I’m Gail Seymour, and I am the Fairy Book Mother at Power Author Program. I shepherd visionaries, leaders, and sages just like you through the process of creating their cornerstone books and building platforms to spread their messages. Because becoming an author is an empowering, liberating, and often terrifying undertaking…

Be careful what stories you tell yourself, they become your reality — Just the word excuse can be triggering I have a friend who is triggered by the word excuse. This issue crops up every so often because we are both part of a coaching program where the coach likes to hack us students and call us out on our excuses. To my friend, the word excuse includes a…

No one has time for fluff these days My mother used to tell me she couldn’t see the point in silly stories when I told her I wanted to be a writer. She wasn’t much of a writer herself. When it came to cutting out the fluff, she could have taught Hemingway a trick or two. …

Day 3 of the “Write a post every day for a year” experiment on Medium. — As I’m running a 5-Week Lead Magnet Experience course in July and August, now seems like as good a time as any to talk lead magnets. In case you’re new to the whole online marketing and funnel-building arena, a lead magnet is something you give away free or low-cost in…

Do you need to be a member of the 5 a.m. Club to be successful? — I’ve been seeing two competing schools of thought with regard to morning routines lately, which as far as I can see can’t both be right, at least not for the same person. One says you only have so much energy and focus, and that scientifically speaking, you are more productive…

Day 1: After writing 14 posts in almost 2 years on the platform, it’s time to see what this baby can do if you take it seriously. — I first posted on Medium back in September 2019 when we were still living on the boat, moored to the village pier in Korfos, Greece. I wrote a flurry of posts in a week or so, then got bored and wandered off. In 2020, I had a brief revival and…

I was wrong, we’re not post apocalypse yet. We’re still in it. — Just kidding about the thong and collar, of course. I wouldn’t wish that sight on the world. Besides, I personally find thongs of all types fit squarely in the cruel and unusual quarter of instruments of torture. It’s just that I jokingly started this year with a Facebook post that…

How the recent Facebook update broke sharing — If you switched to the new Facebook layout recently, you may have noticed a new glitch: missing thumbnails when you share a post. Debugging thumbnails has long been a thorn in the side of anyone who shares a regularly updated page. Facebook creates a cache of the page the first…

And how can I get started, too? — I’ve been making a living from ghostwriting in one form or another since 2009. While I can’t guarantee results--your mileage may vary--I’ve spoken to enough other ghostwriters over the years who took a similar path to mine to offer it as a semi-reliable plan. But first, a warning: Building a reputation as a ghostwriter can be a slow process. Partly because…