Encouragement for budding authors from Jack Canfield

I just learned that the first Chichen Soup for the Soul book was turned down by 144 publishers. I knew it had been turned down many times, something like 46. But 144! That’s phenomenal. Also, the authors’ first agent returned the book to them and told them that no one wants to publish it.

Jack Canfield says that they had a “divine obsession” to have it published. The problem was that books of short stories don’t sell. Also, the publishers said they didn’t have a platform, because they weren’t celebrities or big names. Even though they were speakers, they were not famous speakers.

Jack says that they went from local obscurity to national obscurity.

Today, I listened to a very informative and inspirational webinar hosted by Steve Harrison of Radio Television Interview Report. Through them, I was interviewed on Coast-to-Coast AM after my first book, The Golden Ones: From Atlantis to a New World came out.