My newest book offering TRAILBLAZER: A Guide for Magnificent Misfits should go live at Amazon within 72 hours. I’m excited.

 

Note to my three beta readers, Heidi Smith, Sherry Edwards Sutton, and Ilonka Liska: you will be receiving comp copies from me sometime after the first of the year, so don’t buy copies unless you want to get additional ones for friends and/or family members. No way am I going to the post office this time of year, and the copies have to be mailed to me before I can do that, which will probably take at least a week. Let me know if you want me to sign my name only to the book title page or inscribe them to you personally or to someone else before January 1st, okay?  Thanks!!!

 

In case this is the first time you’re hearing about it, here is the back cover copy so you can decide if it’s a book that will resonate with you or with someone you love:

 

TRAILBLAZER: A GUIDE FOR MAGNIFICENT MISFITS

“I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.”

 

If you have ever felt like a fish out of water because someone in your family — or your society — doesn’t value you, there is nothing wrong with you.

 

You weren’t born to measure up to anyone else’s yardstick. You were born to blaze your own path and to leave a trail for others.

 

The only contest you incarnated to win is the one that calls out to you from your heart, mind, and spirit.

 

Any time you achieve less than that, you may impress someone else for a time, but you won’t sleep well at night — nor will you rest at the end of your days as happily as you will knowing that your unique bucket list has been filled and emptied so many times that there’s nothing left to deposit in it. 

 

Dying “empty” — your goals achieved — makes for a wonderful farewell, not just for you, but for the world you came to celebrate and elevate!

 

If the waking hours you spend aren’t floating your boat, and you have another goal in mind that will, your ladder is leaning against the wrong wall. And there is still time to switch, whether you’re eighteen or 80. 

 

That’s what this guide is all about: getting from where you are to where you want to be.

 

Ready for the ride of your life? Then buckle up because you’re going places!

 

MY FAVORITE TWINING BOOK COVERS

 

Lisa Twining did a fabulous job on the cover of TRAILBLAZER.

 

 

 

I think it’s my favorite to date (of the many she has created for me) although it’s hard to choose since Womb Man and Become Shamelessly Fearlessly You blew me away, too.

 

 

 

TRAILBLAZER is full color inside, so I had to list the print version at $11.99 to get decent royalties on it (a big $2. and change per sale–the printer gets $4.09 and Amazon gets the rest minus my royalties, sheesh!).   If you don’t absolutely have to own a print version (I know a lot of readers who do), you can get the Kindle version (also full color inside) for just $6.99.  That’s by far the better deal.  It’s also immediately downloadable (when it finally goes live in the next few days).

 

I’m not big into self-promotion, so if you get it and love it, please write a review at Amazon.  Word-of-mouth via reviews is how my books sell.

 

I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it! If you do, it will be a winner!