Writing and publishing a book is the most amazing process – not just for the pride it gives you as an author but for all the doors it opens as a result.
If I hadn’t written those 33 stanzas in 100 Years of Ermintrude back in 2006, I simply wouldn’t be doing what I am doing now. And, believe me when I say I didn’t plan this – it just happened.
As a result, a whole series of non-fiction books followed that I didn’t know were in me but much more came along besides. Just the connections with the most amazing souls along the way has been more than worth alone it BUT it hasn’t stopped there.
A Light Bulb Moment
I suppose it’s only natural and self-fulfilling that when I got stuck on Chapter Nine of my book on light bulb moments, it took a flash of inspiration to unblock me. The resulting ‘unstuckness’ lead to me writing a different chapter from the one I planned called Flavours of Thought. The book on light bulb moments went off to the publishers in June 2009 and came back from the editor a month later with the comment “This book is simply brilliant”. Imagine how happy a bunny I was.
You would think then I would rest on my laurels and wait for the book to be published. But, oh no, the Universe had other plans. In August, I met a wonderful soul and publishing consultant called Sue Richardson who explained a book didn’t have to be physically big to be a BIG book!
As a direct result, a whole book on the theme of Flavours of Thought just popped out and somewhat ironically got self-published in September a full 9 months BEFORE its prequel !! Note that the period of 9 months and the birth of my books seems to come up a lot !!
What unfolded next wasn’t planned however …
What’s Cooking?
People read the book and started making their own ‘recipes of thought’ based on the flavours I had described. I found readers unexpectedly using them with children and in drug rehabilitation – I knew they had a wide range of applications but was constantly surprised how they were being used.
But what happened next surprised me even more. The Flavours of Thought were inspired by the Major Arcana of the Tarot. Study of the intricacies of the Tarot can take a lifetime (or more). I knew the Tarot mapped on to something callled the Cube of Space so I got a blank cube, mapped the Flavours on to it and discovered I’d concocted a gastronomic recipe which turned out to be a path of enlightenment, blockage clearance and thus rapid evolution. I later called it The Cube of Karma.
Recipes for Fresh Thinking
A year after writing the first draft of the book, another light bulb moment came in. The secrets of the Cube of Karma could be taught and could become a really useful tool for therapists, coaches and healers. Two lovely guinea pigs came from nowhere in the form of Jackie Walker and Denise Harris-Heigho and a few short months after, I had my first trained Tour Guides!!
Another serendipity came my way in the form of Karen Skidmore’s Web Tech Club and I found out how to rapidly build and run a membership site which launched this month called Recipes for Fresh Thinking.
The site is full of new recipes, audio visualisations, articles and interviews all aimed at raising of levels of consciousness and awareness. Each month, I am running online webinars sharing the wisdom and leearnings that seem to be sent my way and a full Tour Guide training programme is now in place.
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Now all of this came from writing these few stanzas a few years ago … make a cup of tea, put your feet up and have 20 minuets of so of “me time” to listen to what started it all ….
And, if you like Ermintrude, lie down for a further 20 minutes or so and have a listen to just one of the visualisations I have ended up generating …
