Do you feel validated? I heard Oprah once say that she thinks everyone on this earth has one basic need—to be validated. I know when I started the National Assn of Women Writers it was because I needed to find other women who loved to write and create like me. I needed to learn with them and laugh with them because I yearned for the validation that I would receive as I in turn validated the writers too. Little did I realize at the time how many women all over the world needed their goals and dreams affirmed just as I did.

I too believe that validation or passionate connections as I like to call them are so important that I have built multiple companies with that vision in mind. Here are a five ways I have learned to create passionate connections and validate others over the last seven years as I grew the NAWW and my other companies ( www.sherimcconnell.com). Even if you don’t want to start a business—whatever your goals are—I know you will accomplish them by reaching out to validate others and following the tips below. Enjoy the journey!

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Q: When did you realize you wanted to be a writer?
A: In college, but it took me a long time to feel I had anything to say. Sometimes I still wonder.

Q: How and when did you make this dream a reality?
A: I’ve journaled ever since high school, but I began to make my living as a writer when I became a creative director in the field of corporate multi-media about ten years ago, I wrote/created videos and promotional copy for a variety of marketing purposes. Then I began writing screenplays and plays, winning awards, but soon realized that I would have to make a much deeper commitment for either of those forms to really work. So I decided to go for novels because I could have more creative control and I had a series in mind that would occupy me for some years. It was a commitment I felt I could truly accomplish.

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Q: When did you realize you wanted to be a writer?
A: I fell into it really. I started out being a bio lab technician and gravitated to helping the post docs with their white papers. I then took the Publishing Procedures Course one summer at Radcliffe College and that’s when I knew I wanted to be in publishing. My first job was as Promotion Coordinator for the World Science Division of Addison Wesley.

Q: How and when did you make this dream a reality?
A: After years of writing promo copy and brochures, I wanted to do something more meaningful. I found the science journalism program at Boston University and found my voice writing about science.

Q: What’s the most important lesson you’ve learned so far in your writing career?
A: Allow the process to happen.

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Event Title: Tales from the Crypt: Keeping Your Book Alive… How to Breath Life in Your Book, Over and Over Again

Guest Speaker: Book promotion expert Raleigh Pinskey

Attendees will learn:

• How to write promotion and marketing into your book before it’s published
• How to keep the media interested time after time
• How to form online Strategic Relationships to further your sales
• What is a Virtual Book Tour and how does it sell books
• What to do to magnify the book’s presence
• How to creating a living experience from your subject matter
• Book promotion strategies for your website

Raleigh Pinskey’s hero is P.T. Barnum. He says, “Without promotion something terrible happens… Nothing! To avoid that terrible nothingness, book PR expert Raleigh Pinskey helps you develop your book marketing platform, filled with no–cost, low-cost ways to get your book in front of your target audience over and over again.

Raleigh Pinskey is the author of the international best selling Book Promotion Made Easy Series (available at www.PromoteYourself.com) that includes 101 Ways to Sell Your Books and Info Products on the Internet, How to Be a Celebrity While You’re Waiting to Hear From Oprah, 101 Secrets to Book Signing Magic, 101 Ways to Promote Yourself, 101 Ways to Get on Talk Shows, 101 Ways to Write Foolproof Media Releases, Now That You Have PR What do you do Next, plus many more books and CD’s designed to sell books for you.

Raleigh Pinskey is a sought after speaker on book promotion. Her presentation list includes Mark Victor Hansen’s Mega Book University, the Phoenix chapter of the NAWW, Florida Writers Association, Arizona Publishers Association, Wizard of Words Conference, The Harrison’s Radio TV Interview Reports Summit, John Kremer, and Self Publisher guru Dan Poynter; teleseminars for Ariel Ford, Joan Stewart, and Book University’s Lori Prokop.

Note: Call-in information is on your member login page. If you do not have your password, e-mail us at support@naww.org

If you are not an NAWW member yet, find out more about NAWW Membership Benefits by clicking here: naww.org/blog/benefits

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