Sold for Top Dollar arrives.
Today I officially became an author! The first delivery of my book Sold For Top Dollar – Low Cost Home Improvements to Maximise your Sale arrived at my front door late this afternoon and my daughter Kate and I declared happy hour and cracked open a bottle of bubbly!
Who would have thought that 2 years ago, when the seed of an idea about writing a book germinated in my mind, that today I would be a fully fledged self published author with an international book distribution deal.
Wow how did that happen? It has been an amazing journey, starting with a critical turning point in my life when a relationship with a man who I thought was my soul mate, ended for no reason. To say it dented my self confidence is an understatement and I don’t want to bore you with the details. But what I will share is I went through a very dark period where it took every fiber of my being, to climb out of a very deep hole.
I can remember the morning that the announcement came through on the TV in my bedroom that Heath Ledger had died of an overdose. When the commentators were talking about the problems he had with sleeping after he completed filming the Dark Knight and the break up of his marriage, I could totally relate to the fact that I’d just like to fall asleep and not wake up. It’s not like I wanted to die, as I’m sure Heath didn’t, it’s just that when your life is in turmoil and you can’t sleep, you can’t eat, you can’t turn off the chatter in your brain, you just want some peace – you just want to sleep!
Unlike Heath, I didn’t turn to drugs and I didn’t resort to alcohol – I was encouraged by my Life Coach, Danni, to start small and dream big! So I immersed myself in work and creativity! I had a vision of where I wanted to go with my business and I created opportunities for myself that I took immediate action on. A week after discussing my idea to write a book with Danni, I had the opportunity to be a contributing author in a compilation book of inspirational stories from authors around the world that was being published by Inspired Spirit Publishing. I jumped at the chance and within 3 months of my application I was a published author in The Path to Success which was distributed both in the USA, Australia and several other countries. I was on the same front cover as Mark Victor Hansen, Jack Canfield and Dr Wayne Dwyer. Amazing! Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup for the Soul series have sold 130 million copies of their books worldwide and they are on the same book cover as me!
Next step…..write my own book – Sold for Top Dollar.
