Am I excited?
You can’t even imagine. So much time and effort and heart blood went into writing the TO BE book and now, finally, it is being launched. It’s amazing and I am sooo happy and proud.
These days one reads a lot about about “How to write your book in 30 days” “How to get a book written and published in less than 90 days” etc. and without wanting to put the authors down, I think a non-fiction book needs a little more time if you want to get to the real heart of things.
In 2005 a friend from the US stayed with me for a couple of days. Over breakfast we were having a really inspiring conversation about our dreams and aspirations and I told him about my dream to write a book. He asked me when I will start and I shrugged it off and said, I will start when the time is ripe.
A few minutes later he asked again “When will you start writing that book?”
“When I get to it” was my answer but he insisted and before he left on some errands he asked me again:
“Barbara, when are you going to start?”
Well, the rest is history, as they say. I started there and then and while he was out I wrote the outline and the table of content. It felt so good, you cannot even imagine. The ideas just flew on the paper and when he came back a few hours later I showed it to him. To say, he was impressed, was the least. He was awed (which surprised me) and said that with such a table of content, he definitely wanted to read the book. Well, that is what he is doing right now…
but it took me 5 years – not 30 days!
The actual writing of the first 4 chapters took about 6-9 months of very focused WORK which involved a lot of research, referencing, and introspection. Then I took a book break and travelled for nearly 2 years speaking in many countries and learned more through teaching and listening and finally I got back to finishing the TO BE book.
Next was editing. My editor did a great job and I made the job really hard for him because each time he showed me the changes I found something I wanted to improve on still so we had to do it again and again. After working with me he gave up on editing (just joking) and works today as a news anchor for an English TV Station in Moscow, Russia. Thanks for your patience Johnny.
Now I looked for publishing options and believe me, there are plenty out there. In the end I decided to do it by myself and am very happy with that option but again, it took time. Things happened meanwhile that took my focus away once again. My Mom got ill and passed away a few months later and I kept putting the launch off.
And today I think it was all for a reason because at the end of last year the great T. Harv Eker saw an e-version of the TO BE book and liked it so much that he wrote the foreword for it. HURRAY!!! Now the book was truly ready.
And on July 21st it is being launched into the market place!
You can help me make it a success by joining our launch campaign at http://bestsellerauthors.com/tobe/
It’s a win-win situation but see for yourself.
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