Eve Picquette has been looking for love, joy and fun all her life.
Along the way she has had lots of experiences - some with more fun than others!
A licensed attorney, she served as director of risk and quality management at
hospital corporations in California and Arizona for thirty
years. She is also a certified NLP life coach, matrix, EFT and Angel Therapy
practitioner. Eve Picquette received her MSN in community mental health at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, and her Juris
Doctor from the University of California, Davis.
Author of Open
Your Heart for Happy Relationships: 10 Shift Keys -What Your Angels Have
Been Trying to Tell You for Centuries and companion Mini Meditation
MP3's, she lives in Arizona, and her present happy work is teaching and
advising clients regarding having more love and joy in personal and business
relationships.
For More Information
- Visit Eve Picquette’s website at www.AdvisorIsIn.com for free Angel Reading and other gifts.
- Connect with Eve on Facebook and Twitter.
- Contact Eve.
Thanks for letting
us interrogate interview you! Can you give us a
go-for-the-gut answer as to why you wanted to be an author?
As an attorney, I
have done a lot of writing, so that part was easy. I didn’t plan on writing a book. I had written some quick relationship tip
sheets that I wanted to give away on my
Tell us (we won’t
tell promise!) is it all it’s cracked up to be?
I mean what are the perks and what are the demands?
Demands - Writing
can be lonely if you are used to being in a busy office with lots of chaos and
drama. There is also the question of
whether anyone will want your book, when all is said and done. This is also dramatically connected to your
financial state – unless you are independently wealthy!
Perks – Personal
freedom! I love knowing that I can do
what I want and write about what I want!
I may choose to work today, but I don’t have to impress anyone with my
work ethic or appear at 8am somewhere everyday!
Which route did you
take – traditional or self-published – and can you give us the nitty gritty low
down on what’s that like?
I love design, so I
wanted to have a beautiful gift book and be in control of the cover, colors,
fonts, and content. I choose
self-publishing for that reason and because I am impatient and didn’t want to
go through the submission and rejection (and possibly no acceptance!) in the
traditional route. Amazon’s Create Space
made it very easy and really a pleasure.
The only delays have been my own – correcting, fixing, adding more
content.
What’s the
snarkiest thing you can say about the publishing industry (e.g. rejections, the
long wait, etc.)
I am too early in
the process to really comment. Great
question!
Tell us for real
what your family feels about you spending so much time getting your book
written, polished, edited, formatted, published, what have you?
My daughter
approves. I am currently living alone,
so am blessedly free from any criticism of my schedule, late nights or
obsession with my book! My friends
aren’t really aware of where I spend all my time.
What was the
craziest or insane thing that happened to you in the book publishing process?
I am pretty new –
so I should have a much better story in a few months. This is pretty boring - I
did have a book cover designer who didn’t really think I meant what I said
about how the book should look. I had to
have them modify the cover to follow my original intent. Other than that it has been really smooth!
How about the
social networks? Which ones do you
believe help and which ones do you wish you could avoid?
I only use Facebook
and Twitter – and I think they can be helpful.
I use Aweber and Social Oomph to make it easier. I would skip Twitter, but it seems to be
important and many people read my tweets – which is amazing.
Book sales. Don’t you just love them (or lack of?)? How are you making the sales happen for you?
I am working with
Dorothy Thompson of Pump Up Your Book. I
am pretty good at many things I do, but marketing is NOT one of them. I knew I needed help!
What is one thing
you’d like to jump on the rooftop and scream about?
Since the object of
my book is to ignore what I can’t control and other techniques to let go and be
happy – I should not say what I would jump on the rooftop and scream about –
(sounds of laughter). However, if I
were really human – I would say that if I get a negative review of my book,
(that I, of course, feel is entirely unfounded) that would do it!
Okay, too much
sugar for you today! Here’s a nice cup
of Chamomile tea and come on over and sit under the cabana and watch the waves
roll in. Now…can you tell us what you
love about being a published author and how all those things above doesn’t
matter because it’s all part of the whole scheme of things and you wouldn’t
have it any other way?
I so agree with the
part above – “all those things don’t really matter”!
What I love the
most is the idea of freedom. I want the
opportunity to “sit under the cabana and watch the waves roll in” – more than
for 2 or 3 weeks a year. That is my goal as a semi retired writer - to be able
to travel more and enjoy everywhere I am, every day!
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