Saturday, September 6, 2008

Moving toward happiness at work - update re the book

Yesterday I received a lovely email from Wendy - a lady in Nelson who was the very first person in the world to ever put in an order for the book. Wendy has given me permission to share our correspondence:

"Hi Cassandra
Quite a while ago I placed an order for your book that was due to be published. Can you give me an idea of how far away it is as I have presented a ‘preview’ of the book at one of our AAPNZ, Nelson group meetings and quite a few members are asking me about it."

Here's what I replied:

"Thank you so much for your email and for your active pre-promotion of my book. Wow! I am amazed and very grateful to you for drumming up so much interest.

To be honest I was stalled a bit by the New York agent that took the near completed draft to America and asked me to stop working on it while she talked to publishers.

This agent felt that because I had put so much time into the design of the book she felt that publishers would think I was a control freak and therefore would be difficult to deal with.

I was really surprised by this comment. The design and visual elements of the book are what makes Happy@work so different from anything on the market. It is true that I would hate for "Happy@work: job hunting for mid-lifers" to be reduced to pages and pages of black and white text but I would "bow" to the publishers if I had to -assuming they know best.

Anyway this agent promised the world and delivered nothing - I pushed the publishing date back waiting for her. But now I am back on track and aim to have it finished before my birthday at the end of the month - that would make it a lovely way to celebrate both my birthday and the birth of the book. Can your members wait with me until then?"

Not only are Wendy's members happy to wait but Wendy has also agreed to review the final copy. Wendy has asked for a time line from me :) This is terrific...being accountable in the nicest possible way will motitivate me even more!"

I will be publishing regular updates on The Happy@work blog. Please left me comments to help keep me going...I would love that

Labels: Motivation, Powerful Creativity, Powerful thinking, The Book