Hot off the press from my publicist: “Congratulations on receiving the honor of Finalist of Self-Help: Relationships for Erotic Integrity in the 2016 USA Best Book Awards! This is a well deserved honor.”
Book
my SIXTH (how fitting) book award!
Readers’ Favorite Book Awards granted me HONORABLE MENTION for Erotic Integrity.
Six Things I Never Thought I’d Be Doing as a Result of Having Written a Book
Independent Publisher
August 2016
From TEDx to Learning to Wear Makeup
The thing about writing a book is that you then have to market it. Once the teeth gnashing, hand wringing, and hours spent in the chair typing are over, you have to tell the world about your book.
I, like many authors no doubt, had no idea what that would entail. Erotic Integrity is my first book. (…)
As I was toying with the idea, a friend of mine told me: “You can write a book in three months if you really set your mind to it”. Well, I’ve long half joked that I have commitment issues, but not in the usual sense: when I commit, I do it! Three months in, I was barely figuring out that a chapter has to have a consistent structure, a book has to have an arc, that showing rather than telling is more effective, and that I needed more than just case studies or stories from my practice. So I forged ahead…for eighteen months, five days a week. I learned a lot along the way, and still am having my eyes opened to the very busy world of being an author.
Finalist in the 2016 International Book Awards: Erotic Integrity
My fifth award!! I’m honored and excited to be a “Finalist” in the “Self-Help: Relationships” category of the 2016 International Book Awards. Yayy!!
I got “Honorable Mention” at SF Book Festival!!
GENERAL NON-FICTION
WINNER: “The Longest Trail” – Roni McFadden
RUNNER-UP: “Tesserae: A Memoir of Two Summers” – Matthias B. Freese
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
- Erotic Integrity – Claudia Six, PhD
- “Secrets of the Kashmir Valley” – Farhana Qazi
- ‘Wandering in Cornwall” – Joanna Biggar
- “Lost Angel Walkabout” – Linda Ballou
- “Happy Chasing Happy” – Jerome J. Isip
- I’m so pleased that my book is getting so much praise from the award community!!!
TED Talk
“You hold mine, I’ll hold yours” with Chris Anderson of TED fame, last night at Books Inc Opera Plaza in SF, …where my book reading will be on Fri 6/3 @ 7 PM.
Chris Anderson is a British entrepreneur and the curator of TED, nonprofit organisation dedicated to ideas worth spreading.