inventory to sell.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Work, write, work on it. And write the second and third book. You won’t be a success unless you have inventory to sell.
What are you reading now?
1963 by the King Steven.
Steven King knows how to write a good book.
What’s next for you as a writer?
More books. Really that is all a writer has. If he stops the things in his head put the screws to him.
And a beach somewhere.
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?
I would bring a kindle and a solar cell. and load 1369 books on it before the boat hit that iceberg.
Start with Treasure Island.
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J.Paddy Spaight |
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
You might say I am the Grandma Moses of the literary world. Not that I’m 90 years old, no, I’m 64. I just started out late in life like she did with her art. Currently, I have written one novel.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Shadow’s Prisoners was due to a blog, a cancelled trip to Ireland and my wife’s broken ankle. This deserves a better explanation.
The chance to go to Ireland and meet my relatives, all of whom I had recently heard about, arrived. We prepared and researched for the upcoming trip. After all, this was going to be a dream come true. My relatives in the states and “across the pond” were excited for us.
But suddenly and unexpectedly, my wifes longest and best friend passed away. We jumped ona plane to Ohio, where Billie (my wife) wrote a eulogy that she was to read at her friend’s funeral. Unfortunately, she never reached the pulpit. The poorly lit church masked a tricky step on the way to the altar. Billie fell and ended up in a hospital where she underwent surgery to repair a broken ankle. Afterwards her doctor advised that all long plane trips must be avoided. Ireland was a no-go.
At home I started a blog to keep everyone advised about her changing condition. I even began to journal a fantasy trip to Ireland for my wife’s enjoyment. I figured that if we can’t physically go there now, we can at least go there in our mind. Soon some relatives thought we actually went to Ireland despite the doctor’s orders not to go.
I was feeling proud about my blog, my writing mojo had returned.
“Well, what’s next?” Billie asked me.
“A novel”
The next day I set about writing a novel that I was to finish thirteen months later.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I can’t type worth a lick. So when I was writing Shadow’s Prisoners, I always had a small spiral notepad in my back pocket. Each morning, I added more to the book on the train. Sometimes when the train was stalled between stations, I would fill twenty pages.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Stephen King. The “Tunnel” series by Gordon Roderick.
What are you working on now?
Some of the characters in my last book were extremely interesting. I am writing a spinoff.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
The social network proves invaluable. Facebook is a gem. It is an ideal place to join writing groups. Also I have been checking out YouTube videos about self-publishing and marketing ideas. That is where I discovered this website.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write what you know and not what you think you know. Your life experiences can be invaluable when writing. Also, unless you are lucky, self-publish your work. The traditional route is fast becoming the “only” way to have your book read by a large audience.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Your writing is your legacy, so make it shine.
What are you reading now?
Aside from the questions on this interview, I am reading Let’s Get Digital.
What’s next for you as a writer?
A humorous memoir.
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?
Any four books that I never read.
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Clark Nielsen |
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hi, my name is Clark Nielsen. I’m an American-born author, though my first major book was actually about China. I lived in China (off and on) for two years and wrote a memoir about teaching English there. I’ve also written two other travel-related e-books, two full-length sci-fi/fantasy novels, and four more smaller fantasy e-books.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The last e-book I published was the third and final part of my Hazel Haven fantasy series. Part 1 was inspired by the Japanese anime, Ranma 1/2, while Parts 2 and 3 were more heavily influenced by the show One Piece.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
There’s probably nothing unusual about drinking whiskey and listening to instrumental music while you write. But in those moments when I get major writer’s block, I’ll try taking my laptop to the park and tinkering away until the battery dies.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
David Sedaris and Bill Bryson have been the biggest inspiration when writing my travelogues. As I mentioned earlier, the Hazel Haven series was based on Japanese cartoons. My sci-fi novel, Camping on Other Planets, however, was inspired by Jack Vance’s Planet of Adventure books.
What are you working on now?
I’m actually taking a break from writing to focus on other endeavors. Currently, I’m working on a PC game called Build ‘n Bump. I’m a pretty big gaming nerd, and I do a lot of indie game development in my free time. I guess writing code is still writing, isn’t it?
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Ha! I’m still trying to figure that out… My own blog was great for establishing early interest in my travel books, though.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
There’s no disgrace in self-publishing, but don’t go into it expecting to get rich. Do it, because you love to write. It’s very likely you’ll only make enough money each month to pay off 1-2 utility bills.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“Write more books.” This has been common advice in many author forums I’ve visited. Why waste time fruitlessly trying to advertise yourself when you could be writing your next great novel?
What are you reading now?
I’ve been reading financial books more than anything right now, but I do have a very large back catalog of travel memoirs I’ve been meaning to tackle.
What’s next for you as a writer?
If I see better sales of my sci-fi and fantasy books, I have a few more older stories I’d like to revisit and flesh out. Otherwise, I may hold off on doing any more writing until I have another big overseas adventure to talk about.
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?
Joke books, probably. I’m not really one to read the same novel over and over, and… hey, if I’m going to be stuck on a deserted island, I’ll need something to keep me laughing.
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Dublin Galyean |
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Born in east Texas, I grew up in San Diego, CA until graduation from UCSD in biology. A short stab at an acting career led to performing as a teacher of ESL (English as a Second Language) and then to teaching literature analysis at adult schools, mostly to eager immigrant students. After reading Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones, years of journal writing translated into what would become Bougainvillea Blues. I earned an M.A. in English from CSULA in 2007 for a novella version. I now live in the sprawl of Los Angeles with my wife and an enormous pepper tree.
I have published one book though I started a few others when I thought I couldn’t finish the first one. Two of the other books I started are now coalescing into a third. (See below.) I used to be ashamed to say it took me twenty years to finish it, but I realize now that some people write a few complete books before they get the hang of it. I just kept writing the same book over and over: starting in different places. telling the story from different viewpoints, and adding scenes and characters. I love what I heard about Steinbeck when he was already famous for Of Mice and Men. He had finished his next novel, L’Affaire Lettuceberg and knew it would sell based on his reputation, but decided to destroy it because it wasn’t up to his standards. The next book? The Grapes of Wrath
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Bougainvillea Blues is autobiographical and initially inspired by my relationship with my mother when I was growing up. In the first novella version she is the central character. By the time she died, about ten years after I had started writing it, I was more reconciled to the part she played in my confusing and abusive childhood, so the 12-year-old son in the first version became the narrator of the second. I like to say that one third of the book definitely happened, one third definitely did not happen, and one third might have happened, but I don’t remember. Also, after finishing the book, I now realize how much I was influenced by 60’s rock and roll, even though I had only few albums and never played in a band because I was playing violin in various orchestras during junior high and high school. I had forgotten how much I listened to the radio.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I have written in restaurants or in my parked car. I often write in doctor waiting rooms (when I have an appointment, that is). I would say what might be unusual is my attitude toward writing, not my habits.
I don’t believe in writer’s block. I do believe that anyone can be overwhelmed by the inner voices that say you don’t belong or you’re not good enough or that your lasting writing was pretty good but you’ll never write anything good again. Some may call that writer’s block. I call that giving in to the inner critic that everyone has, whatever the art or the enterprise. The only way I know to counteract that feeling is to write, talk to someone who loves me (it may take a few “someones”), and then write some more.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I began writing fiction on the flyleaf of Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones while on vacation with my wife in Idyllwild, CA. I tried the first writing exercise in that book lying in a hammock in the yard between the motel’s bungalows. When I became an English teacher and because I was trusted by my school administration, I got to choose most of the books in my classes and often picked The Awakening by Kate Chopin and Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. They represent the clarity and organization emotional punch I want to emulate. I enjoyed them all the more because Chopin’s novel was panned for its content by other well-known contemporary novelists of the early twentieth century and Steinbeck always seems to be disrespected because his books are easier to understand and more popular than Faulkner’s.
What are you working on now?
As I mentioned above, when I couldn’t finish Bougainvillea Blues, I began two other books: a memoir called The Confessions of a White Father, about my wife’s and my experience raising adopted our African-American son, and a novel called Joy After Death, in which a couple struggle to survive the death of their only son. In Joy had written over 20 chapters. About halfway through I had them deal with their grief is by adopting a boy who is African American. After a recent writer’s conference the ideas for those two books have morphed into a story that begins with a childless couple adopting an African-American boy. The working title is Ezra and His White People.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I am new at promoting. At first I thought all I had to do was write the book. (See #3 under “advice for new authors.”) I’m hoping Awesome Gang Newsletter will be one of the best methods. I started my marketing by having book signings in the Los Angeles area, not far from where I live, plus one in Reno, NV and another in Ramona, CA. Then I worked with a transitional coach, Pat Pattison (see ten percent rule below in “advice for new writers,”who has lots of experience in marketing. Through a friend I met Christiana Miller, the queen of Indie book promotions, who told me about this newsletter. The ad I have in Awesome Gang is for my first online promotion of the Kindle Version of my book, which is discounted from $4.99 to $1.99, March 25-31, 2015
Do you have any advice for new authors?
1) Find other authors who are supportive, not competitive, and who write regularly.
2) Write no matter what, thirty (fifteen?) min a day when feeling dry.
3) Once you’ve written a book, apply my marketing friend’s ten percent rule: be willing to spend at least 10% of the time you spent writing the book promoting it. It could mean getting an agent and a publishing deal or could mean going Indie like I have so far, though I’m still sending out query letters to agents. Not promoting your book is an insult to your art.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Julia Cameron (of The Artist’s Way) said that most artists (writers) feel that if they had time they could get their work done but have no time to write because of their jobs, children, other family members, and friends taking up their time. No, she says, you can always find time, even if only fifteen minutes here and there. What writers (artists) need is emotional support, those people who can help you see the lies you tell yourself that keep you from writing, like I don’t have enough time or I’m not good enough.
What are you reading now?
The Moving Target by Ross MacDonalds, one of the greatest detective story writers. I admire his wonderfully concise and original descriptions of people and places.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I have just discovered the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and never knew writer’s conferences could be this supportive. So, in addition to finishing my next book, I plan on spending as much time as I can with the likes of them. I recommend them whether you’re trying your hand at a young adult book as I am or doing writing for an older audience.
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?
This is tough because I never know whether I would take favorites or ones I’ve owned for years and always wanted to read but never did. I have held to the axiom that if it’s worth reading it’s worth buying, so I have way more books than I could ever finish in my lifetime. I look at them longingly without taking them off the bookshelf to read. I think I would go with authors I already love but take to the island books of theirs I’ve never read. I’ve read Flannery O’Connor’s short stories, so I would take one of her two novels, probably Wise Blood. I am embarrassed to say that as much as I love Dickens, I’ve read very little of his oeuvre, so I’d take two I’ve never finished, probably Little Dorrit and Bleak House, though I would be tempted to reread Oliver Twist and Great Expectations. Maybe Dennis Potter’s A Ticket to Ride might join them because it is rather bizarre but still mesmerizing. That’s four, but I might jettison one of the two by Dickens for a collection of poetry by Robert Frost, Phillip Larkin or Donald Hall.
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Ian Stewart |
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have wanted to write since I was in my teens. After reading Ernest Hemingway’s books my ambition was to become, like him, a foreign correspondent and author. I achieved my goals – but not quite with the same success as him!
I was born in New Zealand and began my journalism career on The New Zealand Herald. I later worked for The Sydney Morning Herald and the Melbourne Herald before being hired by Reuter, working for the agency in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Indonesia.
I was a foreign correspondent in Asia for 30 years, which included fifteen years reporting for The New York Times with Hong Kong as my base.
I began writing fiction when I was a young journalist in Australia and had two short stories published in a leading magazine. My first success with a novel was The Peking Payoff, which was published in hard cover in 1975 by Macmillan Inc. in New York and in paperback by Hamlyn. Hamlyn subsequently published The Seizing of Singapore, Deadline in Jakarta and An H-Bomb for Alice. In 1988, I self-published Reunion, also a novel.
Following my ten years as a freelance correspondent, from 1991 to 2001, based first in Singapore and then Malaysia, I wrote The Mahathir Legacy, a non-fiction work, which was published in Australia in 2003 by Allen & Unwin.
My epic Asian saga, Nanyang – published as both an Amazon (Kindle) eBook and as a CreateSpace) paperback – reflects my interest in the history of East Asia, where I have spent so much of my adult life, and the emigration of Chinese to South-East Asia, among them the ancestors of my wife Truus The Tiang Nio.
For the eBook see:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006PHIPU4
For the paperback see:
http://www.amazon.com/Nanyang-Mr-Ian-…
I have also more recently published two more books of the action/adventure genre, The Unintentional Jihadi.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008d7EHI7O
and The Lust of Comrade Lu.
http://www.amazon.com/Lust-Comrade-Lu…
ebook/dp/B00IWXP3H2/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
The Unintentional Jihadi is a thriller in a light-hearted vein, which had its gestation in the final years of my time as an Asian correspondent.
The Lust of Comrade Lu is very relevant to current relations between Hong Kong and Beijing.
I have begun republishing some earlier works as eBooks.
The first was Reunion. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008YVLPNI
The second was The Peking Payoff
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009HPE0T6
The latest is The Seizing Of Singapore
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ALQL39K
The Unintentional Jihadi is a thriller in a light-hearted vein, which had its gestation in the final years of my time as an Asian correspondent.
Reunion centers on the threat of war between Indonesia and Australia, which the main protagonist hopes to avert by revealing a secret from his Indonesian past.
In the Peking Payoff, a Hong Kong taipan seeks to secure the British Colony’s future at a meeting with China’s premier unaware of plans to kill the Chinese leader and implicate the magnate with the coerced help of his drug-addicted wife.
I have started on a new novel, which is a marked shift in setting from my earlier Asia-oriented (no pun intended) works. The period is the 1930s in New Zealand, which provides an opportunity for me to incorporate memories of my childhood.
For further information about me see my blog: http://iangstewart.typepad.com/my_weblog/
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Lust of Comrade Lu is the first time I have revisited HongKong-China relations since The Peking Payoff (see above).
I decided it was time to do so because relations between them have become tense with increasing indications Beijing wishes to withdraw the special privileges it was given when the British colony was returned to China. This is the background to what is a story of a Chinese leader’s infatuation with a woman and three murders.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not really. I have always beieved in sitting down to write as soon as an idea vcomes to me.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Arthur Conan Doyle, John Buchan Ernest Hemingway, Agatha Christie, Evelyn Waugh, Dorothy Sayers, Raymond Chandler, Ian Fleming, Umberto Eco.
Writers I have admired include Philip Roth, John le Carre, Denis Lehane and Martiun Cruz Smith
What are you working on now?
As mentioned above a book set in New Zealand in th 1930s.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Awesome and the sites listed by Author Marketing Club. Also my blog, Goodreads and anything els I can find!
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write. Sit down at your computer and key in whatever comes into your head!
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Read broadly — from my older sister, a brilliant scholar who suggested books I should read.
What are you reading now?
Nothing. I am too busy. Hope to take some time soon to read the latest Martin Cruz Smith.
What’s next for you as a writer?
To write as long as I can.
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?
Name of The Rose, Portnoy’s Complaint and Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop.
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RJ Price |
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve published two books so far.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The latest book is called Sit Pretty and it is part of an ongoing series, Seat of Magic, which follows Av and Aren as they attempt to navigate their world as the new leaders of a fractured land.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t believe my writing habits are unusual. I write during my morning coffee, on breaks at work, and at home once I settle down for the evening.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I’m sure every book I’ve ever read has influenced me in some fashion. The biggest influence, however, is from an author I can no longer recall the name of. She visited my middle school when I was thirteen and spoke with my class about writing and publishing. I have no idea why the school brought in an author, it was a small school that put focus on everything except the arts.
Having her speak was an eye opener for me. I don’t recall what I thought before then, but it had never occurred to me that the books in the library, most of which I had read, came from someone who as paid to do the writing. From that point onward I decided that I wanted to be an author, I began writing and have yet to stop.
What are you working on now?
I am editing two books at once: Dark Spirits (Seat of Magic book three) and Five Years Dead (book one in the Haven series)
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’ve promoted on a variety of sites, but I believe the place that may have gotten the most attention so far has been Facebook. Though that attention mainly came from family and friends. For other readers the best method has actually been through Awesomegang and a site called Zourla.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Keep writing. I wrote probably twenty full-length books before I published one. Since publishing I’ve only paused writing in order to complete edits.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“Keep writing.”
I wish I could recall where I first heard those words, though I’m sure I’ve seen it across articles and advice pages, even from big name authors. It is the most basic, and yet the most honest advice there can be. No matter what happens, keep writing.
What are you reading now?
Anne Bishop’s Murder of Crows from the “The Others” series. I try to read books from a variety of authors but when it comes time to publish a book I seem to gravitate to old favourites like those from Bishop, Hobb, and Goodkind.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Hopefully getting Haven series up and running, as I’ve been promising longtime readers for years that I would.
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?
I’m tempted to cheat, as I know there are several collections of full-length novels from my favourite authors, but I would probably take the first book of Hobb’s Tawny Man Trilogy, Written in Red, by Anne Bishop, and any book from Anne McCaffrey.
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Jim Samuels |
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I began helping others improve their memories as a teenager in 1962. I have spent the succeeding fifty years developing and refining his applied philosophical approach to human development.
My development of SORTing™ in 1975 introduced a robust set of techniques lay individuals could use to release life-times of previously unresolved stress, and greatly increase their understanding and self-awareness.
In 1976 I turned his attention to the world of business, integrating memory training with a strategic approach to planning and management for numerous businesses.
In the 1990’s I adapted his work in applied philosophy to found The Principles of Engagement, a Martial Arts system.
I was awarded the rank of Grandmaster of Martial Arts Philosophy and trained numerous Regional, National and World Champions, including Andrew Gainer, a 3-time world champion in full contact freestyle competition.
My award-winning cable television series, The Warrior-Philosopher, ran for fifteen years and reached tens of thousands of people seeking ways to improve their lives. I have been a prolific innovator/educator, providing people with tools to relieve stress and fulfill their potential.
Today my work has culminated in Re-Minding™, a truly extraordinary personal skill that allows people to quickly free themselves from unwanted thoughts and feelings and release their natural creativity and energy. It is a major therapeutic breakthrough in memory management and personal freedom.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Re-Mind Yourself: Better Memory Lower Stress
I began coaching people in memory training in 1962, starting with fellow students at college. Over the years, I noticed a uniform improvement in their moods while using memory techniques-the natural result of having acquired a valuable, new personal skill, I thought, until an uncomfortable situation compelled me to look farther.
One day in the 1970’s, I was overwhelmed by too many things to do, which was both bothering and distracting me. An annoying accumulation of tasks had been nagging at me and demanding attention. I had so many things on my mind that it was hard to concentrate on any one of them.
It was my practice to use written lists to keep track of all I had to do, which made things more manageable. However, while I was driving, I couldn’t write a to-do list without risking an accident, so I tried memorizing a list of every task that had accumulated.
There I was driving down the road, memorizing my to-do list, and to my surprise, the more I memorized, the better I felt. When I was done, I no longer felt overwhelmed or bothered. In fact, I felt great! That was very different from how I had been feeling.
Not only did I have a very handy to-do list in my memory, I also perceived the tasks differently. This may be the most important aspect of Re-Minding: it changes the way you perceive and experience the world around and within you.
What are you working on now?
HumanGPS™
You can get my free introductory video by going to my website
http://www.drjimsamuels.com/jrs/Dr._Samuels.html
and clicking on
‘FREE HumanGPS VIDEO’
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
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