I’m co-authoring a book - to be out in January 2007!

The book is called Power & Soul: 40 Successful Entrepreneurs Share their Secrets for Creating the Business and Life of Your Dreams, and my chapter is entitled Embracing Chaos with Grace: Balancing the Worlds of Modern Mommy and Money Maven. I’m so excited to be a published author, and share the ideas I have discussed on this blog with the world — the challenge, and joy, of running a business while being the primary caregiver of an active toddler. Once I know the date I will have the books ready for sale, and a website for ordering, I will post it in this blog! So, how did I get this opportunity? I’m in a mastermind group with Ali Brown, an eZine and internet marketing guru, and she decided to spearhead a compilation book of some of the members of her mastermind group. The book is sort-of self-published by the entire group … what I mean, is that we all have to buy a few cases of the book at wholesale cost, up front, and that pays for professional editing, graphic design, layout, and the first printing. We don’t have to come up with any more money except to pre-order books — and it works because we are in a group, and can spread out the costs. In my case, when Ali first offered the book opportunity to the group, I passed. The idea of writing a publishable 1500 word chapter in a few weeks seemed to hard, with everything else going on. But really, I was just not ready yet. I didn’t know what I would say. In November, a few more slots opened up. I had to make a split second decision to join up — and commit to come up with a topic in a few days, and write the chapter in 2 weeks. But then, I was ready. I had been writing in this blog for a few months, and had experienced even more challenges in the summer and fall, with childcare and Gracie getting older. I now had something to say. When opportunity knocked the first time, I was not ready to answer the door. But, since it was meant to be, she rang the doorbell again — and this time, I knew how to answer!