115. Co-Writing a Book: My Journey to Becoming an Amazon Bestselling Author

Speaker A: Welcome to the Go Get Great podcast, the perfect spot for aspiring entrepreneurs and ambitious small business owners. I'm Brittany, your host, an online marketing strategist and mom of five. Here you'll discover how to start or scale your small business with practical marketing and business strategies that even the busiest entrepreneurs can implement. But we don't just stop at business insight because we know that what you do when you're not wearing your entrepreneur hat is just as important to the success of your business. As a fellow mom, I understand the importance of having a space for for real talk where we share the relatable, messy moments of balancing motherhood and a business. So let's dive in and start your journey from good to great. If you've been following me on my personal account, brittanynmiller, you might know that I am now officially a published author. But beyond that, I am in fact an Amazon number one best selling author in the women in business and entrepreneurship category. What? Totally, totally mind blowing this entire experience. So I wanted to dedicate an entire podcast episode to talking about what that is, because as much as this has been on my vision board for many, many years, it's not something that I really thought was going to be happening in my life for quite some time. Um, but truthfully speaking, writing a book, or in my case a chapter in a co authored book, uh, was a little bit easier than I was expecting it to be. So if you have the itch to maybe write a book or become part of a co authored book journey, then this episode is going to be of a lot of value to you because I'll talk about the process. But even if not, there's still going to be some really interesting information for you. So I hope that you'll stick around until the end. So I wanted to start by talking about what inspired me to say yes to the project. So if you haven't been following me and you're like, you wrote a book, what are you talking about? Well, let me give you a little bit of background information. In the late spring, early summer of, um, 2025, I put my hand up and said that I was interested in writing in a co author book called Success Redefined that was going to be published, uh, by Amanda Wilson Giocchi, the owner of the Monarch and Company, who also has a publishing house, the Monarch, Monarch Co. Publishing, I believe, which I will link in the show notes for you because if you're looking to write a book, I highly recommend working with them. Um, the entire process was just absolutely fabulous from start to finish. I felt supported. Um, and truthfully speaking, as a first time offeror, I was very nervous. And they just made it so easy, like legitimately so easy. Guys, it's easier to write a book with them than it is to figure out what I'm feeding my family of five every night for dinner. Uh, so Amanda pitched this idea about a book talking about how we as women, or women in business, because it had kind of a personal lens, but also a business focus as well. Um, how we were redefining success on our own terms and how things were the traditional definition of success. You know, go to school, get a job, work 9 to 5 until you retire is not really working for a lot of people nowadays. But there also isn't a lot of people out there kind of talking about how they're doing things differently. Yes, we see entrepreneurs, yes, we know that there have always been small business owners, but no one's really talking about how you kind of realize that that traditional definition of success doesn't work for you and then kind of what to do about it after. So that was what the book was about. There's 11 of us in total that contributed one chapter each to the book. Um, Amanda included and myself included. And we each in our, uh, in our chapter, talk about our own stories of how we realize that that definition of success just didn't work for us anymore and then kind of what we've done about it. So, so it's an absolutely fantastic read. I just finished going through it and everyone's story is just so incredible and powerful and moving and inspiring. So if you are feeling like you're just interested in reading the book, I will link it in the show notes for you to so that you can grab a copy of it, um, if you purchase it through my website because it is available on Amazon, but if you purchase it through my website, I also have a whole bunch of bonuses that you'll get with it, including an exclusive podcast episode, um, a success Redefined workbook to help you figure out what success actually looks like for you. I also have a book club discussion guide, uh, which is free. You don't have to purchase the book for that. Um, and then you will also receive a signed copy of the book from me that I will mail out to you. So lots of fantastic bonuses if you're interested. And if you're feeling like, you know what, this really resonates and I'm thinking maybe I need to rethink what I'd like out of my life, then there's going to be so Many incredibly powerful and moving stories in this book for you. Uh, so when she put out the call, I knew deep down that I wanted to be an author. Um, mostly because when she published her last book, One Decision Away, which I've also read and is absolutely incredible, I felt so much jealousy. And as weird as that sounds, I have now learned and redefined what jealousy, to me means. Because before, it used to just be this uncomfortable feeling that I thought made me a bad person. But now what I've realized is that jealousy actually means that there is some element of unmet desire that I have about that person or that situation or that thing that they've done that I didn't realize that I wanted. So she published this book, One Decision Away, and I was so jealous that I was not able to contribute to it because it was just an also incredibly inspirational and moving book as well. So when she put out the call for this one, I was like, I'm in. I'm 100% in, if you will have me. I want to write in this book. And then the more we learned about the topic, I was like, this is so perfectly aligned. Because if. If you know me, and I'm assuming you know me at least a little bit, to be listening to this podcast episode, you know that traditional is not a word that anyone would ever use to describe me, like, at all. Not in life, not in business, not in my journey to anything, which is fine. I'm totally okay with that. Uh, so it really gave me an opportunity to kind of dive into some of that and talk about, you know, where all of that came from and how I learned to basically throw the word traditional out the window and kind of do things in my own way and be very confident about doing that, because it did not come easy. It really did not. And, uh, I don't want to spoil too much about what I talk about in my chapter, so I. I'm going to try not to say too much more about that. But, um, that is more or less what I'm talking about. There are some business elements in it, because redefining success, my business is part of that, but it was also more of, um, kind of my personal journey. Um, so, yeah, so, like I said, when she put out the call for this, I was like, heck, yes, I want to write. I want to write. I want to be an author. It had been on my vision board for so many years. Didn't think it was going to be something that I was going to be able to do in the short term, because sitting down to write an entire book feels very overwhelming. We've been in a very continuously busy season of life for an extended period of time. Um, and I just didn't think that I had the capacity to sit down and write a book. But when she was like, co authored, you only write one chapter, I was like, I can do that. I can definitely do that. If I can write a blog post, I can write a chapter in a book. So I was like, sign me up. When do we start? So that was last spring, fall. People, um, were accepted as authors into the book because you have to apply for it, which is kind of cool, interesting, and also very nerve wracking. Uh, and then by kind of like the end of summer, we knew that we would be writing in the book. And then we kind of started the writing process from the fall until December is when we had to submit our final chapter of 2025. So December of 2025, that wrapped up, and then January until June when it launched, because it launched last month. Um, that was all like waiting, editing, revising, marketing, all of those fun things. So this has been something that's actually been on the go with me for a very long time. And I haven't talked about it much, uh, for a lot of reasons, which I may dive into a little bit more. Uh, but it is something that I've done and I'm so excited and I cannot wait to talk about it more. Um, so that's why I said yes to the project. Uh, I did talk a little bit about the writing journey already, but what the writing process was actually like. Because I feel like if you're interested in writing a book, that's probably one of the things that you're like, m, can I do it? And the answer is yes, absolutely you can. Anyone can write. Whether or not you write well is probably something that your inner critic is telling you that you may not be doing, but you probably are. But the beautiful thing about working with the Monarch Publishing House and one of the reasons why I recommend that over, uh, doing a self published book through Amazon, is because they have a fantastic team that's there to kind of teach you how to write a really good chapter and then also help you edit the chapter after you're done writing it. So that when someone sits down to read it, not only does it make sense and really move them through what they call a story arc, um, because they brought a professional in whose name presently escapes me. And I feel really guilty about that because I learned so much from him. Uh, but I'll try And link his information in the show notes below. Because if you do want to co author, if you do want to write your own book and self publish outside of a publishing house, you can hire him to teach you to walk you through the story arc process. Um, so I learned all about story arcs and how to format a chapter to kind of move someone through a journey and a story and an experience in a way that makes sense and is logical. So that was really helpful. And then after that, like I said, once you kind of submit your initial draft to the editors, the editors will go through and edit and be like, oh, you know, we really like this section, but maybe we want to move that up to the beginning because that's actually like a really strong kind of emotional pull. Or let's add some, uh, other information and examples here. So, like I said, fully supported through the entire journey. I felt like I like did not have a question the entire time because they're always like, okay, and this is how it's going to be and this is what you're going to do and this is how we're going to help you. And it was so handheld. Honestly, I felt a little bit like a toddler, but like in the best way. Like I said, first time author, never written anything before and they were really great at guiding me through that process. Uh, so I also wanted to kind of talk about the thing that surprised me most about becoming a published author. Uh, I think there are a couple things here too. Uh, for starters, the most surprising thing was that we hit Amazon number one bestseller literally on launch day before we even made it to the stage to do our panel discussion and talk about the book. We had already sold so many copies that we were able to kind of acquire that title, which was incredible, but very surprising. Uh, so that was kind of one of the big things for me. I uh, mentioned this earlier too, but it was actually a lot easier to write than I was expecting. Definitely have the writer's bug now. Uh, and then just in general being able to kind of put it out there in the world and share it with people, which is a nerve wracking experience in and itself. But seeing how my community responded to it and was excited for it and celebrating me through the process was really surprising and incredible too. And I'm very grateful to everyone, including you guys who are listening now, anyone who's purchased the book, etc. Etc. Even if you haven't purchased it, but you like, like to post about it. I really, really appreciate all of that. I felt very nervous going into kind of the marketing phase of it, um, because of some negative, um, internal dialogue that I had, which I was going to talk about next. Anyway, about the hardest part of writing my chapter. Um, and truthfully speaking, the hardest part was not actually the writing. It was actually overcoming all of the mental roadblocks to do the writing. So I knew, like I said from a jealousy perspective, that there was some unmet need that I wanted to write in the book. I wanted to be a published author. I said yes. And then I actually got accepted. And I'm like, wait a minute, what happened? What am I doing? Who, who am I, you know, like a barely 30 year old. Who am I to be talking about redefining success? You know, we're in the middle of a home renovation, you know, um, at the time, I was still pregnant with Orion baby number five. Now we're pregnant with. I was still relatively new in realm of business, you know, like, my business isn't even technically five years old yet. And I'm like, who am I to talk about what success looks like? And there was just so much, you know, inner, inner criticism that I was feeling. And truthfully speaking, uh, even though we had from September to December to write the chapter, I, you know, showed up to the meetings, I learned, did the trainings, but I procrastinated on the actual sitting down and writing because they needed time to work through those mental roadblocks of being like, no, you know what? I am qualified, quote, unquote, to write about this because I have been able to do X, Y and zed in my life, in my business, because of the, um, excuse me, because of the decisions I've made. And that makes me successful. So I really, that was the hardest part for me, overcoming all of that. And then sitting down to kind of write about it felt easier after I overcame that. But then seeing my community support me really helped, you know, instill that validation that I had that, you know, what I am again, we're going to say it, quote, unquote, qualified to write about all of this. So I really, really appreciated that. Deeply grateful. Um, yeah, so that was what surprised me the most. And also the hardest part about writing my chapter. Uh, one other, like, caveat about the hardest part of writing my chapter. It was actually just like paring it down because we had, literally the only criteria was that it had to be under. I think it was 3,000 words, which I have wrote English essays that are longer than that. I'm like, what do you mean? What do you mean only 3,000 words? How am I supposed to, like, explain my entire life and the decisions that have impacted me and got me from, you know, A to z in 3,000 words? So I found that to be very challenging. I found it very challenging to figure out, you know, what was the most important thing to include in the chapter to really get my point across about success and how do I share stories and examples that support that without talking too much and going on a tangent and confusing the audience and, um, you know, all of those other things. So, like I said, very grateful to have the story arc framework to follow and also to have the editors help me, because I think the chapter that I submitted as my initial draft was over the word count. And I was like, you know what? They'll tell me what's good and what should say and what needs to come out. And they did, and they were very great about it. Um, so that was. That was kind of the other half of the hard part about the actual writing just being very concise about the story that I was telling, because I am not a concise person. This is probably going to be a very long podcast episode, like every single other episode I talk about, because I talk a lot. Um, yeah. So another question that I kind of wanted to like or thing that I wanted to talk about is what emotions came up while I was writing. So there was so much. So we talked about the negative inner critic that I was dealing with while I was going through, like, the pre writing and writing process. Um, but through the actual writing process, there were, um, tears of sadness, there were tears of joy, there was excitement, there was nerves. Like literally the whole rainbow of emotions. You guys, writing an author is not. Or becoming an author and writing is not something that you should do lightly unless you're ready to address all of those emotions and work through them all individually. Uh, because they really will all impact you in some way and you may not realize it. You may start down to write, and they always. That was one of the things that they taught you in the story arc framework. Um, workshops and things like that. The writing process, excuse me, is you have to write, um, from the scar, not the wound is kind of how they phrase that. So basically, don't write about the things that you're still dealing with and addressing because it's going to be too raw, too emotional, right from a place of being healed. And what you learned about the experience, because it's. It's easier in that sense. Um, but that still doesn't mean that it doesn't bring up emotions again, because it A hundred percent does. Uh, but in the best way, it really helped me work through some of those things. Um, so it was, it was really just great to be like broken open in that way and kind of see it come to life. And I'm very proud of, like I probably mentioned before, very proud of how it turned out. And I hope that if you've read it already, you'll, you'll think that I did a good job writing. Um, and if you haven't, feel free to, to read it and then let me know what you think. Or even if you have read it, feel free to let me know what you think. You can send me a message on Instagram or email me. Um, yeah, so lots of emotions that came up through the writing process, but most of them good and for the better. So I asked ChatGPT for a couple questions to do because I know that if I don't have some sort of structure when I record these, it's just going to be six hour long tangent. So I'm just looking through some of the questions, um, and some of them I don't want to answer because it's going to spoil the chapter. Uh, for those of you that haven't read it, but one of the questions that it had actually is kind of good. Uh, and I wanted to talk about that. So it says, looking back now, would I handle anything differently? And yes, absolutely. There's a lot of things about the process that I would have handled differently and not necessarily in a bad way. Like, I don't think that I was, you know, irresponsible about the journey of becoming an author. You know, I showed up, I was willing to learn, I took constructive feedback, I hit my deadlines, all of those things. You know, I was the good student. Not to say that others weren't, but like, you know, that was kind of. I came into the experience being open and willing to learn and also very nervous about what they would tell me. I was very, very concerned that after I submitted my draft that my pride and my ego were going to take a huge hit and they were going to come back and be like, you know, you really need to rewrite this. Like a polite way of basically saying, this is crap, start over. I was so, so worried about that because, uh, I had heard from some of the authors that that was what they told them. And I don't mean to say that any of the authors were bad, because every single story in that book was absolutely phenomenal. But they knew that what they submitted was more of like a surface level and that they were trying to encourage the authors to, like, go deeper, add more story, add more emotion, talk more about the transformation that they did. Um, so I knew that it was possible because my chapter wasn't necessarily the first that got edited. So, you know, I kind of heard that from other authors. And even if they honestly had come back and told me that I needed to start from ground zero, I think I probably would have been fine doing it. And I think I would have learned a lot through that experience. Um, but it was a little nice, a little bit of a pat on the back that they had truthfully very minor edits, um, to my chapter in general. My intro, not like an intro intro, but the beginning of my chapter, I tried to put too much information in. So they really helped me pare that down. And then they helped me move a section from later back to the beginning because they felt that that was a stronger introduct. And then other than that, they just basically asked for a little bit more details and a couple more examples in a few of the places. So that was like a huge sigh of relief to me that, you know, again, it really came back to age. It's. Truthfully speaking, I just felt too young to be a, uh, published author, which is crazy because I'm sure there are people that are younger than me that have a published book. You know, I'm. Well, technically, I think I was 32, 32 when it actually published, but I was only like 30, 30, 31 when I said yes to the journey. And I mean, 30 is not old, but 30 is also not young. So I really didn't technically have any reason for feeling that way other than the fact that I did so. But looking back, like, I was. I was attempting to get to my point of, uh, as much as I showed up and I was willing to learn, and I did learn, and I followed all the timelines. I really wish that I had like, like recorded more of that and brought you guys on the journey of the book writing process. Um, because I think that that would have been really fun and interesting for you guys to see and be a part of. But because of my inner critic going, are you sure you're not qualified? You shouldn't be doing this. I really didn't. I was just like, okay, well, we'll just wait until it's done and then we'll hope that it's good and then we'll share it with people when really I should have brought you guys along for the journey in the first place. So that's the Thing that I would really. I would really do differently. And I mean, obviously from like, a marketing perspective, I should have created a wait list and I should have talked about it earlier so that I had more people interested in the book. Because I think for a lot of people, it was just like a surprise I wrote a book. Here it is. Um, because that's kind of how it felt. And as much as I knew I had these things coming up, it was just kind of like a surprise. I did this thing because I was still so nervous, even kind of closer to the end of the project where everyone's like, yep, this has been edited. This has been approved. You know, we're so excited. The lead author, Amanda, read the chapter about a month or so before we published, and she sent me comments, and they were just so incredibly, like, wonderful and supportive. And even after all of that, I was still like, I don't know, are people gonna resonate with this? You know, is it really good enough? Because at that point, I hadn't read any of the other author's chapters. Um, I could have. We all got a copy of the book to review our own chapter in and edits, but I really wanted to wait until I had the physical book tangibly in my hands to read, because that's just. That's just the type of person that I am. So at the time I was like, well, you know, it might be okay, but everyone else's could be better. And I mean, I still probably feel that way, like, a little bit, but I also feel now that I've read through the book that that, truthfully speaking, my chapter doesn't stand out that much as, like, that much worse than everybody else's. It kind of blends nicely. So thank you, editors. You're gonna fully put that out there, uh, on them, that they did a good job with that. So that's something that I would definitely do differently. Um, if and when maybe more of a. When I write another book. I have lots of ideas, actually. Um, we'll talk about that in a minute. Uh, but I wanted to talk about kind of how becoming an author has changed things for me. So in addition to just being able to, you know, include in all of my bios, which I now have to go through and redo and rewrite, maybe recording a new intro for Go Get Great after this. It says Amazon best selling author, which is exciting and also annoying for Grayson to have to edit, but exciting enough that I'm going to make him do it anyway. Um, it's really changed how I see Myself as an individual, I definitely feel more like accredited, like a little bit more like validated. Um, and I talk about this in my private podcast episode. If you do purchase the book or um, if you have purchased but you purchased on um, Amazon, you wouldn't necessarily have access to this. But I may be willing to make a little bit of an exception if you're curious about hearing that. But um, it definitely has changed the way that I look at myself and I feel a little bit more confident having that kind of title behind me. Published author, Amazon number one bestseller, all of those things. But uh, it's changed a lot too, uh, about how I run my business, which again I talk about in the private podcast episode. But I'll share kind of a brief synopsis of it here. But I was exclusively like an online business. Like I was a service based provider. So now that I have like a physical book that I can sell people, I'm now also a product based business. So I'm learning a lot about you know, marketing, um, and promotions and like I know these things and I've done these things for my clients and. But doing it for yourself somehow feels different. I still have to go and look into more of like the shipping aspect of it right now. Any of the books that I've sold I've just been able to drop off to friends and family kind of thing. Um, but eventually my hope is that I'll get to ship books to people, uh, across Canada and also into the us, Europe, Asia, whatever. Um, so I'll have to look into what that looks like and how much it costs to ship and all of those things. So there have been a lot of changes like internally for me and also like from a business perspective too. Um, so it's been really cool to see a very interesting journey. Definitely one that I hadn't budgeted enough time for in advance. So I feel like it's kind of like the aftermath of me going, oh, shoot, I didn't market this well. As a marketing expert, I did not market this well. Um, because as much as I knew that I needed to like create a page on my website and put some pop ups up and some banners to promote this and you know, I really should have created a wait list and like a waitlist bonus and I should have been posting on social media about it more and like, you know, having uh, an incentive for people to like purchase in the first few days and like all of those things, bonuses for people who purchase through me instead of on Amazon because I make absolutely $0 from anyone that purchases through Amazon. So, like, I need to, like, direct people to my website to purchase my book or I will never see any money from this. This. And, um, you may not know this, but you have to pay to be a published author in the book. So I won't put a specific dollar amount on it because, um, it may change. And I don't want you to be like, oh, yeah, I could publish a book for X amount of dollars. Um, because Amanda's prices, I don't know whether they change or not, but you have to invest quite a bit to be part of the journey. And that covers the training of how to write a story, and it covers the marketing and the expenses from the launch day party and all of those things. And I get it. I'm fully will invest in all of that. Um, mostly because I didn't have to worry about handling any of that myself, but now it's like, okay, cool. Well, I've made this very large investment and I would kind of like to recoup some of my costs from it. So I need to, like, sell and market my own book. Um, which I haven't even been able to do very much post launch, which is like, okay, well, I didn't get it done pre launch. I can do it post launch because I got, like, on my deathbed sick for two weeks after the launch party. Like, I could not do anything. The perks of being pregnant, they didn't want to give me meds for a very long time. So it took me a long time to recover. But anyway, uh, so I feel like now I'm trying to be like, okay, well, now the book's been launched for almost a month and we're still kind of in, like, initial launch energy mode. We're still recording bonuses and now creating podcast episodes. I've got some ideas for some blog posts. I have some more social content that I want to create. It's like, all of this should have been done a long time ago, but it hasn't been. And it just, I mean, like, it is what it is. The book is something I should be promoting continuously. Ongoing. Um, and I hope to. It's something that I struggle with maintaining the energy and excitement of posting something I'm very much like a, uh, oh, I'm excited to do it. Okay, now I've done it. What's next kind of person. Um, and I need to get better at sitting in the, ooh, I've done this. I need to tell more people about this kind of situation. Um, because, like, I'll Post something about being pregnant. And I feel like I've been talking about this for, like, six months now, and I'll still have people go, oh, my God, Congratulations. I didn't know you were pregnant. Wait, what do you mean? It's twins. I'd be like, guys, where have you been? Uh, so that's why you need to, like, continue marketing things, because you never know when people are going to see your content again. Um, I feel like I might have lost my train of thought here a little bit. Oh, uh, yeah. So it's changed how I see myself because now not only am I, like, an influencer and content creator outside of my business, that's mostly where I hang out now on my personal page. Brittany. Uh, and Miller underscore. And I can talk about my book and sell my book. I now have a way to monetize that because I was making no money from that either. Um, so it's kind of helped me have a little bit stronger of an identity and direction in that more like, personal realm of content that I create. And it's also further reinforced my credentials as a business owner and marketing strategist, which is really cool. And like I said, it's changed fundamentally, like the back end of my business now, too, because I have. Have a physical product that I have to, um, invest in because I have to order the books that I then have to market, that I then have to ship and sell or sell and ship, I guess. Um, yeah, so it's changed a lot. All for the better. It's just kind of some of these things that I didn't really think about when I was like, yeah, okay, let's do this. I just truthfully did it because I knew that from a personal sense of accomplishment, it was something that I wanted to do, and I knew that there would be benefits to both my business and my. My personal life doing it. But, like, I didn't set out to be like, okay, the next best step for my business is to write a book that wasn't where I came into the journey from, although lots of people do, because a business is, truthfully, a fantastic way to promote yourself as a business owner. You know, add some credentials, blah, blah, blah, give you something that you can sell. Kind of like an introductory item for people who maybe haven't worked with you before, kind of those sorts of things. It is a great, logical business app for a lot of people. But that wasn't why or how I came into this journey. So now I'm just like, oh, it's time m to Put on our marketing strategist hat, Britney, and do what you have done for clients before, but for yourself this time. Because I have worked with authors before, I have created sales pages and email sequences for them and suggested marketing materials and like all of those things, like I know, know the how and the why. I just need to like sit down and do it. Which has been very challenging in this season of life, but we're getting there. Um, okay, a couple quick things before I wrap up because like I said, tangent, uh, talk a lot. Actually we're doing better than I expected. Uh, time wise. Uh, so one piece of advice that I'd give someone who wants to write a book, do it, just do it. Don't think about it too much. Your inner critic is going to come in and you're going to second guess yourself and you're not going to start, just start literally just word vomit things onto a page. Come up with an idea that you are excited about and think you can write enough about and then figure the rest out after. Because you do not need to have a book written before you go to a publisher and be like, I want to publish a book, can you? Yeah, probably. But you don't have to. You can very much be like, you know, this is something that I'd really like to do. And I think truthfully speaking, they would probably even guide you through the ideation phase of figuring out like what it is that you, you should write about and could write about. But I do think that from just like an internal perspective, it's helpful for you when you go to the publisher and invest all this money to know what it is that you're going to kind of get out of the journey. Excuse me, Outside of having a book like are you writing about something business related? Is it a memoir? Are you talking about your personal life? Those sorts of things. So I do think that spending some time thinking that through in advance can be very helpful. But like you do not need to have a full on book. And also I think the other thing is too is like we over complicate it. So it's like when I sit down to write a book, I'm assuming it needs to be like 200 pages. Well, looking at success redefined, which I happen to have sitting in front of me, it's like 160 pages with like very large font, lots of spacing. It's really not as bad as you think it is. So I mean each author had 3,000, uh, a 3,000 word limit. I don't know whether everyone maxed out their word limit. But there are 11 chapters, so that's. I'm bad at mental math, but like that's 33,000 words. That's not even that much, guys. I'm sure I say 33,000 words in a podcast episode and you can literally do that too. You can just record yourself talking, transcribe it into text and then like give it to an editor to edit. Edit it yourself. You know, all of those things. Uh, it does not need to be as complicated as you're probably making it. If this is something that excited about potentially doing, then do it. Just do it. You can figure the rest out later. Well, and by later I mean like once you're on the journey, but like get started, get committed. Do it while you're excited about doing it. Um, also definitely work with the Monarch and co publishing house because like I said, they are absolutely incredible. Pretty sure every single book that they've published so far has hit Amazon bestseller. Don't quote me on that because I'm not sure how many books they might have published last year while I was in pregnancy Brain Fog with baby number five. Um, but I know that the solo book that Amanda published herself, the Monarch her signature eight method for launching. I forget the rest of the title. I'll link it in the show notes. Um, that hit bestseller and then both of her co authored books, One Decision Away and Success Redefined that I was a part of, they both hit bestseller and I know that they were launching two other books in June with solo authors or like a pair of authors. I think for the one of them, one of them was Magenta Me and then the other one I can't remember the title of, but I'm pretty sure Magenta Me hit bestseller and I think the other one did too. So I mean they know what they're doing like a hundred percent. They know what they're doing. They have a definitive, uh, strategy and like structure that they work you through that's really good for beginner authors. Um, and they, they typically get really good results. So definitely worth the investment from like a business perspective and from like a personal perspective to like go and do that. So check out their information. I will link it down below. But even if you're not interested becoming an author right now, you should still like follow Amanda at the Monarch and company. Um, because she has a lot of incredible business resources if you're a business owner. Uh, like I'm part of her Monarch Momentum membership for female entrepreneurs. And it's great, it's. I, I love it. You've probably heard me talk about it. I'll link more information about that in the show notes as well. Um, but one last thing that I'll kind of like wrap up with. Ah, a question that I literally asked us on stage that night was, you know, is there going to be another book? Would you write again? And I'm like, absolutely, heck yes, 100% I would write again. Do I know whether it's going to be a co authored book or a solo book? No, I don't. I definitely have ideas for both. I would love to write both. Right now. I think the biggest thing for me is, is the time commitment knowing that I have twins coming soon. Although truthfully speaking, if you are like pregnant or like newly postpartum, um, I find that the postpartum phase is like a just a really great slowing down phase and I have a lot of like ideas and inspiration and it truly is like a great writing phase. That was when I wrote my chapter for Success Redefined when I was postpartum with Orion. Uh, so who knows, maybe I'll be sitting down to write a, uh, book either, uh, a chapter and leading a co authored book or maybe I'll work on a solo book for myself while I'm in the newborn postpartum phase with the twins. You never know. I like to surprise people and mostly myself, but I definitely would love to write again. I actually wrote a children's book a while ago. It's never been published. It's uh, an idea that sitting in a Word document, um, it's been sitting in a Word document in my Google Drive folder for a very long time because it's a kid book and I need someone to illustrate it and it just feels overwhelming to try and figure all that out. So I definitely am a writer and a talker and a creator and all of those things. And I know that I'm not done. I just don't necessarily know what's next yet. And I'm excited to figure that out. So I hope that you'll stick around and, and see what it is that I do next will surprise everyone, including myself. Uh, but thank you guys so much for tuning in and listening to this episode. If you ever have questions about the book itself or about writing your own book, I'm always happy to share my experience Again. Still technically a first time author, you're probably better off talking to someone like Amanda who has written more books. But I'm happy to kind of share my expertise and thoughts and opinions as well. 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