I have had a passion for writing since the 7th grade, but, like many aspiring artists, I didn’t do much with it thinking “it wasn’t practical” to want to make a living at it. Not to mention that for many years I had a feeling that it “just wasn’t time yet”. Then a light switch went off inside me about 5 years ago and I decided to start small. Though I’d been writing in a journal since about the 8th grade and done high school news articles, I had not earnestly made any attempt to publish anything.
Believing that I can create my reality, I asked myself, how do I want to create my ideal life? Making a living as a writer, using my imagination, traveling the world with my family and still be able to be an involved mother were the obvious answers for me.
So I started small with writing children’s picture books. Then I started looking for ways to publish, meanwhile picturing myself as a “Best Selling Children’s book author”.
As I became slowly more confident and bold, I asked a friend if his wife (a well known local artist) might be interested in illustrating my children’s books. He said “What you need is a publisher! I have a friend, give him a call…” Though the friend did not publish children’s books, he did have some valuable advice “What you need to do is create a buzz about yourself and your writing on-line…”
“On-line?” I shuttered. At that time I was someone who checked my e-mail maybe once a week and avoided it as much as possible the rest of the time. I LOATHED spending time sitting in front of the computer -The only exception being if I was writing, but even then I could only tolerate short sessions. I often marveled how my internet addicted CPA husband could stand it.
Nonetheless, my focus on “being a successful author” guided me to make more connections. Eventually I checked my e-mail in time to make it to a book signing of one of my new publisher friends authors and a few more opportunities presented themselves… By this time I figured “What the hell, I may as well aim for the top!” I have had a few novel sized book ideas in the back of my mind for a while so I started imagining myself as a “New York Times #1 Best Selling Author”.
I had had a vivid and enticing dream maybe a year or so before and had eagerly written every detail in my journal then tucked it away in my “book ideas” mind file. After I started envisioning myself as a NYT best seller (writing it over and over, putting it on vision boards, saying it to myself repeatedly etc…) I started seeing that enticing dream unfolding into a whole story that got me more and more excited! Details I saw or experienced in life and people I met seemed to fill in the blanks and gave me more and more exciting pieces of the picture. I was jotting down ideas and details madly in the small note book I now carried with me everywhere.
At that time, my daughter was 2.5 and my son was 1. Thankfully both my kids were sleeping through the night, but I was still nursing my youngest and as you can imagine, I had very little “free” time and even less energy. But still, I HAD to write this exciting story that was now pulsing through my every nerve!
I am so deeply grateful that my husband was so incredibly supportive and watched the kids so I could lock my self in the bedroom to write in the evenings …kids often banging on the door because they wanted to be with me -even though I had just spent all day playing with and caring for them. Or even when I just needed to go for a walk to live in my head for a while 🙂
Nine months later, I finished my first sci-fi (What!! Me ??!!) metaphysical, action suspense, adventure, love story. Never, in a million years, did I imagine I’d write such a genre -especially since the children I’d craved having, were still so young. Honestly, I’m still a bit amazed I did it, but I HAD TO! There was something in me that absolutely HAD to WRITE THIS BOOK! (Click the link at the top of the page to read the first chapter of Flashpoint.)
Now what?! I tried submitting for a while, but I knew I had to clean a few things up and though I’d received better than expected reviews from friends I could trust to give me an honest answer, that didn’t get my book in front of publishers.
Then I did a program called 40 days and 40 nights to a Quantum Leap in your Wealth with David and Kristin Morelli (www.EverythingIsEnergy.com). That’s when I really broke through my barriers, cleared many of my blocks and took the action leap toward my Grand Goals and my life’s purpose!
So here I am, FINALLY taking that publishers (Ted Savas of Savas Beatie publishing www.savasbeatie.blogspot.com) advice and making a buzz about myself and my writing! And thanks to David and Kristin Morelli for diligently guiding me to break through my limiting beliefs about creating success with my passion and pushing me to take BOLD ACTION where I was formally so unwilling to venture out of my “Comfort Zone”.
Before I wrap this up, I must give a very warm THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! to my web designer Douglas Neal,@ www.freshmintdesign.com. You did such an amazing job taking all my ideas and making them even better than I imagined! Not to mention, helping to make this crazy “web world” come together to make sense to my technically limited brain. I know this site is not supposed to “be about you” but YOU deserve SO much credit for making my little authors blog site look and feel so awesome! Your talent and creativity has truly impressed me! Thanks for putting up with all my many, many questions, requests… and even more phone calls… and making my web site look SO incredibly fitting to my book, personality and unlike any other! You made this site look awesome!… did I already mention that? …too bad ;). (Please explore all around this site and leave a comment below -let us know what you think!)
(All my posts won’t likely be this long, but I had to lay the ground work :). Please, join me on my journey to get published and beyond! Get more excerpts from my book Flashpoint and more on my scientific/metaphysical discoveries! Subscribe just to the right and, if you like it, share this site with all your friends!)
So in conclusion, I have been interested in what was considered “paranormal” my whole life, but is now being rapidly proven by science and accepted much more widely. The concepts in my book are rooted not only in my personal experiences through my life, but also in the many, many studies, over history and now, anchoring these concepts into our reality. Finally! I have some proof to back up my crazy “out-there”-ness!”
Spiritualists have been teaching many of these concepts for decades, even many many centuries in older parts of the world, and although I have felt them as truth in my bones my entire short life, I absolutely LOVE seeing the scientific evidence pointing in the same direction. “SEE! SEE! I want to point, shouting to the left-brained skeptics! …and even the part of me that began to believe the same doubts of the masses….
Now you see, in part, what motivated me to write Flashpoint, a mind expanding adventure and unique passionate love story that is a bridge between science and beyond.
So…. if science is only just BEGINNING to prove the power of our mind/energy…
Ask yourself this question……
What are we REALLY capable of?
Thank you 🙂
With Love
Jamie
