Jul 14Liked by Russell Nohelty, Claire Venus (she/her) ✨
I hope you know how utterly incredible you are ... This was such a joy to read and I'm so thrilled for you, the book looks amazing and I'm sure it will be a great resource for so many.
Your 10 books in 10 years goal ?!? 🤯 Amazing... If anyone can do it you can ! I'm over here plucking up the courage to start on book no 1! I'm taking this as some wonderful inspiration of the possibilities ✨ congratulations again Claire 👏
Aww thank you Emily! You can do it - and just for you! Are you in soul circle?
Yes leaning into the process of curating a book was so brilliant and honestly I didn’t mention it here but my first ebook was literally designed in word. I commissioned a front cover by an artist and made it a pdf in 2020. Look how much tech has moved on… so much is possible. Elin Petronella wrote about how many words we actually write on substack a few months back and I couldn’t believe it. Then when I was lifting stuff from here for the book I realised how many words we write without even knowing. My memoir is stuck at 10k words but I think it’s either as far as it’s going or I will revisit it next year/ year after - it’s too hard to write right now. 💕✨💕
I am in SoulCircle! Are you? I'm using that as a source of inspiration and a big push. It's wonderful but a tad intimidating also (in a good way I think!?) !
It is incredible, it's the little and often approach isn't it.
A memoir would be such an amazing project ... I think how precious to be able to put that together, for you, for your family (and girls!) and for others too.
Claire your drive is so inspiring, thank you for being so generous as always.
Yes I’m in. You know when I did Mothership Writers everyone was southern and so articulate and intelligent and I was the ONLY one with a northern accent. Everytime I had to speak I felt like vada from My Girl when she does poetry summer school. That was in 2020 and now I’m like oh here are my words guys! It’s wild what showing up does for your confidence and craft. I LOVE Beth so much. ✨💫
It looks like you have a lot of posts on your stack. You could probably compile a bunch of them into a book. Then, you will have a book and the next one is easier. There is a whole chapter about it in the book in fact
Hi Russell 👋 thank you for your advice, that's so kind of you. Yes, that's pretty much where I'm circling too ... Maybe using some of the posts as chapter ideas and digging into the ideas, philosophy and concepts more, giving them space to be explored more fully. Congratulations on the book too! I'm in awe ✨👏
Yay!! I feel like it’s so helpful to have things modelled - I love these types of posts myself and it all fits with my self seeded buisness (I think) so I thought I’d share ✨✨🥰
Hi Claire, Congratulations on the book, and thank you for sharing behind the scenes! I can't wait to get my hands on it. I am following the Kickstarter. Can you tell me if the book will be accessible on Kindle?
Thanks Jana. It will be downloadable as an ebook but I am unclear how we get that onto our kindle/ e-reader... let me wait until Russell wakes up and he'll answer... I'll have a quick google of that too.
Oh, no! Please don't wake him, and don't ruin your Sunday. I only wanted to know if I needed to download a different reader. But if it's a downloadable ebook, it'll work on Apple Books. I've also subscribed to Sparkle Summit. Great and exciting summer is coming up 🥳
It will be available on Amazon eventually, probably. The only thing I can say for sure is that it is available on Kickstarter, and you should buy it there if you want it. You will receive an epub you can add to your kindle. I will not commit to any other distribution timeline than that. My last Kindle release took years for me to release it there.
I looooove how you’ve given us a massive peek behind the curtain!
And of course your number 1 reason to collab was to have fun - I could never get bored of this reminder - that fun needs to be a big big factor 🙌
doesn't it - I do find writing about Substack so fun. The hardest part was truly trying to work out what the cohesive voice would be. x
Yes this was fascinating!
I hope you know how utterly incredible you are ... This was such a joy to read and I'm so thrilled for you, the book looks amazing and I'm sure it will be a great resource for so many.
Your 10 books in 10 years goal ?!? 🤯 Amazing... If anyone can do it you can ! I'm over here plucking up the courage to start on book no 1! I'm taking this as some wonderful inspiration of the possibilities ✨ congratulations again Claire 👏
Aww thank you Emily! You can do it - and just for you! Are you in soul circle?
Yes leaning into the process of curating a book was so brilliant and honestly I didn’t mention it here but my first ebook was literally designed in word. I commissioned a front cover by an artist and made it a pdf in 2020. Look how much tech has moved on… so much is possible. Elin Petronella wrote about how many words we actually write on substack a few months back and I couldn’t believe it. Then when I was lifting stuff from here for the book I realised how many words we write without even knowing. My memoir is stuck at 10k words but I think it’s either as far as it’s going or I will revisit it next year/ year after - it’s too hard to write right now. 💕✨💕
I am in SoulCircle! Are you? I'm using that as a source of inspiration and a big push. It's wonderful but a tad intimidating also (in a good way I think!?) !
It is incredible, it's the little and often approach isn't it.
A memoir would be such an amazing project ... I think how precious to be able to put that together, for you, for your family (and girls!) and for others too.
Claire your drive is so inspiring, thank you for being so generous as always.
Yes I’m in. You know when I did Mothership Writers everyone was southern and so articulate and intelligent and I was the ONLY one with a northern accent. Everytime I had to speak I felt like vada from My Girl when she does poetry summer school. That was in 2020 and now I’m like oh here are my words guys! It’s wild what showing up does for your confidence and craft. I LOVE Beth so much. ✨💫
Very true ! I'm getting there ... Slow as ever 🤣🐢
It looks like you have a lot of posts on your stack. You could probably compile a bunch of them into a book. Then, you will have a book and the next one is easier. There is a whole chapter about it in the book in fact
Hi Russell 👋 thank you for your advice, that's so kind of you. Yes, that's pretty much where I'm circling too ... Maybe using some of the posts as chapter ideas and digging into the ideas, philosophy and concepts more, giving them space to be explored more fully. Congratulations on the book too! I'm in awe ✨👏
More space YES that’s such a good way of looking at the writing process!
Great idea 💡 and one I don’t know many folks will think of?
Very, very exciting! Also, I love your publishing goal and the books you want to write ✍🏼 You are an inspiration Claire! 🤗🥰🩷
Thanks Mackenzie. The first once was excruciatingly difficult to put out in the world and the others that followed have been easier every time. ✨🥳✨
Wow very exciting, I'll be waiting for it to be launched on Kickstarter
Thank you for your support Sophie!!!
This sounds so exciting and I love how open you've been about the whole process. I genuinely can't wait for this book to come out.
Yay!! I feel like it’s so helpful to have things modelled - I love these types of posts myself and it all fits with my self seeded buisness (I think) so I thought I’d share ✨✨🥰
Congratulations! I agree, it’s these types of posts that give me inspiration to keep moving forward. Thanks for sharing.
Aww thanks Lori!! Where are you at on your author journey?
Hi Claire, Congratulations on the book, and thank you for sharing behind the scenes! I can't wait to get my hands on it. I am following the Kickstarter. Can you tell me if the book will be accessible on Kindle?
My husband is just telling me every kindle has an email address (who knew) so that's how we do it! Yay!!!
Thanks Jana. It will be downloadable as an ebook but I am unclear how we get that onto our kindle/ e-reader... let me wait until Russell wakes up and he'll answer... I'll have a quick google of that too.
Oh, no! Please don't wake him, and don't ruin your Sunday. I only wanted to know if I needed to download a different reader. But if it's a downloadable ebook, it'll work on Apple Books. I've also subscribed to Sparkle Summit. Great and exciting summer is coming up 🥳
It will be available on Amazon eventually, probably. The only thing I can say for sure is that it is available on Kickstarter, and you should buy it there if you want it. You will receive an epub you can add to your kindle. I will not commit to any other distribution timeline than that. My last Kindle release took years for me to release it there.
That's great. I'm already following 😊
Thanks Russell! Need to google how to actually put books on my kindle clearly - zero clue other than amazon puts them there... lol
Ohh that’s how it works! I am such a dinosaur on everything except Substack 😂
The same here minus Substack expertise 😂
Oh I just meant he’ll see this as he’s tagged 😂 when he wakes up IF he goes online 😂
Thank you, Claire.