Mr Alan Pinkus shoe designer extraordinaire, poet and great friend has published!
Alan Pinkus is a fashion leader of special occasion ladies shoes in Australia. The book highlights the ups and downs of Albert Le Stache, the novels main character as he navigates life.
To read more about my other clients and projects please click here and to read Alan’s novel Sole to Soul can be purchased here.
I’m so excited that Glen is now published! It’s been an amazing ride for Glen, whilst writing his book he moved his business and family from Melbourne to Beverley Hills! His book is well worth a read if you want to swot up on your sales, networking and business skills, not to mention spotting the famous celebs! It was a pleasure to help him get this book off the ground. Buy his book here.
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Congratulations Glen it’s been a pleasure to work with you!
What an amazing year! My first book published and distributors knocking at the door! Wonderful clients who teach me so much and fabulous new friends and colleagues who enrich this journey.
Next year will see my second book published, writing workshops, more fantastic clients to help work on their books and another Sexpo. I’m sure other exciting projects will come along too, I just cannot wait!
My new workshops will include;
My book is to be released into the world imminently for anyone to read and so it is not surprising that I feel slightly vulnerable. My teacher told me; ‘it’s good because it’s authentic’. I hope people don’t nail me to a cross for what I have written because yep it’s pretty authentic! When I sent my ‘Meta Data’ sheet off to the publisher this week I don’t mind admitting I felt just a little bit sick with nerves. That just about to get up and talk to an audience sick, quite appropriate that next week I will be attending a ‘speaking’ course then. I may as well get all this nervousness out-of-the-way.
Now that I am nearing the end of book two, I was thinking about how I got to this point. I thought I would share with you the top tips from published authors that have kept me writing.
When I was halfway through book one I decide I need some feedback. What if this book is a complete load of rubbish? I’m nearly up to forty thousand words. After talking to a few local authors it’s tempting to just keep writing as the story has been flowing out of me.
‘Have you written the plot?’ asks my friend
‘Nup, it just flows. Every time I sit down at the laptop the characters know exactly what they’re doing. In fact they know before I do sometimes!’, I laugh ‘I watch my fingers on the keyboard, then look up and re-read it thinking what on earth are you doing now Harry?’
She smiles at me ‘That’s perfect, just keep going then’
In the end my doubts get the better of me and I decide to send two very different chapters to a friend of a friend. The feedback as I suspected it would be was very constructive and exactly what I needed at the time. All questions and queries all relate to a) what was in the next chapter and I had already written b) what had previously been written or c) what I already knew I needed to work on.
My confidence in the book resumes and to a higher standard. I start having imaginary interviews in my head with Jonathan Ross. I try to visualise the front cover. I have never had an abundance of confidence and I have never really found anything other than dance that I excel in. Could this be my thing?
On a night out with some school friends I just happen to sit opposite a recently published writer. I had sent her an email and she had given me some advice about local writing groups. I have been so consumed by my book I forgot to reply and thank her. How embarrassing. She asked me if my book is a public conversation, what a great question I think. My face reddens slightly, I feel like I am coming ‘out’.
‘Kind of, its funny how it becomes your baby and you become protective, I couldn’t possibly say I am a writer’ I say, ‘I do have about forty thousand words though!’
‘That’s great’ she says, ‘keep going, I’m working on number two now and I don’t call myself a writer yet’
‘That’s crazy, you’re published, of course you’re a writer!’ I tell her.
We talk most of the night in hushed tones. I steal her away from the other conversations and hang on her every word.
‘When you get your publishing deal, you’ll get an editor and they will help you too’ she says
I raise my eyes to the ceiling and laugh.
‘It’ll happen’ she says
Somewhere inside me I know she is telling the truth. This book will get published I can feel it, I just don’t know when.
The next day I open my wardrobe and what falls out are two folded pieces of A4 paper, I have carried these around for years, about ten to be exact. They are the idea for a book and what book two is now based around. Indicators, synchronicity call it what you want, they are everywhere if you just look in the right places.
My book Sharks & Lovers is available to download here: