Amy Collette, Author at Unleash Your Inner Author

Amy loves to work with people who make a positive impact. Amy is a Book Coach, Founder of Unleash Your Inner Author, and the Author of The Gratitude Connection. She is also an award-winning speaker, teaching business and creative groups about the power of their unique stories to build authentic connections in their personal and professional lives. Amy hosts the Positively Powered podcast, teaches author workshops and helps change makers on their journey to become published authors.

How to get a great foreword for your book

May 1, 2017 by Amy Collette Leave a Comment

His Holiness the Dalai Lama A foreword is a section at the beginning of a book, usually written by a person who is well-known by the readers in that niche. Having a foreword is not required, but it can be a powerful way to reach readers who don’t know you yet and guide them to [...]

Awakening your Feminine Spirit with Stacie Ivey

April 25, 2017 by Amy Collette Leave a Comment

Once Stacie Ivey got the book-writing bug, she unleashed three books at once! She says she has always had the dream of being an author. "I knew I had this book inside of me that needed to come out. But because of my own confidence issues and ways that I blocked myself, it took me [...]

Advice for authors – have you found your reader soulmate?

March 30, 2017 by Amy Collette 1 Comment

All the marketing gurus talk about defining your “target market,” finding your “niche” and speaking directly to them. I have always fought the idea of narrowing my focus to a target market, because I don’t want to leave anyone out. I also have a problem with the whole “target” idea, since it seems like we’re [...]

Are you writing your book the hard way?

March 2, 2017 by Amy Collette Leave a Comment

Every entrepreneur I talk to wants to make an impact. To teach, to inspire, to encourage others to live a more fulfilled life. But writing a book to expand their impact can be a daunting task. So what stops people from making their dream come true? What’s holding you back? Everyone struggles with too many projects, [...]

Advice for authors from authors

February 8, 2017 by Amy Collette Leave a Comment

I recently made a request for information about you authors and how you do what you do. Thank you to all of you who shared your struggles as well as what works for you! Here are some of the responses I got from authors who are working on their books right now: What has been [...]

People like you are changing the world

January 5, 2017 by Amy Collette 2 Comments

People like you are changing the world. Every day I hear about the impact purpose-driven organizations are making. A recent Smithsonian Magazine article called American Ballad reports that social benefit companies are “one of the great untold stories of the past decade.” Coaches, authors, and other change makers are featured on podcasts such as Positive [...]

How to be “Ultra Spiritual” with JP Sears

December 6, 2016 by Amy Collette Leave a Comment

You may know JP Sears as a spiritual coach and YouTube comedian. He is an internationally known speaker and producer of the popular YouTube "Ultra Spiritual" and "Awaken with JP" video series. Now he's becoming an author! JP's book, How to be Ultra Spiritual: 12 1/2 Steps to Spiritual Superiority, is being launched in March, 2017. [...]

Putting your author bio together: step three

October 24, 2016 by Amy Collette 1 Comment

When you are vulnerable, authentic, and generous, your readers trust you to guide them through the transformation that you teach. In your biography, you want to show that part of yourself to your readers. So before you start putting the pieces of your biography together, think about how you feel about books and authors you [...]

Writing your author bio – step two

October 12, 2016 by Amy Collette 3 Comments

Last time I talked about the difficulties of writing your bio - for your book, your website, or your workshops/speaking events. The first step in creating your bio is to brainstorm all the things you might want to say about your awesome self. The second part is how to get into your audience’s head and [...]