Deborah Levine Herman - Spiritual Writing

11/04/2023 1h 27min
Deborah Levine Herman - Spiritual Writing

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Episode Synopsis

Deborah Levine Herman is a gifted spiritual teacher who believes we are here to raise the vibration of others and to live with love, authenticity, and, most of all, hope.

She is the author ofSpiritual Writing from Inspiration to Publication 2nd Edition. Through this timely book, Deborah helps writers discover their spiritual writing path. Her book helps spiritual writers answer the question: which kind of spiritual writer are you?

As a mystic, Deborah combines the spiritual journey with the writer’s path. She teaches that the act of writing connects people with their higher selves, and therefore the Source.

Deborah is a former literary agent with a top agency, a publisher, and an intuitive writing coach. She is also the bestselling author of thirteen books and has dedicated her 25-plus year career in publishing to writer education.

Her mission is to guide and encourage others to answer their call to write while teaching them to navigate the path to publishing.

Deborah can discuss:

The Spiritual Writers Path

· What is the spiritual writer's path, and how is it like one's spiritual path?

o The two paths can feel the same, and also have the same challenges.

· What if someone feels a calling to be a spiritual writer?

· How Deborah can tell if someone is indeed a spiritual writer (she uses her "Spidey" senses)

· How can someone know if they are a spiritual writer?

· What kind of spiritual writer are you?

o Balancing the desire to be published with one's craft

o Letting one's voice emerge

o Writing, so readers feel like they are part of something, not outside of something

o Genre, book categories, and how the business of publishing impacts spiritual writers

· Deborah's methodology: she cuts the spiritual writer's learning curve in half

o Teaches writing as a craft

o Helps the spiritual writer communicate like a professional

o Drills into the message the spiritual writer shares

· The Seven Lessons of Soul Odyssey – how Deborah's own calling guides other spiritual writers

o Courage, tolerance, self-protection, self-love, ego, love of humanity, God-love

Every Writer's Path

· Why Deborah's book can work for any writer, spiritual or otherwise

o The constructs of the seven lessons -- helping people overcome self-consciousness, low self-esteem, overcome anxiety and depression

· What if being a writer is on one's "bucket list"?

· She is an expert in memoir writing, too – especially spiritual memoir – and can discuss craft and guide writers on this path.

o Different types of memoirs and how people can write the one that's best for them

· Decoding book proposals

· Choosing the right type of publishing

o Traditional publishing

o Small and indie press

o Hybrid and vanity press publishers

o Self-publishing

· Sales, marketing, and reaching your audience in today's digital world

· Building an author’s platform

o Why it’s vital nowadays

o How it’s changed from when the first edition of the book was published

o How an author can communicate with the team they may need to onboard to help build their platform

Other Spiritual Topics

· Animal communication – Deborah can discuss how she does it and how others can connect with their pets

· Intuitive readings – Deborah can do readings with authors to see:

o If they are on the right track with their book

o Their lessons and "soul path" – she gets a "download" of what lessons they are working on

· Energy drawings or neuro drawing – she makes beautiful drawings with one line that connects in the form of a mystical mandala

o Using energy drawing with meditation

· Mediumship – may sometimes happen to help others get closure and for healing messages.