I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE to complete my new book.
Earlier this, month I solicited your input for ideas on creativity you’d like addressed. This is Book No.2 in the series begun with HATCH! All your ideas were copied into my notes and many will be addressed in the new book. (Some are better suited for for the subject future books and blog posts.) Because I’ve chosen, again, to self-publish, there is no publisher’s “advance” to subsidize my writing time. I AM NOT ASKING FOR DONATIONS. I am suggesting and requesting different ways you can underwrite my living expenses for the next several weeks (through Sept.) while I finish the manuscript. Here are ways you can help me create this new book:
• Purchase autographed copies of HATCH! directly from my online bookstore. Each copy will be signed and personalized to whomever you provide the (first) name for each book. HATCH! is virtually the same price as Amazon’s UNSIGNED copies. Buy THREE, get 3rd book HALF OFF! Buy TEN (for your staff, team, book club) and get a FREE, Skype, Q&A with me! If your first copy of HATCH! was a gift, consider paying it forward. If you enjoyed HATCH!, I suspect you’ve thought of friends and colleagues who would benefit from their own copy. (There, you can also buy "eHATCH!" in various eReader formats, and signed copies of two of my previous—now out-of-print—books.)
—> Online BOOKSHOP link: www.cMcNAirWilson.selz.com
• Hire me to deliver a keynote at your upcoming corporate, professional association, or denominational gathering. My daily rate includes a keynote and one or two workshops (no extra peso.) I’m yours for the day. (Additional days are less than 50% of first-day fee.)
• Bring me in-house for my six-hour workshop: “The CURIOSITY TOUR” on creative team building, brainstorming (that is highly productive and fun), and recapturing the creative spirit of every participant.
—> Direct eMAIL: [email protected]
These can be for events in the near term or over next 2-3 years ... and beyond. Let’s talk and schedule something soon to avoid the rush when the new book arrives this Autumn! I promise you can afford me: I have worked with giant corporations, huge conventions, and tiny churches and colleges.*
• Host “The CURIOSITY TOUR” in your area for your staff, clients, and area businesses. If you are a church or non-profit, you can host this valuable, inspiring, inner-active, all-day event for churches and faith-based groups in your area.
• Non-profits here in Colorado Springs or Denver, book me to speak in chapel (at your standard fee + lunch!) When I lived in SoCal and World Vision was 15 min away, they brought me in every year for many years for chapel and consulting. (Ditto with Azusa-Pacific University.)
• Visit my new online shop (Cafe Press): “McNair’s Adventurers’ Outfitters” and grab a fun t-shirt, mug, comfy messenger bag... There are nine different original graphic images (with scores of products for each design.) The profit margins are slim on Cafe Press since they make each item when ordered—but every little bit helps support my writing and illustrating process—today, tomorrow, and ...
—> McNair's Adventurers Outfitters Shop link: McNair's Adventurers Outfitters
BASIC FACTS: I need to generate the equivalent of selling 100-150 copies of HATCH! (through my online store) before the end of July, then the same each month in August and September, to cover my living expenses while finishing the new book. Again, I am not asking for donations.
With more than 2,500 Facebook “friends”, and another several hundred followers between my ‘public’ FB page, HATCH! FB page, and Twitter, I believe this is all possible.
As excited as I was about HATCH! … I am far more over-the-moon about the new book. It addresses, head-on, the myth that only a few people are ‘creative’ and makes the case that each human life is born with a factory-installed creative spirit. Based on my TEDTalk, Recapturing Your Creative Spirit, the new book will restore readers’ default settings for creativity. Imagine if you could tap your REFRESH key and be awake to the possibilities of being totally you?
---> Please consider being my “patron” in this adventure of discovery and inspiration.
---> Feel free to add links to this blog in your own social media outlets.
One More Thing, if you live in Colorado Springs, I am, as always, available for dinner, most nights a week!
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* If you are college educator, chaplain, or administrator and you’re thinking, “I wish I could get McNair on my campus, but I have no resources.” Contact me and I’ll show you how to get several campus entities excited and working together to bring me in for a few days or a week. I have visited hundreds of colleges presenting my creativity workshops, speaking in chapel, and performing my two one-man plays. Many campuses were small church-affiliated schools. You can make this happen on your campus.
DIrect email: [email protected]
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