Pass the Sour Cream Timeline

What if you only had a year to live? What would you do with your time?

If you’re not doing that now, why not?

Decide to Spark

The hardest part of your journey is done.

The first book in your nonfiction series: free or not free?

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Beyond the Book

It’s the first book in your series. How to promote it?

Brand New U.

This entry is part [part not set] of 1 in the series Brand New U

I just returned from 20Books® Vegas where I saw a need for some nonfiction-specific marketing and branding help.

From Nothing to Something

This entry is part 28 of 32 in the series Create

Gotta start with nothing.

Kinda like a leopard in a tree but then less dangerous. This is potentially a tough one--but can be super fun and secretly rewarding. Ask readers to send you photos of them with your book "in the wild." Just out and about. Maybe somewhere that's easy to recognize. Or...

SPARK authors Meg and Matthew Leal are #1 on Amazon!

This entry is part 69 of 70 in the series Spark

“A memoir of a little boy and his family’s journey with severe food allergies.”

“No, no. I will sing dirty songs on the way home.”

Had I not written this down…

The Nonfiction Author

Look, up in the sky! It’s a book, it’s a course, it’s a workshop!

2,600 Posts in 2,600 Days

The upside of downtime.

If you create every single day, I can guarantee that you will go from nothing to something

Through letting it out is when we learn, when we grow, when we live.

Maybe it won’t work out

"It'll be fine. Everything will be OK. We'll get there." We say these things to ourselves but there's, of course, a chance that: It won't be fine.Everything won't be OK.We won't get there. Let's back up. One of my titles is certainly: Motivational Speaker I speak (and...