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Today, we are celebrating one of our incredible Book Magic authors and her brand-new planner, The Radiance Planner: A Daily Astro Planner to Find Cosmic Flow and Ignite Your Inner Light.

Rebecca Zaccard is an astrologer at Radiance Astrology who knew she wanted to write a book to complement her business offerings… she just didn’t know what. As she showed up for her daily writing practice and kept running her astrology practice, her ideas gradually formed into what became an obvious choice: a planner she could use for herself and to help others live in alignment with astrology in a practical way in their everyday lives.

In this Author Spotlight, we talk about what it was really like for her to bring this inspired idea into the physical world, from trusting the intuitive process to launching something that’s now in people’s hands and being sold in local bookstores in her area.

Click play to listen to this conversation or keep scrolling to read the highlights:

Tell us a little bit about you, your new planner, and who you have created it for!

 Well, my name’s Rebecca, but you already know that. And among many other things. I’m the founder of Radiance Astrology, which is a heart-led astrology business that has all sorts of intentional offerings that are all designed and crafted to help lead you back home to yourself, to your radiance, to shine your bright, radiant light, with the cosmos as your guide.

And I’m more than just the work that I do, I’m also a live event sports host, cat and dog mom—all sorts of things—but Radiance Astrology is totally my passion, and the newest offering is the Radiance Planner, a daily astro planner that is a daily companion to help blend the astrological into the practical.

I think a lot of people think astrology can be really esoteric and really out there, and I think it's much more practical and much more accessible than people think with the right tools. And so that's why I created this planner that blends both.

I have a lot going on in my life, and I know a lot of people do, and I don’t want my daily practices, my spiritual practices, my rituals to be separate from my “real life”. I want them to be all infused and guided by the cosmic cycles, guided by my own rhythms and by my intuition.

So that’s why I created the Radiance Planner, and it’s for people who want more of that… who want more ease, alignment, and flow in their life, that want to be present and to tune into the rhythms and the cycles of the universe.

 So, you basically created what you wish existed in the world?

 Yes, I am a Leo Sun, so that is what I am here to do. I feel like I have tried all the day planners out there and all the astro planners out there, and I couldn’t find exactly what I wanted that blended both.

 And so I was like, okay, we’re doing it ourselves!

What made you want to become a published author in the first place?

Writing a chapter for Soul Rising really unlocked something in me and helped me realize that I have something to say that’s worth sharing—that I’m a writer because I write every day.

I started to feel the inspiration that I wanted to write something, and I had the opportunity to join Book Magic, so I had support and a step-by-step guide along the way.

Even when I joined Book Magic, I still didn't know what I was writing. I just knew I was writing something, and I just trusted the process.

And then, in August 2025, I co-hosted an outdoor day retreat with my dear friend, Amber of Amber Waves. It was called Rooted, Radiant, and Rising. It was such a beautiful gathering. It was right around the New Moon in Virgo so, of course, I created a planner during Virgo season… or came up with the idea. Gotta get organized!

During the retreat, we dove deep into the New Moon in Virgo energy with intention setting, sowing seeds, fine-tuning, organizing, and planning. But as I was prepping for the retreat, I was like, I can’t just dive deep into Virgo energy and then leave these people hanging after the fact!

So I created this printout, which in a way is the first iteration of the Radiance Planner with the major moon phases and sun seasons for the remainder of the year, with journal prompts for them to take home and utilize.

By the end of the retreat I got such great feedback from everybody of how impactful the astrological element of the retreat was and, and everything else we did too, but I just knew… boom! Light bulb, this is what I’m creating. This is the offering that’s going to be the most supportive. This is what I need to do now. And I just went home and [got to work]. But that was really the inspiration behind it.

What has been the most challenging part of the process?

An important thing for aspiring authors to think about is the feedback piece. That part is scary, but it’s so important, and I have had to really take my ego out of it and let the work be what the work wants to be—what is going to be the most supportive tool for people.

It's been such a spiritual experience because as you're writing, sharing, creating, putting something out there, you're kind of going through your own spiritual activation, your own initiation.

There have been challenges and setbacks, but some of those challenges are internal. It’s self-doubt. It’s fear of criticism.

For me, I love to edit. Oh yeah, I’ll go back, and I’ll fine-tune day and night. This is in print—no more editing—except I am going to make future planners so I can fine-tune in the future.

There was a meditation that we just did the other day in one of our intention-setting circles in Book Magic about tapping into and visualizing the energy of your book, or in my case, planner, and letting it tell you what your next step is. And every time I come back to a circle or a class or a call, it helps me reconnect to my why and get out of my own way.

 What is the main message you want your planner users to walk away with?

 I want them to reconnect to themselves, to their intuition, to their higher self, and to the cosmic cycles and the universal rhythms, and to presence.

We get so distracted in our society, distracted and almost divorced from the flow with the pings and the dings and the reminders and the plans and the meetings and all this 3D reality, but if we invite in the cycles and the rhythms, and we're guided by those, we're taking something universal and making it really personal.

And that’s why there are journal prompts throughout; they’re inspired by the energy, but it’s about how this universal energy really relates personally to you and what resonates for you. And the more we can do that, the more flow we can feel, the more ease we can feel, the more alignment we can feel in our “real” lives.

Our real lives are our spiritual lives. We’re just spiritual beings having a human experience, and I think we can bring more presence into it.

So, that’s what I want for people. I want them to tune back in in an easy, accessible way.

Right now, it’s the beginning of January—resolutions. We think, “I’m gonna make these big changes, these major overhauls.” First of all, it’s still winter where a lot of us are, and so, you know, we’re not necessarily ready to get up and go right now. We might be planning, tuning in, or reflecting, but it can be small… it can be simple. It’s just a simple daily check-in in the morning. A simple moment of writing down what you’re grateful for.

And then, with the lunar phases and the sun seasons, it can be as active as you want. Do you want to harness the lunar energy and set your intentions with it? Great. Do you just wanna be aware of it and flow with it? Great.

It's a practice, an easy, effortless, go-as-deep-as-you-want, or stay at surface level as you want practice. Everything's an invitation. Nothing is an instruction. As I write in the beginning, in the welcome section, "You're the author of this planner and this beautiful life. So write what feels true for you at any given moment."

What do you feel you learned about yourself along the process of creating this beautiful product, tool, and heart offering?

 Well, first of all, I learned that I can take an idea and make it manifest, like bring it into the physical.

And there were moments in the process where it felt impossible and there were moments in the process that it felt inevitable. But you know, I was the engine. I’m the doer, right?

I have tools, I have support in Book Magic, and in my loved ones in the spirit realm. I’m not alone in it, but I actually have to take the steps, and I did that. So, it did build confidence in myself.

And we started to touch on this, but some of the shadows of self-doubt…historically I haven’t been great at receiving criticism. And so… learning how to not just accept feedback, but ask for feedback, knowing that is gonna make the offering better because at the end of the day, as you said, it’s a heart offering.

I want it to be impactful for people. I want it to be a supportive daily companion, a tool. So it’s not about me, it’s about that, and also like with the meditations inside Book Magic… I’m letting the planner tell me what it wants to be, what its essence is, and now it’s like I birthed this beautiful baby out into the world. It grew up so fast, and now it’s going off to college to have a whole life of its own with whoever picks it up.

 People are using it. Probably this morning there were people drinking their morning coffee or tea using it already. Your planner's already stocked in stores and you're shipping it out from your website, so it's out there.

 And we had a launch party at a local wellness studio, the Collective Wellness Studio, here locally in Butler, Western Pennsylvania, where I am. And it was cool. People bought the planner there, but they also brought the planners that they had already purchased and wanted me to sign, which is sweet. I was like, “This is your planner, but sure!”

And I saw them write in it, put their sun, moon, and rising, and their word of the year—and I wasn’t reading what they wrote— but just glancing through it felt really beautiful. It’s just an honor to have it out there, and that people want it, and are creating within it—co-creating with me, in a way.

I really learned a lot about myself and my confidence, and also that I’m on the right path, that this is… I’m gonna get emotional, but this is what I want to do. You know, I want to inspire and support and continue to create offerings that will be impactful for people.

How has being part of the Book Magic community impacted your journey as an author?

 It’s been invaluable to watch and witness everybody at the different points in their journey and to be able to support each other through it. It just makes a process that could feel really solo—like a lonely journey—and brings it into community. I think community is so important.

I just felt really supported throughout the process, and I don’t think I would—well, maybe I would’ve eventually done it—but not at the speed I did and not in a way that was as grounded or as supported or, you know, really fun.

There were moments in the process when I was in flow. I was like, I could do this forever. It was meaningful to be able to celebrate that with other people who get that.

And then when the inevitable challenges, setbacks, you know, other things came up, I also had people to process that with who got it. My husband is so supportive, but he’s probably sick of talking about my planner, and my friends love me and support me, but aren’t in it. So to have people who are in it with you is 10 out of 10 recommend it.

 What would you say to someone who's feeling called to write a book or maybe even create their own planner or workbook or journal, but they haven't started yet?

 Just start. Just start with a word, a sentence, a page. As I said, for me, I didn’t know what I was writing yet. Let the writing tell you what the writing is.

So, just begin and follow that call and trust yourself. You’ve got something to say and people who want to hear it. So just begin and, you know, find a community, maybe like Book Magic if you’re looking for the spiritual support and the step-by-step guide.

You know, find a community that can help you along the way so that you don’t have to feel alone.

Finally, how does it feel to be holding your finished planner in your hands, and what's next for you?

 Hmm. It feels… I feel really proud. I’m so proud of it, even though I know that there are things that I’ll fine-tune in the future, and it’s the first of many, but I feel really proud and hopeful that it’ll be supportive for people and help bring them presence and flow, and what’s next is more planners!

The first one is for the first six months of the year, partly because I wanted it to be small enough that you could put it in your bag and take it with you wherever you go.

I travel a lot, and so I used to have my astro planner and my daily planner, and they never fit in my carry-on. I was like, this is too much stuff! So, I wanted it to be small enough that I could take it with me.

I will do the next six months of 2026. I’ll start working on that. I’ve already started… let’s be real. And then also, I’m winding down my busy season for the other part of my career. I work in football, and so once football season’s over, it’s off to the races for Radiance Astrology with in-person events, astro flows, some retreats, and workshops. I’m going to do an Intro to Astro because I found a lot of people who want the planner, and they’re really interested in it, and they’re like, I want more. I want to learn. Okay, cool. Let’s learn!

So we’ll do some locally in person in Western Pennsylvania, but I’ll also have some of those online on my website as well. And yeah, continuing to offer Radiance Readings, astro bath and body oils, and all the things.

I’m going to try not to create too many more offerings because I have a lot, but I have this vision of the “Radiance Ecosystem” and how all the different offerings allow you to choose your own adventure.

You can just take the one that you need. You want to know your own soul through your birth chart, okay, a Radiance Reading! But oh, you want to find more alignment in your daily life? That’s the planner! Oh, you want to learn astrology? That’s the workshops. So you don’t need to do any or all of them, just what you feel called to, but I want to create them.

So I have a lot of ideas, and we’ll just see what inspires me to work on next.

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Today, we are celebrating one of our incredible Book Magic authors and her brand-new book, The Ultimate Animal Communication Quote Book: The First Book Ever Written Directly by Animals. Johanna Bloom is an animal communicator at Bloom Animal Communication, and she is also a wonderful artist of pet portraits, so she has illustrated her own book, as well as channeling all of the messages inside from the animals she has worked with in her animal communication sessions.

If you are thinking about writing and publishing a book, you will love hearing about Johanna’s journey from querying over 85 agents to making the decision to self-publish, and what it was like publishing a channeled book.

Click play to listen to this conversation or keep scrolling to read the highlights:

First of all, how does it feel to finally become a published author?

I am so excited about this book. It has been literally a lifelong dream, like little, tiny “childhood me” always wanted to be an author, and now it’s finally happening. It’s finally real.

I’m actually in a state of disbelief right now. I can’t believe it’s just out, like it’s done. It’s published, I have it in my hands, people are reading it, and it’s a really good feeling. It’s almost like a “what’s next?” kind of feeling, ’cause this has been such a big goal for so long. I’m in a state of like, wait a minute, like what do I do now? So that’s great.

 I had complete creative control the entire time, which is more than I ever expected to have. Because people warn you and say that your publisher is going to want to edit things. They’re going to want to change things. They have a specific audience they’re going to market to. That’s sort of the trade-off, you know? If you wanna publish a book, you usually have to release some of that control. But I didn’t have to do that.

I had control the whole time over exactly how I wanted to say things, how I wanted to organize the chapters, where to put the illustrations, what font I wanted to use. It was amazing.

 I mean, it was probably more work. I’m sure it was more work to be doing the organization myself, but I think it paid off – it looks exactly the way I had hoped.

What inspired you to write this book in the first place?

 What’s funny about this book is that I didn’t know I was writing a book. When I started writing it, I was just journaling. I would do my channels, I would do sessions with animals, and they always say things that blow my mind, that stand out to me, where I’m like, oh my goodness, I need to share this!

I started sharing animal quotes a little over a year ago on my TikTok channel, and eventually on Instagram as well. And people loved them. People loved the quotes and were asking for more and more and more. And eventually, I had so many sessions that I couldn’t post them all. I couldn’t keep up with it anymore, but they were still important.

And so I was still journaling. After I do a session, I’ll sit down and journal and jot down the quotes that stood out to me the most. And. I couldn’t post them all on social media, so I just started compiling them. And then one of my clients, Ashley Mondor, introduced me to Natalie and interviewed you on her podcast.

And I listened to that and found out about Book Magic, and I was like, wait a minute, I could make this into a book. I kind of already have all the material. It’s all there. It’s in four different journals, so I had to organize it and compile it. But it was as if the book was already mostly done by the time I realized I was writing it, which was kind of ironic.

 What would you say is the main message that you want readers to walk away with?

 I suppose the main thing that my book is centered around is telepathy. The way animals use telepathy to communicate with each other and with us, and the process of learning to tune in. As far as I understand, we’re all born with the ability, we’re just conditioned out of it. We’re conditioned to believe, oh, that’s not real. Animals can’t talk. There’s no such thing as mental communication.

And so I had to unlearn that, and a lot of what animals tell my clients is that same kind of process of deconstructing like, “Hey, like I’m talking to you. This is what I’m trying to communicate. This is how to connect with me.” So, that’s a really strong theme.

Through the course of the book, I also try to include things from their viewpoint that seem important that we wouldn’t know without being able to talk to them directly, like common questions that people have. I tried to include those. I tried to include both practical things and things about management and husbandry, as well as the mind-blowing spiritual concepts that come through.

I grew up on a farm. I trained horses professionally for 10 years and developed the ability [to communicate with animals], almost subconsciously, while I was doing that. And then I had some realizations over the years where I realized that, "Oh my goodness, they're actually communicating with me mentally!"They're sending me images, they're sending me concepts.

 And then after that, I took some training and learned how to do it from a distance, which I didn’t know until just a couple of years ago, that we can actually connect with animals regardless of distance. I don’t have to be right there with them. So that’s how most of my current sessions are done via Zoom.

Then it just built from there. ThenI had a new client base that was worldwide instead of just local, and I got to take down quotes and compile them. So, it’s become very big. The whole thing just kept growing.

 I am their voice, which is very cool. It’s an honor, and it’s something I take very seriously.

How does your book fit in with your overall business & content strategy?

The book is like a perfect intermediate step between the social media quotes I’ve been sharing, which have to be very short and sweet and condensed, and the full sessions, which are half an hour to an hour of me just translating.

So those are very detailed, and the book has become a sort of sweet spot right in the middle for people who maybe aren’t ready to book a session yet, or they have done sessions with me, but they want to know what other people’s animals say, and I can flesh out the quotes more. A lot of the social media quotes are in the book, too, but they’re more fleshed out.

I’m able to give more context and what was actually going on in that session, so that’s been really nice, too.

 And you work with all different kinds of animals, so you have messages from many different creatures, don't you?

Yes, I do. I have them organized by chapter. I start with the common ones. I’ve got dogs and then a chapter for cats, and then horses, and then exotics and farm animals and passed animals too, like across the rainbow bridge.

So I’ve got them all organized, and I’ve got reptiles and fish and amphibians and small mammals. There’s a chapter for wild animals, too. So I tried to put a little bit of everything to give the full spectrum.

I feel like this first book is probably going to become part of a series because I'm still journaling. I'm still compiling. So there's already a book two in process. This first one was an introduction.

I tried to explain what I do, bring a lot of different perspectives into it, show the diversity of it, and open my readers’ minds to the possibilities that this creates for us. So, it is exciting.

 What made you decide to self-publish instead of going the traditional publishing route with this book?

 I had tried to traditionally publish three times with three books that I wrote before this one, and I could never do it. I took seminars where I learned how to pitch. I pitched to 85 different agents, and mostly I didn’t get any responses.

Sometimes I would get a response that was a little encouraging. They would say, “Hey, this is well written. It’s well presented, but it’s not what we’re looking for right now.” I had some people tell me, “I don’t see a market for this book.” As in, I don’t see how it could sell.

This is basically what they told me, and I just got tired of it. I got discouraged. I’m pretty good with rejection, but at some point, I just had to come to terms with it: if I want my work to get out in the world, I’m gonna have to do it myself, because I’m just tired of trying to convince other people to believe in it. I believe in my work. I already do, and so I was thinking about self-publishing for a long time.

But I’ve seen people self-publish before, and I know how difficult it is, and I know how aimless it can be. When you’re just stepping into that world, and all you’ve really got is Amazon, and you might get the book published, but then how do you convince anybody to buy it because you don’t have the credibility of a publisher, you know, like a big name backing you up?

I wanted to be super professional about it. I wanted it to be taken seriously. I didn't want to just write this and then have it sit on the shelf, collecting dust. So I was waiting, honestly, I think I was looking for you for years. I was waiting for some kind of guidance.

I’d started watching videos on YouTube, trying to learn all about the process, and it just seemed so complex and so advanced. There were so many different options, and everyone had done something different.

When I found your program, it went step by step. There were actual modules for everything, and you had already done this before, so you had already done all of the trial and error.

I think it would’ve taken me at least 10 years to get to this point on my own, to go through the process and do the trial and error and find which software programs were the best and which companies I wanted to work with, and which print-on-demand company to use, and how to navigate Amazon without getting trapped.

Because they do try to trap you and make it so you have to exclusively sell with them. There were things like that that I knew I would face. Having someone to teach me who had navigated it all before legitimately saved me a decade of work.

How has being part of the Book Magic community impacted your journey as an author?

 I’ve gotten the benefit of learning from your experience so that I didn’t have to go through it myself, and it was just far less frustrating. I didn’t feel frustrated while I was doing this process. There were some elements of it that were tricky and that I had to spend some days or weeks learning to navigate, but at the end of the day, I could tell that you had authority and experience, and I really trusted your opinion. I had a really clear path to follow, and that was just lovely. I legitimately can’t thank you enough for that.

There were also a couple of other students who were kind of on the same track as me, and we could exchange manuscripts and give each other some feedback.

And one of my fellow students helped me format the afterword that I hadn’t really planned to write. She gave me some really solid advice that helped me format it in a way that I was really happy with.

And there were other people who were working through the same software that I was and learning it for the first time. One of my fellow students made me a screen recording of how she navigated something.

So, it was just really helpful. I felt very supported the whole time.

Did this process bring up any difficult emotions or things that you didn't expect to feel as you went through it?

 It did. The hardest part was actually at the end, like the last month, when it was basically all done. I was just waiting for my release date and running my pre-launch campaign. I was scared. I got this case of stage fright.

The whole rest of the process, I had been so focused and so like, “Yes, this is what I want. I’m willing to work for it. I’m willing to learn everything.” And I was so excited, and I had so much energy and motivation to do it. And then just at the very end, I got scared, and I was like, “Wait a minute, once it’s out, it’s out.”

I didn’t know what to do with myself once it was done, and that brought up some big emotions. I think I might have been accidentally manifesting delays, because there were some weird delays that happened at the end. I think it’s like anything, you know, it was new. It was something I hadn’t done before.

I had been working for so long to get to this point that once I had made it, it’s actually going to come out now, and I’m done. And this is now new territory. It was such a big goal just to get here.

There was definitely a fear of being seen and being really vulnerable. Sharing on social media, I can take down posts, I can edit things. There's a certain amount of control that I still have over the message that I'm sending out. And a book is different. Once it's out, it's in print and I can't change anything about the message. I can't control how people are gonna respond to it.

In a lot of cases, I can’t even see their reactions. They can tell me what they thought of the experience, but there are a lot of people who will read this, and I will never know how it impacted them.

And I just had to be okay with that. I had to be like, you know what, I believe in what I’m saying. This is genuinely my message, and I’m just gonna send it out and let the world react to it. And that was big for me.

 It's like your gift to the collective, basically. And most of the time you don't hear from people, but I'm guessing you have heard from some people, and I'm curious what kind of feedback you have been getting!

 I’ve heard from some people. I had a little flood of orders when I first released my book on the 1st of January, and I think some people are still getting their books. But as for the ones who have, I’m mostly getting feedback about the illustrations, actually. People are really excited about the illustrations because that was something that I don’t think I’ve shared a lot on social media.

My art’s been sort of a separate field for me. I’ve done pet portraits for a long time, but they’re so private. I haven’t really shared that a whole lot. So, people open the book and experience my art for the first time, and they’ve been telling me that it adds a lot of depth to it. They tell me they really like the cover design; it creates an immediate visual connection, which is enhanced by the words and quotes.

So, what’s really fun for me to realize is that it’s created a sort of multimedia experience for them, which is very cool.

I got to put in some longer interviews, more than I can do on social media, and I’ve been getting a lot of feedback about that, about the emotional response that people have to some of these interviews. Because it’s a mixed bag.

I try to be very fair about representing the spectrum of things that animals say. Sometimes it's very positive. Most of the time, it's very loving. But there are some sad stories, too. I just included it all. And so I've heard from some people that those interviews were very impactful.

I get comments like, “Oh my goodness, this wrecked me!” Or, “This completely changed my perspective.” And people are telling me how relatable the animals are in their stories and their perspectives. Even the sad things.

And that makes me really happy, too. Because there’s not as much of a difference. That’s what I’m trying to do, I think, is bridge the gap. We’re not as different from animals as we think we are.

 Have you heard any feedback from animals about your book? Obviously, they're probably not sitting down and reading it with a cup of tea, but have they mentioned anything about it?

 Well, mine have. I have four animals, and they were very involved in the process. They were giving me a lot of feedback. There is artwork and images of my animals throughout the book, and a lot of quotes from them, because I included my own animals when I did sessions with them.

And I know that it’s been emotional for them, too. Realizing that these things that we talk about, these things we’ve talked about for years, concepts we’ve worked through with training and with our relationships with each other… these are now being released, to be absorbed into people’s consciousness.

And [it’s special] to know this type of relationship is possible. It’s possible to talk through these types of details. I know that they’re excited, and they all wanted to be involved. My horse, Horizon, my Mustang, really wanted to be on the cover. I talked through it with my different animals, and I was like, okay, well, I need a cover design. And Horizon was immediately like, “Me, pick me, I wanna be on the cover!”

So, I designed her on the cover, and it just makes me happy every time I see it. This little image of the two of us. As large-scale as this project is, it’s also coming from my personal experience. And so I was really happy to be able to integrate that.

I remember it was kind of a novelty when we all started making social media accounts for our animals, and now there's books written by our animals. A book... hopefully, mine will be the first of many. I hope that this will not be a one hit wonder kind of thing. I hope that this becomes more normalized.

 What advice or feedback would you give for someone who's thinking about writing or publishing a book, but they're hesitating - maybe they feel like it's too overwhelming or it's too hard?

 Well, first of all, I would tell them to join your program or one of your programs, because I know you have different options. I did the one where I did most of the work myself, and I was just guided through it. I know you also have options where you and your company take on some of their responsibility, too, and so I would just encourage them to go look at your options and find out which one is best for them.

I’m very independent, so I really liked doing the whole thing myself, but some people aren’t. Some people want more help, and you have another tier for that, too.

It's so clear, and it's so specific, and it's so strategic the way you guide us through each individual step. I think that's kind of rare to find a spiritual, creative type person who's also highly detail-oriented. Finding someone like you just feels very rare and very special to me, and I feel like you did a really good job of blending that.

There are guided meditations that people can use, and there are group sessions for support, and there is group writing – group zoom calls where everyone just writes. And so wherever you’re at in the process, there’s help, and there’s support.

And I feel like writing the book and publishing the book are two pretty different things.

I know writing the book is such an emotional experience, and you’re putting so much of yourself into it. And then publishing the book becomes a lot more about the details and about the logistics and about strategy. And if strategy isn’t a strong suit, you know, Natalie has options for that, too. Whatever type of experience you want to have, however much control you want to have over the process, there’s a place for you in this program.

I know that people’s processes are different. Mine went relatively quickly, I think because I had so much built-up motivation, like this was something I had wanted to do for so long.

As soon as I had the tools, I just took off with it. And I’ve noticed that for some of the other students, it’s a little bit slower. You know, they’re still in the process of writing. They still hit writer’s block. They still need to work through some things. Some of them, the book is still a concept, and I know that you’re helping guide them through that, too.

I feel like you understand the entire process – from the conception of the idea of the book, through the writing process, through editing and publishing, and how to find your beta readers, your test readers.

There are steps, and there are modules, and there’s community support for all of it.

It is a really huge endeavor. Publishing a book is no joke. It is a lot of work. It really is. And for me, it was a very joyful work. It was a privilege because it's something that I know that not everyone gets to do, even if they want to, just because they don't have access to the kind of resources that I now do because of this program.

And so I’m really excited about that too, about the concept of publishing becoming more available to people. The fact that you don’t have to be screened by an agent, and you don’t have to be seen as profitable by a publishing company. It makes room for those of us who are just starting out who don’t already have a foot in the door. And I think it opens up room for a lot more voices, too, a lot of different types of books.

I’ve really loved the diversity in the program, the ideas people have, the artwork they’re making, and the concepts that are coming out. It’s very revolutionary. You basically removed the gatekeeper. There are no gatekeepers telling us whose work fits the ideal of what publishers know will sell because they just need to make a profit.

But when it’s just me, and I believe in my own work, and even if it didn’t ever sell on a large scale, it would be deeply rewarding for me on a personal level to have the book published.

That’s motivation enough. That’s the energy that I needed to get it done. So I just feel like this opens the door to so many people, and if you’re feeling called, go walk through it, you’re going to be fine.

It’s very empowering for sure, to just be like, “Wow. I can share my voice in this way, and no one can stop me.”

No one’s even trying to stop me. It’s just an open road now.

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