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Author Beth Jones: Remaining Hopeful Is How We Sustain Our Journey
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Author Beth Jones: Remaining Hopeful Is How We Sustain Our Journey

Please enjoy this Q&A about the book writing process with memoir author Beth Jones.

My book is Becoming an Empowered Survivor, You, Too, Can Heal from Trauma and Abuse, in which I share my story about my healing journey, told through my acronym for HEAL, which means to hope, evolve, and love. In the book, I share my experience with each of these actions. I wrote the book to crystallize my message to other survivors of trauma and abuse, following the subtitle of the book, that they, too, can heal.

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Author Jorja Jamison: “We Must Be Active in Healing Ourselves in Conjunction to Healing Others”
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Author Jorja Jamison: “We Must Be Active in Healing Ourselves in Conjunction to Healing Others”

Please enjoy this Q&A about the book writing process with addiction recovery memoir author Jorja Jamison, PhD, LP.

JORJA JAMISON, PHD, LP: When I was training in my doctoral program in psychology, I loved getting to present at conferences. But there were usually not a lot of people who attended conference sessions, even at very large conferences. My advisor once encouraged me to write, saying that I could reach a lot more people through my writing than my conference presentations. She was referring to publishing in academic journals. I never found that pathway fulfilling, but her words always stayed with me.

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How to Research and Evaluate a Hybrid Publisher

How to Research and Evaluate a Hybrid Publisher

If you’re currently writing a book, or even have a finished manuscript in hand, you’ve probably thought about the next step: How will it be published?

Maybe you’ve struck out in the search for an agent or traditional publisher. Perhaps the prospect of self-publishing feels daunting. You may have heard about “hybrid publishing” and wondered if it’s the solution you’re looking for.

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Author Gary Laney: “A Book Needs to Invoke a Feeling of Building Something”
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Author Gary Laney: “A Book Needs to Invoke a Feeling of Building Something”

Please enjoy this Q&A about the book writing process with leadership author Gary C. Laney.

SPIRITUS BOOKS: Tell us a little about your book and why you wrote it.

GARY C. LANEY: Become a Super Leader instructs leaders and emerging leaders how to identify and develop skillsets they need in order to maximize their performance at a proficient level. It also addresses the importance of identifying one competency in which they may possess a natural ability; this can potentially become their superpower as a leader and later a legacy they can leave behind.

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Author Jenny Lisk: “Memoir Is an Act of Service”
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Author Jenny Lisk: “Memoir Is an Act of Service”

Please enjoy this Q&A about the book writing process with memoir author Jenny Lisk.

JENNY LISK: My first book is a memoir, Future Widow: Losing My Husband, Saving My Family, and Finding My Voice. It’s an account of losing my husband, Dennis, to brain cancer when our kids were nine and eleven, and then trying to figure out how the rest of us would carry on. I know from experience that widowed parents feel lost and alone, so if my story could help some of them, I really wanted to write it.

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